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Photo taken by Nahel Besançon in Planoise, France on June 29.
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The French Mistake
I’m only going to focus on one story this week because it seems compelling and significant enough to drown out everything else that happened. Since it bears the ominous potential to metastasize into something even more far-reaching, it may become the story of the year. Or decade. Or century.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should confess that I bear some poisonous anti-French confirmation bias. I was raised with the impression that I am of partially French ancestry (my paternal grandmother’s maiden name was Ila Ducharme), and early results from 23andme said that my saliva sample revealed DNA that was about 5-6% French and German in origin. (For some reason, they don’t distinguish between French and German, just like they can’t seem to tell the difference between English and Irish.) But more recent results based on the same little glass vial of spit I sent them have eliminated the French/German in favor of Spanish/Portuguese. If it turns out that I’m not French, not even un peu, I’m okay with that, and here’s why.
In September 1969, my oldest brother was murdered in Paris on the night of his arrival. His killer was never found, but the unreasonable reason that I bear an incurable animosity toward the French is that they extorted the modern equivalent of $12,500 from our family to send us his corpse back in lieu of simply dumping it like garbage somewhere in France. Although they shipped his cadaver back along with several documents allegedly certifying that he’d been autopsied and embalmed, he arrived at the Philadelphia International Airport in a wooden box containing the bloodied suit in which he’d been stabbed to death. His corpse was in an active state of decomposition.
I was only eight when that happened, and I’ve been fortunate enough to live much longer than my brother did, but one of the bitterest yet most enduring lessons I’ve learned during my time on this planet is that it’s almost always a mistake to apologize. Since I think that people are animals rather than “spiritual” beings, they tend to view apologies as acts of submission, which leads them to smell weakness and thirst for your blood.
Speaking of submission, the Arabic word “Islam” literally means “submission.” In theological terms, it refers to the act of submission toward God, but since I’ve never seen any hard evidence of Allah’s existence, in practical terms it seems to refer to the act of submission toward Muslims.
Since I believe that it’s always a mistake to apologize, I think that the biggest mistake the French ever made was the huge post-colonial blunder of not only apologizing to their former Northern African vassal states such as Morocco and Algeria, but inviting the overwhelmingly Islamic residents of these sunburnt shitholes into France while naïvely expecting that all would be forgiven and everyone would get along.
For starters, it’s not as if France and the Islamic world don’t have grudges going all the way back to the 700s, when Charles “The Hammer” Martel beat back Muslim forces in the Battle of Tours and Charlemagne clashed endlessly with the Moors who’d conquered Spain. It’s not as if African Barbary pirates didn’t raid the French coast and enslave countless French men, women, and children for about 250 years starting in the 1500s.
In the post-colonial era, aggravated and enabled by France’s 1968 Marxist student riots, vengeful Muslims have raised holy hell in the 2005 riots and 2009 riots, both of which were conflagrations that rocked the nation in the wake of non-indigenous Muslim yoofs who died either while fleeing police or in police custody.
Then there was 2015’s Charlie Hebdo shooting. And the same year’s Bataclan massacre. And the 2020 beheading of a schoolteacher who’d been either intrepid or foolish enough (pick one) to show his students the cartoons that sparked the Charlie Hebdo slaughter.
The French Mistake was to think that any multicolored society could ever be colorblind.
If “Nahel Merzouk” doesn’t sound like a French name, that’s because it isn’t. Although he was born in France in 2006, he was Algerian by blood. He was raised by a single mother whose mating partner allegedly fled the coop before young Nahel was born. A pizza delivery boy who’d dropped out of school, Nahel was said to have been a fan of motorcycles, rugby, and rap music. Although a wee sapling of only 17, he had notched an impressive 15 incidents on his judicial file, including driving without insurance and using false license plates. In January and March of this year, he’d been arrested for the sale and consumption of narcotics. He’d tallied up five police checks for refusing to comply with police orders to stop since 2021. On the weekend before his last — and fatal — encounter with police, he’d reportedly been detained for another instance of refusing to comply with a police order to stop.
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It’s unclear whether he’d ever been officially charged with driving without a license. But since one needs to be 18 in France to legally drive a car, during all of the other traffic-related infractions he’d also repeatedly committed the crime of driving without a license. In essence, he was committing a crime every time he drove a car.
