Posted by Stuka on Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:18 | #

Bring it on (as Bush would say)! The more clashes (like the one in Paris) that occur, the better. It’ll bring things to a head.

Incidentally, was the counter-protest in Paris a spontaneous attack by Arabs and Negroes, or was it a planned and organized assault? I wonder… If the latter, then perhaps it can be seen as one of the first skirmishes in the coming race war in France & Europe.

Posted by Drew Fraser on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 02:59 | #

Most leftists would react to Muslim attacks on white Europeans with a plea for understanding. The alienation of second-generation migrant youth is, of course, a consequence of racism and intolerance in the host society. 

This sort of blanket exculpation is immune to attack on empirical grounds. The hard-core left can still depend upon the useful idiots in Australian churches and the legal profession to do whatever is necessary to promote the refugee industry.  The “educated” classes in Oz regularly fall all over themselves in their anxiety to display tolerance and compassion towards “asylum seekers” being held in mandatory detention.

This week’s most absurd illustration of the mutually reinforcing (and dangerous) incoherence of the courts and the churches in their sanctification of the Refugee Convention came with the news that around 50 Iranian detainees (whose previous claims to refugee status have been rejected as unfounded) have converted to Christianity and now fear persecution as apostates should they be sent back to Iran.

The churches are now seeking the converts they cannot find in mainstream Australian society in the immigration detention centres. There, they can offer a sort of secular salvation in the form of another ground for appeal in the endless round of taxpayer-funded litigation. 

The possibility that self-interest rather than deep religious conviction might be a factor in such conversions is dismissed by church leaders who insist that their missionary efforts are accompanied by strict and effective quality control measures.  It is not known what action, if any, they would recommend should their converts return to the Muslim fold once their permanent resident status in Oz is secured.

Fortunately, the Immigration minister seems unlikely to rush into pledging support for Muslim apostates-recognizing that such a move would stimulate even more Islamic hostility towards Oz. But the courts are another matter; they might be willing to rule in favour of such creatures so long as their blessing extended to detainees converting to other religions as well. Certainly, international law has established the general rule that there can be no limits to the competitive altruism of Western man!

Posted by Mark Richardson on Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:26 | #

Unfortunately, Drew is probably right. If the casseurs are into bashing the French, the left will probably blame it on the “institutional racism” of French society, or the lack of opportunity for immigrant youth or some such thing.

Still, they say that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality, and the casseurs represent a pretty serious and straightforward mugging of liberals by reality, so maybe it will lead to a rethink by at least a few French liberals. We’ll see.