Are The French Are Waking Up?
René Servoise, former ambassador of France to Indonesia, recently wrote this:
A mutation of our nation is in progress. It is growing, it is profound but uncontrolled. In all likelihood, the immense majority of Frenchmen are unaware of it.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslim families, from North Africa, the Middle East and black Africa – whose religion, aspirations and mores are radically different from ours – now live on our soil. Their birth rate is higher than that of European families.
What is the consequence? Within 30 years the population of Islamist culture could be in the majority among those 40 years old or younger. “In France, we will have between 6 and 8 million Arabs by the years 2005 – 2010,” said Edgar Pisani, honorary president of the Arab World Institute. We have been duly warned: this is a radical transformation (political, economic, cultural and social) of our society.
This mutation is in progress at the very moment when, to use Toynbee’s expression, “an external proletariat” is forming on the southern and western shores of the Mediterranean Sea. This army of reservists came about as a result of the birth rate of these peoples, and the absence of an economic policy capable of guaranteeing them a decent life in their homeland. In front of them lie France, Italy, Spain and Germany, lands of mirage, highly developed, with guaranteed employment, free social protection and education. Who could resist the call of this “promised land”?
In France, the successive waves of Italians, Poles, central European Jews, Spaniards and Portuguese, had never posed comparable problems of integration. Why? Because they belonged to the European branch. Their religious traditions and their ambition to acquire more individual freedoms facilitated their assimilation. Finally – and this is far from the least important reason – these immigrants expressed a desire to share the destiny of the French nation. To meld into it. Integration cannot be decreed. In order for it to materialize it must be desired by two, this is obvious. And the two must converge.
Today, the situation is different, radically different. An active and determined minority among the Islamists refuses integration. Deliberately.
In close communion with Islam (its matrix), it is receptive to orders from abroad, to spiritual counsel, ideology and financial support. And much more. Not only does it intend to keep its identity, but to re-Islamize the non-practicing, if not convert the natives of the host country to the true faith.
Islam has never conceived of itself as a minority in a secular State, but necessarily as the majority religion. (…) Exalted by its renewal, propelled both by its demography and its absence of economic development, infiltrating wherever there is no resistance, Islam is advancing like a wave.
The French people can measure its vitality by the number of mosques multiplying on their territory (sometimes with the help of Catholic and lay leaders), mosques run by imams 96% of whom are from foreign countries. Also by the prospect of seeing – in the second half of the 21st century – the fall of Catholicism in France to second rank, leaving first place to Islam.
Thus two dynamics are developing: one inside our borders (…); the other outside (…) Concomitant and convergent, these changes are determining factors for Europe and for the French nation where the demographic stagnation is alarming.
The French have been warned… and the unrest they have been subjected to is just the beginning.
Also, here’s a great article on why the Religion of Perpetual Outrage is a danger to us all.

April 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I think a majority of French people are painfully aware of this new demographic reality. Monsieur Servoise is just one of the few French public figures with the guts to say it out loud.
Not a popular opinion to voice these in PC times. Mark Steyn got dragged before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (Canada) for saying essentially the same thing.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
For a nation that is so careful about any pollution of the French language with “foreign” words, they sure are careless about polluting their culture with people who are hostile to most of the Republic’s values.
It it too late to just stop allowing immigration of Islamic peoples. It only delays the day when the French will face the three demands that Islam places on all infidels: convert, submit or die. And the French will face these damands on their own soil by people who speak their own language, were born in their own towns and hold a French passport!
Silly liberals, er, um, “progressives”.
April 7th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Every country in old western europe has sown the seeds of their eventual destruction by permitting unlimited muslim immigration. Europe is being colonized by an people who adhere to an ideology that has nothing in common with values of western civilization. Those of us on this side of the Atlantic debate – amongst ourselves – the best ways to remove the nukes in europe before muslim colonization is complete.