France Has Two Choices - Civil War or Submission

This is pretty much how I see it

Paul Weston

Paul Martin Laurence Weston is a British politician, chairman of Liberty GB, parliamentary candidate, and member of the Pegida UK leadership team. Wikipedia

In the aftermath of the Bataclan theatre massacre in 2015, President Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS. In the aftermath of the Islamic carnage in Nice, Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS. In the aftermath of the Islamic attack on the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray and the beheading of Father Jacques Hamel, President Hollande declared France was at war with ISIS. 

What strange times we live in. Hollande cannot declare war on ISIS because ISIS is not just some foreign power in far-away lands which can be bombed from the air with impunity. ISIS is Islam and Islam is in France. Islam is in Paris and Marseilles. Like a rapidly expanding virus, Islam has invaded France and is attacking the racial base, the cultural base, the spiritual base and the political base of the host country itself.


Bataclan 14 Nov.2015

So Hollande’s war is a myth, which is hardly surprising. After all, what is he realistically able to do? Invade Paris and level the banlieues? Build internment camps and lock up everyone with a beard? Hollande knows he is on difficult ground here, as can be gleaned from his following abject statement: “we must fight this war by all means, while respecting the rule of law, what (sic) makes us a democracy.”

In other words, the plump, jowly, bespectacled, soft-handed Hollande intends to take a small plastic knife into a fight against a muscular, fanatical opponent toting an AK-47 - with all too predictable results. France, like so much of the West these days, finds itself in a no-win situation. Our ruling elites have allowed a supremacist people and a violently supremacist culture into our peaceful liberal democracies and are now surprised to discover this was-not-really-a-very-good-idea-and-cannot-be-solved-by-mouthing-liberal-platitudes-alone….

Some of us have pointed out the foolishness in allowing the barbarian 7th century to jump into bed with the advanced 21st century, but we failed to make much headway. In point of fact, we were cast into the wilderness allocated for the dissident class of racists, xenophobes and Islamophobes who thought they knew better than our illustrious Traitor Class of cowardly political careerists and media whores.

And now we in the West find ourselves in desperate trouble. The slow march of time is finally speeding up. The demographic shift is starting to make itself known. When 100,000 Muslims in France became 200,000 the end of the world was not nigh. But when today’s 6 million Muslims of France become 12 million by 2030 and 24 million by 2050 -  then the end of France becomes very much nigh indeed. And please bear in mind that a baby born today will only be 36 in 2050. This is not about something in the unimaginably distant future.

New Year’s Eve 1999 seems only yesterday. Who can ever forget the madly grinning Tony Blair and his ghastly wife coercively linking arms with the poor old Queen as they cavorted and capered their way into a new millennium of Labour party based hope and optimism; into a European Union whose glorious future was laid out under the oxymoronic EU motto of “United in Diversity”. How we laughed and cheered in the final hours of 1999! How we danced, drunk on the promise of a brave new world!

But here we are sixteen-years later in an altogether different world. A world where Islam weighs heavily on the West. A new world which started on the 11th of September 2001 and continues through to the present day beheading of Father Jacques Hamel. Where will be in another sixteen-years? If Islamic terror went from occasional stories in 2000 to constant front page news in 2016, who would rationally argue against a civil war in France by 2030? Apart from half-witted left-liberals I mean…..

Who remembers the news stories from the final decade of the 20th century? 1989/1990 gathered a lot of interest as Communism withered and crashed in Eastern Europe, but apart from that there were few horror stories about Islam. And now? Every day brings fresh stories of fresh Islamic atrocities around the world and within the West. Bombings, shootings, stabbings, rapes and sexual assaults. Again and again and again.

And after each new Islamic horror the West lights its candles, holds its vigils, clasps its Teddy Bears and buries its dead. When Hollande proclaims France is at war, he is lying. He is generating grandstanding, vainglorious soundbites. He is shouting at the pub brawler already under police arrest, long after the pub brawler broke his nose and put him firmly on his backside in the Frog & Firkin.  It is not at real war you see, because it takes two sides to make a war. One to attack and one to defend. If there are only attackers and no defenders it is not a war -  it is a massacre.

France is in desperate trouble. For all the talk of war there is no resistance. Patrick Calvar, head of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) warns of impending civil war but talks mainly of aggression coming from the right, not Islam. Hollande talks about war but never mentions the real enemy which is Islam, not ISIS. The enemy is not in Iraq or Syria. The enemy is in Paris and Marseille. The enemy is within. The enemy holds a French passport. The enemy of France is French and the enemy of France is growing exponentially.

So now we have half the French army patrolling the streets of France during peacetime. But it’s not really peacetime is it? France is under attack but is not at war. Without a defined enemy there cannot be a war, only a long, drawn out massacre as I have already said.

The descent of post-Christian France into Islamic France will take decades, but if there is no resistance, Islamic it will become. Islam by a thousand cuts is perhaps the best way of understanding France’s future. Prime Minister Valls has stated French people must get used to living with terrorism. I don’t think he said Islamic terrorism, just plain old terrorism, which rather goes to show just how successful Islamic terrorism is....

Can France be saved? It can, but it would mean removing Islam from the public life. It would mean closing down the mosques. It would mean deportation. French Muslims in their millions wouldn’t like this, so it would also mean civil war. Real civil war a la 1990s Yugoslavia. Hollande and Valls are not prepared to take the steps necessary to ensure France’s survival. Even Marine Le-Pen might baulk at instigating civil war but France’s survival has moved beyond peaceful measures now, through sheer weight of Muslim numbers combined with a fanatical belief system.