As a man who at least likes to pretend to have an open mind, I’ll allow for the possibility that of all the high-profile police killings of civilians that led to endlessly slanted publicity and violent mayhem far out of proportion to whatever happened in the initial incident, at least one of them involved a victim who was wise enough not to resist arrest. I can’t think of one, but I’ll allow the possibility that someone, somewhere was killed by police without resisting arrest.
I’ve had guns pulled on me twice — once when a black dude near a Greyhound station in Center City Philadelphia shoved a snub-nosed revolver in my gut and demanded all my money, and the other when a Portland cop snuck up and held a pistol to my temple as I was sitting in a rental car. Although I am sometimes impetuous and flighty, on neither of these occasions did I think it was a wise idea to struggle or flee.
According to the public prosecutor in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, last Tuesday morning a pair of motorcycle cops espied a Mercedes-Benz with a Polish license plate traveling over the speed limit in a bus lane. The pair of cops instructed the car’s driver to stop at a red light. Rather than complying, he ran the red light. At some point during the pursuit, police say the driver endangered a cyclist and a pedestrian. When a traffic snag eventually forced the driver to stop, the police got off of their motorcycles, pointed guns at the driver, and commanded him to turn off his engine.
Nahel Merzouk was the car’s driver. He also had two passengers along for the ride. According to one of the passengers, one of the cops told Merzouk, “Don’t move or I’ll put a bullet in your head.”
An observer filmed the incident from what appears to be an apartment window at least 30 feet from the car. The film’s perspective is from the passenger’s side, so the car is largely blocking one’s view of the police. One of the cops is clearly pointing a gun into the car. What can be seen is that the car pulls away from the cops. What can be heard is a gunshot and then a honking sound, which is allegedly what happened when Merzouk fell forward onto the car’s horn after being shot.
According to the unnamed gendarme who shot Merzouk, he did it in self-defense, fearing that that young Algerian pizza-delivery boy was going to run him over. From what I can discern after viewing the video, this was a lie. Since he was standing near the driver’s window when the car lurched forward, he was in no danger of being run over. He has been arrested and is facing preliminary charges of “voluntary homicide by a person in authority.”
According to an unnamed passenger in the car, Merzouk had been repeatedly bludgeoned in the head by one or both of the policemen’s guns before pulling away in fear. This, too, appears to be a lie based on what I can see from the video.
There are a lot of liars out there. You learn that quickly when you have to sift between fact and fiction in criminal cases. I suppose that’s the reason we have trials in the first place, because if accusers never lied, there’d be no reason for trials.
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Compounding the fact that everyone seems to lie is the fact that regardless of the truth, people seem to believe whatever they want to believe. I suppose that’s the reason why, as of this writing, France has been burning for six days.
Nahel’s mother, Mounia Merzouk, told a local TV station that the officer who shot her son “saw a little Arab-looking kid, and he wanted to take his life.” On TikTok, which is possibly the dumbest of all the dumb social-media sites, she openly called for “a revolt for my son.” And boy, what a revolt she got. A truly revolting revolt.
Leaping to judgment without the slightest apparent regard for truth or responsibility, French President Emmanuel Macron called the shooting “inexcusable and unforgivable.” He said the death of the little underage lawbreaker “moved the entire nation.” On Wednesday night, while the nation was burning, Macron was fiddling away at an Elton John concert. He eventually blamed social media for helping to fan the flames, claiming that violent footage “sparks a form of copycat violence,” opining that “[w]e sometimes get the feeling that some of them live out in the street the video games that have intoxicated them,” and demanding that social-media providers remove the “most sensitive” content.
To their credit, the French police are not taking Macron’s “lay down and let them pee on me” approach. On Friday, Alliance Police Nationale and the Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes (UNSA), two of France’s largest police unions that, combined, represent roughly half of all French police, issued a very spicily worded joint statement:
It’s enough!
Facing these savage hordes, asking for calm is no longer enough, IT MUST BE IMPOSED!
Restoring the Republican order and putting the apprehended beyond the capacity to harm others must be the only political signal to give.
In the face of such exactions, the police family must stand together.
Our colleagues, like the majority of citizens, can no longer bear the tyranny of these violent minorities.
