I have said for some time now that, by 2020 or so, we would be dealing with a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of France. The hordes of unassimilated Muslim immigrants in the ghettoes of France grow ever bolder in their confrontations with police and security forces, and still, nothing is done about it. Appeasement, more welfare, etc., are not solutions. Simply put, and as Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters points out, these people have to be integrated into French society or expelled from the country should France have any hope of survival. France has neither the desire to see these people integrated nor the stones to deport them, and so that country as we now know it (absent some massive political change of willpower) is unlikely to survive as we know it for more than another decade or two, and I fear its national death will be a bloody one for the natives. So, as the guy from the "Saw" movies says, "Suffering? You haven't seen anything yet."...so it shall be for the French. Oh, and by the way, if America wants to know what will happen if America doesn't do something about the unassimilated Latin American masses in our midst and growing by the day, here's a preview of coming attractions (even if it's 50 years down the road yet in our case).
"On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests made.
The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year. ...
This shows the limitations of multiculturalism. No one has a problem when people engage in their own cultural rituals and speak their own language; it becomes a problem when they force native populations to adopt them for themselves. Immigration should exist where people want to assimilate into the culture of the nation they adopt, and not where people arrive to set up enclaves of the Old Country and then demand that their hosts recognize their authority to do so. America's success with immigration came from the impulse of its immigrants to join in the American culture and the American dream, not because we started printing ballots in eighteen different languages to accommodate people who didn't want to learn English.
Separation breeds resentment, from both sides. Separatism creates borders, and borders presage wars when only one side recognizes them. The French banlieus may not have reached the warfare stage yet, but they keep coming closer and closer to it. The French will either have to find a way to break up the Muslim ghettoes, either by working harder for assimilation or by kicking a lot of people out of France."