Quote from Sam123:
"...the abject failure of the multiculturalist philosophy that disparate groups can coexist within a nation without any idea that they must share at least some basic values. The French are paying the price today for blithely assuming that France could absorb a population holding values vastly different from that of the host population without negative consequences for either...." --Excerpt from Robert Spencer's article:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20071
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ââ¦This is a result of arrogance and hubris on the part of the French for thinking their system is the best in the world, and anybody that came to it could be tamed and would live side by side with one another in a wonderful experiment to show how humanity can get along. They also thought they were buying insurance by not helping us out against Saddam in Iraqâ¦â --
ââ¦I think the French are as dirty in this as anybody can be, and they're getting their just desserts here. I'm not experiencing schadenfreude over this, because this is going to happen everywhere these people are not stood up to. The bottom line is, today France, yesterday Madrid, today France. Where next? Well, wherever nobody wants to stand up to them and wherever a nation of people thinks, "We can purchase goodwill by hating the United States," is going to find themselves in the same circumstance as happening now.â
---exerpts from Rush Limbaugh (âFrench Appeasement Results in Muslim Riotsâ â11/4/05):
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110405/content/truth_detector.guest.html
I wonder if Robert Spencer has actually ever been to France. What does he know about the values of these people? I think these people have the classic values of people who are fed up with a system in which they feel (rightly or not, it is not the question) they are left aside. I'm sure that had these people been buddhists, Robert Spencer would find some way to explain that buddhist values are not compatible with the French ones.
I fail to see the link between the Paris riots+failure of the French "system" and the war in Irak, what's this stuff about buying insurance by not helping the US in the Irak conflict...? I agree about the French system failing however, but a lot of French intellectual have pointed that out a long time ago.
France does not hate the US, France hates the current US policy in the world. So does the rest of Europe (to the exception of Poland, for some reason...) and most countries all around the world-I'm talking about public opinions, not government policy.
Bottom line, I think that these journalists were just too happy to find something wrong about France and draw conclusions as to the reasons-and just threw in the French position concerning Irak. Not very serious journalism. But hey, you get the same type of stupid articles in France about the US; not in mainstream newspapers though, rather in trotskyite or communist newspapers (only in some, not all hard left wing journalists are idiots).