The time is not for union action, but for combat against these ‘pests’.
Surrendering, capitulating, and pleasing them by laying down arms are not the solutions in light of the gravity of the situation.
All means must be put in place to restore the rule of law as quickly as possible.
Once restored, we already know that we will relive this mess that we have been enduring for decades.
For these reasons, Alliance Police Nationale and UNSA Police will take their responsibilities and warn the government from now on that at the end, we will be in action and without concrete measures for the legal protection of the Police, an appropriate penal response, significant means provided, the police will judge the extent of the consideration given.
Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will be in resistance and the government will have to become aware of it.
Rioters rammed a car into the house of Vincent Jeanbrun, mayor of the southern Parisian suburb of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, before setting it on fire Saturday night. On Sunday, Jeanbrun tweeted:
Last night, a milestone was reached in horror and ignominy. My home was attacked and my family was the victim of an assassination attempt. My determination to protect and serve the Republic is greater than ever. I will not back down. #PasPourRien #Emeutes
I was able to snag some riot footage from Twitter on Saturday and compile it into this 18-minute video. Since we’re talking about the Internet here, and I’m a one-man news bureau, I cannot and will not vouch for any of its authenticity, but it seems as if a general picture emerges of a nation on the edge of losing its grip:
You can see rioters sawing down light poles. Burning down schools, buses, police stations, and town halls. Looting stores. Shooting at police. Openly toting assault rifles in a country that does not permit citizens to own them.
This does not appear to be your normal riot. Riots are more haphazard. This looks more like a war with organized, gun-toting jihadists clad in black and ready to wreak vengeance against an ancient enemy — on enemy soil. Why, it’s almost as if they were waiting for this to happen.
The following days and weeks will determine whether it explodes into a full-blown French Civil War . . . and whether it spreads into a continental war between a softened West and a radical global Islamic ummah that the West was foolish enough, in the name of tolerance, to invite as their ungrateful houseguests.
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58 comments
Shooting someone driving a vehicle in a chase from police is an attempt to prevent serious bodily injury of innocent pedestrians. I don’t think the officer did anything wrong and if the kids name was Pierre we’d never have heard of it
I agree. I could not tell from the video exactly when the gun was fired but it clearly shows the one officer being pushed by the vehicle when the driver made a break for it. The officer was lucky that he did not end up under one of the wheels. As far as I’m concerned, the swarthy street punk got his just desserts. One day this video clip will be set to the music of Remove Kebab in 8-bit MIDI.
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@Jimgoad,
I take issue with your take on the cop’s story. It is entirely plausible that he was in fear of being run over and the benefit of the doubt should go to the officer. He absolutely could have been run over if Nahel had yanked the steering wheel toward the wall, which could have pinned the officer. This could have happened in a fraction of a second – I absolutely think the officer made the right call by shooting the young scholar.
Since he was looking in the driver’s window, the cop was already at least 8 feet past the front of the car. Unless the car could magically move directly sideways, he was in no danger of being run over.
Andrew Anglin says the rioters are acting like an army, and claims many are from ISIS, have been trained by ISIS, and are too organized to be mere youths on the loose. He noted they even broke into a zoo and freed gorillas, lions, and an elephant. Now that is echt Jim Goad stuff. Many have said this is The Camp of the Saints. I also note it’s been rumored some in the French military are demanding Macron do something, maybe like those who told Louis XVI to do something about the revolutionary mob. Louis didn’t, and his Swiss Guards were slaughtered. I wonder if the French police see this analogy.
Certainly it’s time for the Islamic “migrants” to test how much pull they have, and it appears to be happening all over Europe, while the EU and globalists keep reducing industry to be more green, and of course, the major cause is taking on Russia “for as long as it takes.” One wonders if Europe, torn apart by Islamic hordes on one hand and a U.S. demanded war on the other, are going to just fold up, and the Muslims and Uncle Shylock will carve up the pieces.
A civil war? That reminds me of my favorite saying by Clausewitz, that war is begun, not by the aggressor, but by the defender. If no one fights, then there is no war, is there? Napoleon, after all, always claimed he NEVER wanted to fight, that wars were always forced on him.
Shame Napoleon isn’t around, now. He knew how to handle a mob. I wonder if the French in uniform are thinking the same thing.