So we wait to see what happens. And whatever happens to France could also happen to many other Western European countries. Germany, Holland, Belgium, Britain and Sweden are all on the same incremental but remorselessly unstoppable trajectory toward Islamic confrontation or post-Christian submission. We live in interesting times. No one can predict the future but I think one thing can be said with absolute certainty – the next ten-years will be NOTHING like the last sixty-five years of relative peace and prosperity. Really nothing at all. And right now, all eyes are on France.

Play About a French Muslim President Hits Nerve in Germany

AFP By Eloi Rouyer, Yahoo

German actor Edgar Selge in the role of Francois, seen during a rehearsal of the stage adaptation of French author Michel Houellebecq's novel Submission, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg, northern Germany

Hamburg, Germany (AFP) - Stage adaptations of French author Michel Houellebecq's novel "Submission", in which a Muslim president takes power in 2022 France, have been a hit in Germany where a huge Mideast refugee influx has stoked fears of the impact of Islamic culture.

The first German theatre version sold out in the northern city of Hamburg, while in Dresden, birthplace of the Islamophobic PEGIDA street movement, a play premiered last weekend, with a third adaptation planned for Berlin in late April.

"It seems like it's a very timely story because everybody, each in their own way, picks up on a point of the topic that concerns them," actor Edgar Selge, who plays the central character Francois in Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre, told AFP.

In the monologue play, Selge stands on stage for nearly three hours, embodying an opportunistic and spineless academic, a loner who is slowly seduced by a new life under Islam and becomes a political force who rises to the French presidency.

Selge said that Houellebecq, through this central character, "asks us provocatively: what values do you have in your culture that really mean anything to you?"

The influential weekly Die Zeit said that "'Submission' describes how a pre-modern Muslim ideology turns Western society upside down, how women are denied their rights, how acceptance fades for the central values of the West.

German actor Edgar Selge plays the role of 'Francois', during a rehearsal of the stage adapt …

"Does that remind you of anything?" it asked.

"Perhaps of the voices that, since New Year's Eve at the latest, see the refugees as agents of a culture war between the Islamic and Western worlds?"

Germany was shocked by the chaotic scenes on New Year's Eve in Cologne when a crowd of mostly North African men sexually assaulted or robbed hundreds of women, scenes that heightened fears about Europe's biggest migrant crisis since World War II.

- 'Finger in the wound' -

Dresden-born PEGIDA -- short for European Patriots against the Islamisation of the Occident -- and the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party have seized on the events, railing against "sex jihadists" and "rapefugees".

German actor Edgar Selge in the role of 'Francois', seen during a rehearsal of the stage ada …

"I think it's almost impossible to watch this piece in Dresden without thinking of PEGIDA or the AFD," said director Malte C. Lachmann, who has staged the play in the Baroque capital of Saxony state.

But Lachmann insists that "Submission" is "absolutely not Islamophobic", as some critics charged in France, but rather that it "really puts the finger into the wound" of modern Western civilisation.

"'Submission' is not really about Islam, it's about us in the West and our torments," Lachmann told AFP.

Selge agrees, judging that Houellebecq "very accurately captures the detachment and opportunism of our liberal-bourgeois culture".

"You really need someone who studies how much we value notions that are supposed to mean something to us -- like emancipation, democracy, separation of powers, humanism, atheism, a sense of responsibility for the Third World -- and he concludes: these are all just phrases, just paper tigers.

Supporters of the PEGIDA movement, 'Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident

"And he challenges us to fill them with new meaning, or to just find new ones."

- 'Selfish detachment' -

The only time Selge said he had doubts about the play was after the bloody carnage of the Islamic State group attacks that hit the Paris Bataclan theatre and other targets on November 13.

At the time, "I thought that reality has just caught up with us," he said. "But in the meantime I have arrived at a new conclusion.

"I think that because the Bataclan attack and Cologne happened -- and these are two very different things -- and because that paralyses us, and we don't know how to deal with it, it's important that theatre provides a space where we can distance ourselves from it, where we can deal with these problems in a playful, even humorous way."

Lachmann agreed that "it is the essential duty of theatre to confront the world in which we live".

The main message for Selge is the need to invest more in democracy, which in the novel is threatened by a triumphant yet peaceful Islam, as well as by the selfish detachment of Francois.

"If we don't start to massively pump money into education and integration, then we can foresee that this society as we know it will go to hell," he said, voicing support for the liberal refugee policy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"I support her position, but you have to work so that it gains the acceptance of the population. And of course just having this position is not enough, it also has to be financed."

In an opinion poll published last week, 59 percent of Germans said they are not satisfied with Merkel's path in the refugee crisis.

The play is, no doubt, an interesting study of western culture, and I admire Houellebecq for taking it on. What the play doesn't do is to portray an accurate picture of what France under Islam would look like. The concept of a 'peaceful Islam' in the midst of a western culture when Muslims are the majority or are approaching it is fanciful at best. A Muslim France will have no tolerance for French customs or values, and will quickly bring them in line with Islam, one way or another, including rabid antisemitism.

How many Muslim states do you see with tolerance for other cultures? There was a time when Turkey and Iran were both peaceful, open societies where women were free to express themselves. Both of those countries are becoming much less tolerant of, if not hostile to western customs. 

A peaceful Muslim France is possible, but not for very long.