French Intellectual speaks out

The Israeli daily newspaper Ha'aretz carried an interview with leading French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut in which the latter made some un-pc observations. Sez Finkielkraut:

In France, they would like very much to reduce these riots to their social dimension, to see them as a revolt of youths from the suburbs against their situation, against the discrimination they suffer from, against the unemployment. The problem is that most of these youths are blacks or Arabs, with a Muslim identity. Look, in France there are also other immigrants whose situation is difficult - Chinese, Vietnamese, Portuguese - and they're not taking part in the riots. Therefore, it is clear that this is a revolt with an ethno-religious character.

The acceptance of Asian immigrants by the Westerners as workers, collegues and friends shows that White racism as a force to obstruct integration is not plausible.

Moreover, there's a contradiction here. Because if these suburbs were truly in a state of total neglect, there wouldn't be any gymnasiums to torch, there wouldn't be schools and buses. If there are gymnasiums and schools and buses, it's because someone made an effort. Maybe not enough of one, but an effort.

The French really made an effort to make a place for the Arabs and the Africans. The Asians rose to the occassion. The Arabs and Africans did not.

Of course discrimination exists. And certainly there are French racists. French people who don't like Arabs and blacks. And they'll like them even less now, when they know how much they're hated by them. So this discrimination will only increase, in terms of housing and work, too.

Indeed, how can one not come to certain conclusions if one witnesses the hatred these ethnics have for the Europeans and European civilisation.

Still Finkielkraut is alone in his denunciation of the demographic of the rioters. And most of the European press, save Elsevier and HP/De Tijd in The Netherlands did not dare to make similar observations or give Finkielkraut a platform.

Instead the pundit caste, the newpaper and television editors, make excuses for these people. Who refuse the hand outstretched to them by the progressive French State:

But you're not allowed to say that, either. I can't. It's common sense, but they prefer to propound the myth of `French racism.' It's not right.

The media, the keepers of the city square where the affairs of the community are discussed, do not allow a genuine debate. Only certain discussions with certain outcomes are allowed.

We live today in an environment of a `perpetual war on racism' and the nature of this anti-racism also needs to be examined.

This war on racism is a perpetual Jihad on European people, their culture and history. Can we blame susceptible immigrant groups to be fired by this Jihad if the Pundits, the Brahmins of our civilisation a preaching it? Can we blame these groups for hating us if we hate ourselves and the heritage that our progenitors left us? If we fail to pass heritage and tradition on to our posterity?

The aftermath:
In an illustration of the closing of the Western mind Alain Finkielkraut spoke of, he was attacked by an anti-racist group that filed a lawsuit againt him for virulent racism. Finkielkraut retracted and issued an insincere apology.