The footage of zoo animals roaming the streets is apparently from 2020.
Napoleon, after all, always claimed he NEVER wanted to fight, that wars were always forced on him.
And he was absolutely correct here. All wars against France were defensive for the French. Even “offensive” wars of Napoleon were just preventive wars. The British waged coalition wars against France, using Russian, Austrian and Prussian cannon fodder.
The West has been putting up with this for a long time and it doesn’t appear anyone in a position of authority has the will enough to stop it. Paris puts up with this every year in what is known as “Devils Night”. Brittan, Germany, and parts of Scandinavia put up with similar behavior by Muslims immigrants. During the summer of 2020 riots occurred in American cities and in London and nothing was done. The U.S. Army avoided dealing with the 2020 riots. The Generals stated that it wasn’t the responsibility of the military. Yet, the Army was used to utilized during the L.A. riots, the various riots of the 1960’s and even the draft riots of the U.S. Civil War. When politicians and the military leadership become weak and passive and sometimes side with the criminals themselves, is it any wonder that big cities are facing a policing shortage and the military is having a recruiting crisis?
The French have a reputation of being pompous assholes and snobs and they do well when restricting English and American culture in their country. However, they have become no match for Islam and Non-White identity.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that you would ask a random person, “What city and country would you like to travel to?” They would give you dewy and wistful look and say, “Paris, France.” Hmm, not so much these days. I have nothing much to add on this downer story, other than the endless irony of immigrants clamoring to illegally enter a country, then misbehave, then complain about how bad it is.
No one seems to have the “Talk” anymore about having a dangerous encounter with either a police officer or a criminal holding a gun. Time does not slow down in such circumstances and the person with the gun is more likely to make a mistake, shoot, etc. if the other party behaves impulsively. If you run erratically in traffic you might be maimed by a car. The driver might be charged with manslaughter and be in the wrong, but the whole thing might have been prevented by staying on the sidewalk.
The other big news of the week was the US Supreme Court ruling that Harvard and UNC could not use affirmative action in admissions decisions. How will the Left and colleges will behave in response? College deans are making pronouncements that they love diversity and they will be sure to have diversity, etc. I imagine some of them are wary of how competitive it is to get the best students, and are quietly welcoming some loosening of affirmative action pressure. There will be new proxies for affirmative action, like attracting low income students from certain zip codes. We will see how that works for the hollers of West Virginia. And will this have repercussions for affirmative action pressures in every other sphere of life, like over-representation in the media? As next generation Hispanic children are being raised to speak English, they will want their cut of affirmative action in the coming years.
The Supreme Court decision will not likely affect Athletics team recruitment too deeply, as there is still some meritocracy there. But lets not forget the 2014 UNC athletics scandal, in which players were offered kush-y GPA boosting classes, about 200 of them from the African American Studies department. Students would have no classwork, just write a term paper with no professor (who apparently was still paid for the class). Language requirements could be satisfied by a Swahili class in which no Swahili was used in the term paper. English apparently fared no better, as 10% of athletes were reading at the 3rd grade level. On the up side, 60% read at 4th to 8th grade proficiency.
Very well-informed report. Two elements to complete it. First, the bullet that killed the driver went through his arm before reaching the thorax. Second, difficult to see it in the video, but there was a concrete wall just behind the policemen and they could have been crushed against it.
I don’t think the invader’s fifth column is quite ready yet to take on the French state, drug trafficking, robberies, French government subsidies and the rest afford them a comfortable life. Why lose all of this, even for Allah and a thousand virgins? But this is just a matter of time, that war, which is a continuation of the Algerian war, will come.
Immigrants were encouraged by the right to come to settle in France to provide cheap labour and by the left to obtain votes.
As for “La France éternelle”, I don’t know where it has gone.
As for “La France éternelle”, I don’t know where it has gone.
You should ask the “revolutionaries” of 1789, but it’s too late.
Looks like this darling is being propped up as the French version of St. Floyd, except without a lethal flake of fentanyl in the tailpipe. The police union memo is very encouraging, though. They’re not going to take any guff from those types. As for Macron, he has no popular mandate and is a hair’s breadth from being unemployed.
