Since the 1960s, Paris has held a lavish New Year’s Eve celebration on the Champs-Élysées, the wide avenue that epitomizes the grandeur, pride, and glorious history of the city and the French nation as a whole. That’s why it’s all the more disturbing that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are at it again, preemptively waving the white flag and canceling the New Year’s Eve celebrations this year in view of the high probability of an Islamic jihad terror attack.
The French authorities’ desire to prevent a jihad massacre is laudable, but is erasing their own customs and traditions the way to do it? What do they think their country is going to look like in five years, or ten? Do they think that the situation will have calmed down sufficiently by then to allow them to resume activities such as the New Year’s Eve celebrations on the Champs-Élysées without any further anxieties about jihad attacks?
In reality, unfortunately, it’s much more likely that by then, the situation for Paris, and for France and Europe as a whole, will have gotten much, much worse. The reason for this is simple: the French show no sign of doing anything effective about the policies that have gotten them into this fix, or about the real challenge that they (along with the other countries of Europe and North America) now face.
The New York Post reported Saturday that “the massive midnight concert that drew a jubilant crowd of a million people last year — with the festivities having drawn throngs to the ‘most beautiful avenue in the world’ for six decades — has been scrapped and replaced by a pre-recorded video to be viewed in the safety and comfort of French living rooms.” Progress!
All is not lost, however: “The fireworks will still illuminate the Arc de Triomphe when the clock strikes 12, but with officials urging revelers to watch on television rather than in person, the soirée will be a far cry from the famed French joie de vivre of years past.”
This is because “the famed avenue has become a flashpoint of violence lately, with throngs of young, mostly Muslim migrants streaming in from Paris’ infamous suburbs at night looking for trouble, looting lux stores, and brawling with Parisians and police.” In the face of this increasing mayhem, the Parisian police are anything but resolute. They complained of “unpredictable crowd movements” and pressured Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to cancel the festivities, without, of course, spelling out exactly where the threat was coming from. To have done that would have been “Islamophobic.”
Daniel Di Martino, an immigration fellow at the Manhattan Institute, spoke with unusual forthrightness about what is happening in Paris: “It’s obvious that this is the result of massive unvetted Muslim immigration into Europe. Western Europe has had a terrorism problem for many years now, and that has been exacerbated because of unvetted Islamic immigration as a result of the refugee crisis of over a decade ago.”
Di Martino pointed out that “Europe simply welcomed millions of people who were Muslim, who were not highly educated, and who bought into terrorist ideology and are willing to commit terrorist acts and have a culture that is incompatible with Christianity. And some of them actually hate Christianity, and that’s why they target Christmas markets.”
They also target Christmas markets because the Qur’an instructs Muslims to “fight” against “the people of the book,” a group that includes Christians, “until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). The French are already well on their way to that submission, curtailing their own activities, such as the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Paris, rather than pursue the jihadis aggressively and stop mass Muslim migration into the country.
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Another result of that unvetted Islamic immigration is the fact that “even open-air Christmas markets are being treated as high-risk targets.” France’s Interior Minister recently wrote to French officials warning of a “very high terror threat” from jihad groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), and saying: “Christmas markets are popular and symbolic gathering places that are likely to be targeted by violent or politically motivated attacks…. When you read the propaganda of terrorist groups, Christmas markets are targets as are law enforcement officers, as are places of worship of the Jewish community, as are a number of public institutions.”
Nevertheless, like a drug addict, France keeps doing what causes it harm: it keeps on bringing in young Muslim males in large numbers, without even trying to determine if any of them harbor jihadist sympathies. As a result, expect more cancellations.
