France's "Ultraright" Le Pen Party Makes Common Cause With Fellow Jew-Hatin' Muslim Jihadis

It's so great when people you despise get together to mutually discredit each other.

n France, Jean-Marie Le Pen's far right National Front appears to have opted for a can't-lick-'em-join-'em strategy, a rapprochement with France's large immigrant Muslim community -- with undertones of anti-Semitism. Le Pen's reasoning appears to be the recognition that Islamicization is in France to stay with 25 percent of France's under 20 population Muslim (40 percent in some cities), 2nd and 3rd generation North Africans. FN's tough stance on immigration is tempered by support for Arab and Islamist causes in the Middle East (Hamas and Hezbollah are two favorites). There are an estimated 6 to 8 million Muslims among France's 62 million and Islam is now France's second religion. Mosques are well attended on Fridays; churches aren't on Sundays. France's prison inmates are over 50 percent Muslim

Le Pen's strategic advisers argue the FN must drop its founding mythology and forget about the once popular image of a modern Joan of Arc resisting the invasion of Muslim hordes. Americans and Jews are the new targets. But the party's Christian right-wingers do not agree and are defecting in large numbers. The Islamist threat is their main concern and they are finding a new political home in MPF, Mouvement Pour la France, which is anti-European Union and anti-Muslim, and given only 7 percent of registered voters in a recent poll. Le Pen's followers have dropped back from 11 percent to 9 percent.

Worth reading in full. The beginning describes how jihadist Muslims have essentially declared their ghettoes part of the Caliphate -- threatening to beat or kill all "intruders" into "their" territory.

And they're not just threatening. Fourteen policemen per day are wounded in violent clashes with the jihadi gangs.

Interior Minister/future James Bond villain Dominique De Villepain called for the immediate withdrawal of France from France.

posted by Ace at 06:34 PM

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