Macron represents 20 to 25% of the electorate, he has indeed no popular mandate. But who cares, like Biden, Trudeau and the rest of them he can do whatever he pleases. Most media in France are under the indirect control of the state; a fortnight before any election this steamroller goes on brainwashing all and sundry. Furthermore, in a more discreet way than in the US or Venezuela, the elections are rigged. As for Macron, far from renouncing the Presidency he wants to keep on working for the Rothschilds and is looking for ways to adapt the constitution so as to be able to get a third mandate.
If Macron wants, then of course he can continue to act like a dictator. He can continue to do things that enrage most of the public. The problem for him is that actions like these might lead him straight to the Place de la Concorde, if you know what I mean. I’m not advocating; I’m just observing.
Yes, it might happen.
I forgot. When the death of the delinquent at the hand of a vile policeman was announced, all the French Congressmen present in l’Assemblée Nationale stood up for a minute of silence as if an earthquake had destroyed half of Europe.
That is an amazing inversion of values – a minute of silence for a career criminal after he was justly shot dead. They condemn the police for doing their job correctly, and let the criminals go free.
These French politicians are brainwashed degenerates. Other Western countries are the same, unfortunately.
Not only that, but they have hate speech laws. They also refuse to mention the race of criminal suspects in media reports.
(For some reason, they don’t distinguish between French and German, just like they can’t seem to tell the difference between English and Irish.)
The same for me (6% “German and French” and 83% “British and Irish”).
Go figure.
I like the attitude of the French police unions (APN and UNSA). It’s better than the useless reaction of the French government, but it’s not enough. The events in France are not just riots – it’s a race war, planned in advance by the Algerians. An alien race seeks to conquer France and destroy it. They are burning it down, and killing its people. The media censor the news, and blame the French people for “racism”.
I want France to win, but the only way they can do that is to get serious. Who opened the borders, to let in these enemy aliens? Disloyal Jews, that’s who – in France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the USA, Canada, Australia, etc. In the USA, the (((Biden regime))) has opened the borders, deliberately to destroy the country. Alejandro Mayorkas has encouraged this invasion, and Jewish money is financing it.
On Friday, I was sitting at a table in a local café, and the small group of (European White) people next to me were discussing the riots in France. One of them said (paraphrased here): “But they shot the boy; he didn’t deserve death.” Another responded, with contempt in his voice, “I don’t care if he was innocent or not. I don’t care if he deserved it or not. Deport or execute.” (That last line is not paraphrased– those were his exact words.)
This was in a very “progressive” and Jewish area. I don’t know if these people were themselves “progressives,” but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were. Maybe seeing a Western nation (and a highly sophisticated and cultured one) on the verge of completely breaking down is what it takes to change (some) people’s view on things. And, not only change their minds, but toughen up. “Deport or execute.” I was heartened, for a moment.
To my mind, what is going on in France is organized, not just planned, and not spontaneous. I think the death of a stupid juvenile delinquent who wasn’t even French was an occasion, not a motive, like the BLM and Antifa outbreak after the death of St. Floyd (when, suddenly, but right on cue, there were blocks of bricks and rioters in every major U.S. city to protest the passing of an exemplary Black man). The purpose of that summer of mayhem was to send a warning to the general public: “don’t fight us or we will use people to destroy you.” It worked.
But, what is happening in France seems like it is part of a bigger operation. It feels like it is more than just a warning to the citizenry. Like someone in Paris got a phone call and was told to open the zoo gates and let the animals loose now to do their thing, and I don’t mean lions and zebras. From what I can tell, a lot of these beasts have weapons, real weapons, not bricks, and they are using them. The looting is secondary.
I think whatever happens in France next will reverberate on the Continent. How could it not? If the video of that man getting his hands hacked off is genuine, people will react and respond. This is a whole other level of civil unrest than what we had in 2020. That poor man wasn’t deplatformed or fired or cancelled or robbed or had his store burned to the ground or was shot dead. His hands were hacked off. While Macron and his wife danced at an Elton John concert. I hope the French are dusting off the guillotines and sharpening the blades. I hope.
I have been trying to find productive things to do this holiday weekend, but my mind keeps returning to our own future here in the U.S.. I think very bad things are going to happen here in the U.S. between now (this summer) and the 2024 election, if we even have another election. In my opinion, there is no way our foreign leaders will permit either Donald Trump or RFK Jr to be “elected” President. I think they have other things in store for us. Far worse things than BLM and Antifa.
