Nidra Poller är en amerikansk
författare och journalist. Bosatt
i Frankrike sedan 70-talet. Ett
alltmera islamiserat Frankrike
”präglat av islamiskt judehat,
förakt mot västerländska
värden och annat anti-socialt
beteende förstärkt av religiös
fanatism…”
East Quarterly skildrar hon den
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A process described by some as the
Islamization of
the failure of Europeans to integrate
Muslim immigrants, has reached a
breaking point in
One of the most troubling mani-
festations of this discord is the
development of a particular type
of violence that is more than the
sum of its parts.
**
A sampling of this year's news
reports reads like a catalogue of
stomping, stabbing, shooting,
torching, and sacking; attacks on
teachers, policemen, firemen, old
ladies, and modest retirees; turf
wars, tribal fights, murder over
women, over attitude, over nothing;
dead youths, murderous youths,
bodies scattered across a national
battlefield.
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Is there a connection between the
endless series of seemingly disparate
criminal incidents and markers openly
displayed in insurrectional riots and
demonstrations—kaffiyeh face masks,
Hezbollah flags, intifada slogans,
Islamic chants?
A general French tendency to withhold
information and a deliberate decision to
avoid ethnic and religious symbols leads
to white noise coverage of criminality.
Names, photos, and background
information about perpetrators, suspects,
and victims are usually suppressed,
especially those that might create a
negative image of Muslims.
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Yet there is ample evidence that
immigration has brought specifically
Islamic antipathy to Jews, contempt
for Western values, and other anti-
social attitudes reinforced by religious
zeal and aggravated by the clash
between an authoritarian family structure
and permissive French society.
Many second and third generation,
French-born Muslims, anxious to
separate themselves from a "French"
identity they reject, are no less
vulnerable to these influences than
recent immigrants.
A supposedly reassuring "it's not
the end of a report about a lawless
neighborhood adds to the confusion.
In fact, it is not Chicago but more
like
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