The next step in the downfall of France

First, Muslims need to reach about 5% of the population in order to start effectively agitating for more "rights."  Then after getting those rights they begin to push for further concessions in society at large, culminating in their takeover of the local political system in order to institute sharia law.  French Muslims now account for about 10% of the population, thus this next step of ousting Sarkozy and voting for those politicians friendly to the multicultural and tolerant aspects of the French immigrant society.  Paristan is closer than you think, and one day Notre Dame will be the sight of minarets and the muzzein calling the faithful to Friday prayer.

From The Washington Times April 19 by Karine G. Barzegar

‘Fed up’ French Muslims mobilize to unseat Sarkozy

PARIS — France’s Muslim community is mobilizing voters to reject President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s election to punish the conservative leader for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam rhetoric.

“[French] Muslims can’t stand it anymore. They are fed up with these debates about national identity, halal meat, the veil or fundamentalism all over the place,” said Francoise Lorcerie, a sociologist with the Institute of Studies on the Arab and Muslim World near Marseille.

“The terms [Islam, immigration and fundamentalism] are being used interchangeably, without care, with people being targeted, denigrated and used for [votes].”

The debates and rhetoric aren’t new and have been at the heart of French political campaigns for the past decade.

Muslims - especially those living in the “banlieues,” France’s poor immigrant suburbs - sometimes have been courted by candidates with promises of jobs and better living conditions, but they mostly have been stigmatized as threats to the French identity, analysts say.

The rhetoric escalated last month after Mohammed Merah, a French-born Muslim who claimed to be inspired by al Qaeda, killed seven people in a shooting spree.

Mr. Sarkozy, of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)party, called for tightening immigration because there are “too many foreigners” in France.

Marine Le Pen, the presidential candidate of the far-right National Front party, talked about “green fascism” (a reference to the color of Islam) and wondered “how many Mohammed Merahs are arriving on boats and planes each day, filling France with immigrants.”

In the banlieues

The speeches infuriated French Muslims and reignited the debate over origins and identity. As Europe’s largest Islamic community, French Muslims account for as much as 10 percent of the country’s 65 million people.

“Merah was born in France. He did not come by boat or plane, but everyone talks about his origins, despite his being French,” saidMohamed Mechmache, president of AC Le Feu, a community association working to improve conditions in the banlieues. “The French Republic has not been fair: She has forgotten some of her children.”

Mr. Mechmache says what residents of the banlieues really need are education and jobs, not a fight over Islam: The youth unemployment rate is above 45 percent in some of the neighborhoods.

Poverty causes jihad, and if more money is thrown at the problem then radicalism will wither and die.  Nothing is said about the texts and tenets of Islam, the Qur'an and how it is used regularly to justify jihad and the subjugation of women and non-Muslims, no mention of mosques preaching hatred of the infidel and the takeover of non-Muslim societies through sharia law and no journalists or media pundits are asking what actions are being taken by the Muslim communities to identify and root out jihadists and Islamists in their midst.  With this level of willful blindness Islam has conquered a great nation through the subtle use of internal mechanisms.  America is next.

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