I don’t want to celebrate Independence Day tomorrow. I just don’t feel there’s anything to celebrate. I don’t recognize this country anymore. I hate it. I am in the same mood as that guy at the progressive lunch table.
“I don’t want to celebrate Independence Day tomorrow. I just don’t feel there’s anything to celebrate. I don’t recognize this country anymore. I hate it. ”
you are not alone.
I agree, there seems to my mind something farcically anachronistic about celebrating American “Independence” in 2023. Sure, it’s a nice idea, but it would be like Scotsmen celebrating Scottish Independence when the Kingdom of Scotland was ended over three hundred years ago. America, likewise, was captured by enemies long ago.
Same here. My son and I looked at the flags everywhere and were wondering what they even stand for today.
”Freedom” didn’t spring to mind.
I am sure my proud, fearless, and noble Maghrebian brothers will not disappoint me, and teach those infidels a lesson or two. Start a civil war brothers, not just in France, but all over Europe, and show those Marxist, globalist, corrupt left wing imbecillic traitors what kind of vipers they’ve been spoiling in their bosoms for many decades, for the sake of their imperial infrastructure and it’s perks for the elites. Show that to the whole world to see. Keep up the good work, Allahu Akbar !.
I too have an unsavory personal history with the French and I’m actively trying to go back there asap to take care of unfinished business. What irks me about this is how unaware people are to who these people are. There are hardly any visible mosques in France. I didn’t realize this even after living there for 3 months. It’s because of French law that only the Catholic Churches are prominent. So these rioters are not ‘jihadists.’ This is not religious. It is like the Northern Ireland conflict: ethnic, yet advertised with a sectarian facade. These are secularized Arab youths. Flashback a few weeks ago, there was a Syrian Christian attacking French children and a black African attacking a grandmother and her granddaughter. Nothing to do with Islam. We don’t need another ‘crusade’ or ‘war on abstractions’ to divert us back into Zionist geopolitics when we know exactly who the enemy is. They don’t work besides slinging drugs to indigenous Frenchmen and pimping indigenous Frenchwomen, while living on welfare. The blacks are co-signing these riots because it is what they usually initiate themselves. These are the most materialistic people on earth. Look how assimilated that little bastard’s mom is. She almost passes for a Frenchwoman. So many of them don’t even speak Arabic anymore. So assimilation is not the issue. It’s multiculturalism. These people don’t belong here and they can go back. There is plenty of precedent for wholesale repatriation. My ex’s grandmother is a Pied Noir, which means ‘black foot’ (born in Algeria), but then had to relocate back to the mainland along with a million other French/Spanish settlers, half a million Sephardic Jews and half a million Arab mercenaries during the 1961 Algerian Revolution. The Paris police chief is a Spanish Pied Noir, as was Albert Camus, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and many others. That’s how recent and relevant a mass colonization/repatriation is.
So these rioters are not ‘jihadists.’ This is not religious.
WATCH: Mob shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ during riots in France after teen shot by police
I was unaware that there’s some kind of unwritten law that dictates if it’s ethnic, it can’t possibly also be religious.
@Jim Goad
Anyone can shout “Allahu Akbar”.
So what? What does that prove?
If anyone massacres innocent bystanders while screaming “White Power” or “For my people”. Would I be justified in claiming that this is just a consequence of White solidarity and mobilization and, therefore, the whole scheme is inherently murderous and evil?
It is laziness to approach this issue from the “counter-Jihad” angle just as it would also be laziness and intellectual dishonesty to caricatures native, White anger against this mayhem as “neo-colonialism”, “racism”, “white supremacism” etc.
One doesn’t go to the ADL or SPLC to learn about White Nationalism. One comes to platforms like Counter-Currents for that.
Likewise, when it comes to Islam, it too should be judged by its primary sources not according to the conduct of some XYZ punk.
P.S.: Sorry to read about your elder brother. May he rest in peace.
Anyone can shout “Allahu Akbar”.
So what? What does that prove?
