I’ll start with an editorial from today’s New York Post:
Stop pretending the French riots are anything but an attack on civilization
France is seeing its worst riots in decades — violence clearly aimed not simply at the ruling party, but at France itself — and the left-liberal establishment is still trying to blame a few bad apples.
That’s true not just of President Emmanuel Macron, but of global media that claim it’s mainly about student grievances over budget cuts — at least one BBC article actually used the phrase “mostly peaceful protests.”
This is nonsense: The street mobs haven’t been just (or even mostly) kids for weeks now, and the vandalism began in the first days; it was last month that “protesters” set a teacher on fire.
Foreign flags (Morocco, Algeria, “Palestine”) came out at the start; the crowds are mostly blacks and Arabs — overwhelmingly from Muslim immigrant communities, in other words.
And the political statements are obvious: Burning down historic town halls; smashing a statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.
Synagogues ransacked and other targeting of Jews.
Liberty isn’t leading these people, but a hatred for Western civilization itself.
Leaders of that civilization who still insist on denial will either find themselves as former leaders, or “leading” a former civilization.
That is today’s France. And it is even further along in the United Kingdom – which is less and less recognizable as the country it used to be every day.
Elections in our country are going to take place in two weeks. And there are candidates running for major public office who will either be just as weak and complicit as France’s Emmanuel Macron is, or whose comments and histories suggest they might actually be sympathetic to the “take western civilization down” tone of what is happening in the country Macron is supposed to be leading.
