It just never ends . Just pulled up my work email a couple of seconds ago and saw some info outlining this. Can't link the email but this is the incident:
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It just never ends . Just pulled up my work email a couple of seconds ago and saw some info outlining this. Can't link the email but this is the incident:
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Their religion , their God is not mine.
I've lived in Paris for the last decade. To me the only surprising thing about this event is that it didn't happen sooner and it wasn't much worse.
There are substantial Arab, Jewish and African black populations in the city and many of your average (white) French don't like it. The fact is that racial tensions here are very real and fairly widespread. There's no doubt that the radicals have behaved monstrously but a lot of French people (at least here in Paris) think it's quite entertaining to make disgusting jokes and racial slurs about non-white French, among others, not to mention flaunting outright racial hatred as if it were something to be proud of. At the end of the day a non-trivial percentage of French behave as if most (if not all) "foreigners" are filthy, unwanted invaders and the cause of all their problems. Sure, we've all heard about this kind of crap before but here it truly is a part of life, just part of the current running through the city and the country at large.
Look to the steady rise of Le Pen and the racist right for some perspective on the problem. Also look for stuff on Youtube for the kind of thing that goes on in the Paris suburbs, the banlieu, where the population is disproportionatly non-white and immigrant and where unemplyment runs as high as 20%. This New Years for instance the news reported that it was "a quiet year, only 98 cars were torched". 98! Anywhere else that would be reported as a major riot but here it's just routine. Examples of these tensions pop up all over the place: in my neighbourhood, for example, a Jewish kid was kicked to death a few years ago by a gang of French and Arab high schoolers. In the offices my wife works in as a consultant staff will often tell her, in confidence of course, that this or that social ill is the fault of "le petit noir" ("the little blacks") or the Arabs or whomever. These are middle-class or upper-middle-class professionals! It's not poverty or social injustice driving their racism, not that those are excuses either.
And that racism isn't limited to Arabs or Jews or African blacks which, of course, is bad enough in itself. My wife and I are as white as it gets and we get a fair amount of it ourselves, from all sides. For me it's just anti-foreigner stuff but for her the verbal abuse is often sexual which makes it doubly hard to deal with. Either way it's not fun and it never stops. We've been watching the situation worsen for years and have been fully expecting something, somewhere to blow.
This is why I say the recent attack isn't much of a surprise: to us it seems more-or-less to be expected because the root causes of that kind of thing are everywhere, every day here. And the French government is no help. They are nowhere to be seen: the general approach seems to be to leave it to people on the street to sort it out for themselves. In an economically difficult environment challenged with rising unemplyment and laced with racial tension that seems a particularly short-sighted approach to the problem.
Murderous loonies.
Murderous loonies.
I'm far from an expert on this but I have been reading heavily over the past few days.
Its worth noting this isn't the first time this company has been targeted, in 2011 their offices were bombed. After that they were warned by the French Government to cool down, and be careful what they publish.
The papers argument was freedom of speech/expression which is something I strongly agree with. We should not be told what we can and cannot say, believe, or write. But the clue is in the name "Extremists" If you poke them, ridicule their beliefs, they will kill, with no remorse.
You can't fix crazy.
RIP.
The problem is not the bunch of white people trying to solve the problem by voting for radical political parties, that's a natural cause-effect reaction (see: history). The problem is white people who thought multiculturalism was a good idea and then opened the borders to a massive amount of foreigners with different cultures/ideas/ways of life; people that had no intention whatsoever to live the way that the French people (ie: the West) live.
They fucked up. UK is next. Then Australia, Canada and the rest of the Western world will follow.
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