It establishes that the guy who said “This is not religious” was wrong. It’s at least partially religious. I thought that was clear and didn’t need further clarification. Otherwise, your forays into “Does that prove the entire religion is inherently evil?” constitute overreach and overkill. If a white guy shot up a group of nonwhites while shouting “white power!” it would be at least partially racial rather than a blanket indictment of white nationalism. Holy hell, why does everyone seem to be in kindergarten when it comes to basic logical principles?
Islam, and any religion that posits that a perfect God is perpetually enraged at a world he created and over which he has total control, is stupid. I never use the word “evil,” and here’s why. Otherwise, as-salamu alaykum.
It isn’t Islam. It’s Arabs, Africans and the rest of them. Islam is an abstraction successfully used by a certain tribe to obfuscate the issue. Bosnians and Albanians are not a threat to Europe besides dragging NATO into the Balkans despite being predominately Islamic. I can’t believe you’re falling for this neocon again trick after all these years. This would be like saying you’re Catholic because you’re of Irish origins and wants you’re advocating his for a new Christendom because you’re against Islam. That actually isn’t entirely wrong though because I’m sure you’re not against the secular Catholic society that France has. Nobody goes to church anymore, yet their cathedrals are still on display and protected. These Arabs are not religious in the slightest. I’ve lived there. They are just anti-white. The women don’t even wear hijabs. It’s a race war. That’s like saying BLM is a black Baptist war against white Lutheranism.
It isn’t Islam. It’s Arabs, Africans and the rest of them.
I’m pretty sure I already covered the “they’re not mutually exclusive” concept in an earlier post. I also mentioned race several times in my article with phrases such as “multicolored society,” “Algerian by blood,” “a little-Arab looking kid,” “African Barbary pirates,” references to my DNA tests, etc. Not sure why you seem so keen on misrepresenting what I wrote as focusing exclusively on Islam.
The fact that you’ve “lived there” doesn’t drown out the recorded “Allahu Akbar!” chants among the mayhem. Nor does it magically blur out the hijab-wearing woman scurrying along with looted goods at 6:45-6:49 of the video I compiled. Give it a rest.
@Jim Goad
Islam, and any religion that posits that a perfect God is perpetually enraged at a world he created and over which he has total control, is stupid.
How is that true in the case of Islam?
And, peace be upon you too, Mr. Goad.
During the so-called Euromaydan (an anti-state and anti-national Putsch, promoted by Left-Liberal EU-bureaucrats from Brussel and European ex-1968 rioters) in Ukraine in the winter of 2013-2014, the rioters when fought the police often shouted Allahu Akbar. You can think about this what you want.
The airline regulations have always been, as far as I’m aware, that human cadavers, transported for interment overseas, are to be enclosed in heremetically sealed zinc coffins.
‘Unclaimed’ human dead bodies are typically used for ‘dissection and anatomization’ in France.
This is an accordance with an ancient law which is still adhered to.
I’m NOT siding with the darky immigrant population – if I had my way they’d all be deported tomorrow. No ifs no buts no exceptions no mercy.
BUT what is forgotten here is that French capitalists invited them into France, in the boom years of the 1960s, as a source of cheap labor. There’s a moral there somewhere.
That may well be so, but from what I hear, most of them do nothing but collect welfare checks and breed. I suppose the occasional race riot is to alleviate the boredom.
On the first occasion of a European navy opening fire with lethal, deadly force on an invader boat – causing the sinking of the said boat, and the complete refusal to render aid to any drowning invaders – will I even entertain the hope of Europeans possibly prevailing in the battle for their native land.
Of course, it will *NEVER* happen.
No one ever says “Italy.”
https://youtu.be/elDUT1P07PQ?t=17
I’ve only been to Europe once—for six and a half weeks in the summer of 1985 after graduating from college. Spent the last three days in Paris before flying home from Orly airport. Arrived in Paris via an overnight train from Venice. Had spent about five days in Italy and was blown away by it. I’d been used to Philly Italians, and Italy clearly hadn’t been sending their best. In comparison to Italy, Paris looked like Cleveland.
I love Hank Scorpio.
Thanks for that clip.
Remember in England in 2011 when police in Tottenham, north London, shot and killed black criminal, Mark Duggan, that sparked the rampant criminality and rioting by yoofs? Sports clothing and tv stores were the main targets for looting. I don’t recall any book shops being broken into.
