France Up In Flames Again

La diversité est notre force!

In case you don’t understand one of the world’s most beautiful languages, the French sentence above means “diversity is our strength.” It’s a common sentiment expressed by officials of countries foolishly allowing themselves to be swamped by incompatible “migrants.” Evidence that the current policy is an error is readily dismissed, all in the name of diversity. Because diversity, according to the left, is inherently good — no matter what.

And so, as not infrequently happens, France has been getting a good, hard serving of the fruits of said diversity, delivered in the form of nationwide riots and anarchy. According to multiple sources, the majority of the rioters come from 2nd- and 3rd-generation “migrant” families. That’s not an easy thing to verify, but we can certainly see global representation just from watching the footage. In any case, it seems that France’s diverse youth are upset about what they perceive as shortcomings in the nation’s schools and education system. Namely, overcrowded schools, a shortage of teachers, deteriorating buildings and exhausting school days.

Exhausting school days? Their youthful energy for rioting and mayhem seems rather inexhaustible. The whole country has, after all, gone up in flames in a matter of days. They’ve done more marching around, back and forth, to and fro, in clashes with police than Napoleonic armies of yore. Perhaps it’s just more invigorating to riot than it is to buckle down with the books, particularly when the school buildings are “deteriorating” dangerously. Though I'm sure how burning the building down was deemed the solution to that problem.

But don’t be fooled. This is not about schools or education. It might have been in the beginning, when protests began weeks ago, but it’s since been glommed onto and hijacked by communists, anarchists and Islamists in their unholy alliance to bring down la République française. In a weak-kneed and sissified country as France, it shouldn’t be all that difficult.

In watching this on television, it appears that police might be overly concerned about the possibility of hurting the rioters. This kinda sorta hinders their ability to regain control of the streets. Such reluctance to risk hurting people, even as those people are destroying cities — and for that matter, the foundation of a civilization — does not bode well for the West. That kind of prissiness in the face of anarchy won't hold up very well.

So let’s see now... Mobs of rampaging youth; fires set everywhere; cars, buses and even fire engines smashed up and burned; schools ransacked and burned; people assaulted; police injured; a woman’s face burned by a rioter’s homemade flamethrower. Just another day in a modern welfare state that worships diversity and still somehow fails to quell mass discontent.

In between acts of gratuitous violence and destruction, the whole thing has a kind of celebratory air. The youthful participants are dancing, chanting, singing and so forth. Someone no less than Bally Bagayoko, the Muslim mayor of Saint-Denis, one of Paris’s largest suburbs, was filmed laughing and dancing as he engaged with protesting students. And why wouldn’t he be happy? The Islamic writing is on the wall; it’s only a matter of time now.

Funny: the white Marxists think that this alliance with Islam is somehow going to work out for them, too. But Islam tends to be rather insistent on its supremacy and it has no particular use for infidels beyond using them to get what it wants. After that, it will likely be au revoir.

In the meantime, the world is observing the third anniversary of the October 7th attack on Israel. Unfortunately, much, if not most, of the world inexplicably sympathizes with the barbaric perpetrators of that unspeakable massacre rather than with the victims. Such moral confusion is the ultimate consequence of the diversity/multiculturalism delusion, part of which implicitly posits that whites are oppressors and non-whites their victims. That no doubt applies as well to the hundreds of thousands of protestors/rioters in the decaying la République française where beaucoup Palestinian flags are waved amid the mayhem.

One commentator has called what’s going on in France an “intifada in the heart of Europe.” Another asked if France is now in need of its own “two-state solution.”

Ah, well, as the French say, “c’est la vie!” That’s life. It is what it is.

Thank goodness none of what’s going on there could ever happen here!