It’s the same in the USA. When the darlings go looting stores, nobody bothers plundering the Barnes & Noble.
Mark Duggan’s mother was sister to Desmond and Dominic Noonan – Manchester-based Irish traveler criminals who acted as “anti-fascist” enforcers during the 1980’s to early 2000’s; they would target anyone they thought to be involved in White Nationalism; in addition to which, they made the lives of ordinary working-class Mancunians a complete and total misery – protection rackets, etc. Desmond was stabbed to death by his own drug dealer over an unpaid debt in around 2005; Dominic – a wannabee Ronnie Kray – with a matching penchant for smooth-skinned, fresh-faced and boyish-looking youths is currently serving time at His Majesty’s Pleasure .
By the way, were Kray Bros of Jewish origin?
Yes.
Yes, the Kray twins were of Jewish and Romany background. Just look at their faces.
Thanks, I have suspected that.
Great writing as always Jim.
France is a beautiful country, it’s criminal what the globalist monsters have done to it.
The union messages are somewhat encouraging that all hope is not yet lost.
This was a very important story indeed. I do hope that you Jim, or maybe others cover this weeks ruling by our U.S. Supreme Court in regards free speech which is very beneficial for us dissidents.
The Police unions and the government are just playing good cop/bad cop. Words.
The French police are allowed to shoot motorists that may be deemed an imminent danger to the public following the Niece muslim truck attacks a while back.
The cop was acting well within the law when shooting that vicious piece of shit.
Thanks for sharing yоur thoughts about 2023 french riots.
Regards
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She’s a WN and an ethno-nationalist.
He’s a husband and a father.
She’s a dietician and a quilter.
He’s a Baptist and a plumber.
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They are Muslims and anti-white.
They want to harm us and humiliate us.
They are motivated by Islam’s mandate to conquer and by contempt for white nations.
We can learn the truth about belief systems (e.g. Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Tarvuism, paganism, communism, fascism, materialism, spiritualism, atheism, agnosticism, etc.) from considering, then accepting or rejecting in part or in whole, the observations made about them by both their proponents and their opponents.
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We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
@James Kirkpatrick
They are Muslims and anti-white.
I am a Muslim and I am not anti-White.
They want to harm us and humiliate us.
I don’t intend to harm your people and I don’t want to humiliate your people.
They are motivated by Islam’s mandate to conquer and by contempt for white nations.
I am not motivated by Islam’s “mandate to conquer” [whatever that means] and I don’t hold any contempt for White nations. My faith teaches me that human races are divine signs. And White race also falls into that category.
Invariably, these barbarians end up trashing their own shitty neighborhoods. You don’t see them torching the Palace of Versailles or storming the Château de Chambord. The French National Police typically are geared up with military level equipment and make the usual chubby street beat cops in the USA look like Barney Fife with a hangover. They wouldn’t cotton to a bunch of urine colored sheep herders throwing rocks at the Pyramide du Louvre or trashing other historical treasures. Best let them destroy their own ghettos and protect the nice areas. They aren’t smart enough not to merde où tu manges.
Real French aren’t remotely as “woke” as how the media agenda suggests we Americans are, or should be, here in the USA. Some of the best jokes I’ve heard were told by Frenchmen. Such gems as, “How long does it take an Arab woman to drop a turd? Nine months!” or “How do you get an Arab woman pregnant? You jack off on the ground and let the flies do the rest!” Or interesting insights like “eating like a Jew” where you are off in a corner eating by yourself.
Arabs in Europe are similar to blacks in the USA with a few differences. Still stupid, they may possess possibly ten more IQ points than their deeper Saharan brethren. This allows for their crime to be a bit more creative, yet they still have violent tendencies. They are typically less physically intimidating than USA blacks, yet this is offset by adhering to a crazy violent desert religion. So rather than chimping out at Popeye’s because of some perceived slight by an employee, maybe they are planning some crazy jihad event?
Doubtless these recent events in France can only strengthen Marine Le Pen and the Front National and make other countries re-think their immigration tolerance. La France c’est pour les français!
Mr. Goad, that story about your brother ripped my heart clean out of my chest. Just like what’s happening in France right now. God help us all.
I have a habit of sending emails to the French Embassy in Washington. Astonishingly, none have so far been answered.
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