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1.8 Million angry Muslims living in Franceâs ghettos
Almost 2 million French citizens are living in newly created urban ghettos in an environment characterised by anti-French feeling, racial hatred and the oppression of women, according to a French intelligence agency report leaked yesterday. The study is set to reignite the debate over Franceâs struggle to integrate its immigrant population and its inability to cope with rising unemployment, sexual inequality and growing fundamentalism in its urban sink estates. The agency studied 630 at-risk areas in France, places selected because they had experienced some level of urban violence, to assess whether they had already degenerated into ghettos. Most of the "sensitive suburbs" are run-down housing estates built by the French government between the 50s and 70s to house immigrant workers. The intelligence body based its definition on a range of criteria encompassing high immigration levels, high levels of non-French speakers at school, the presence of anti-semitic and anti-western graffiti, growing numbers of inhabitants wearing religious or oriental dress, and a growth in Muslim religious institutions. They reported that more than 300 areas were already ghettoised. The report added that the wealthier inhabitants "usually of European descent" were moving out en masse. The agency underlines the "growing role of radical Islamic preachers", whose presence is recorded in 200 of the quartiers studied...The report concludes, according to Le Monde, that preachers are instilling in young inhabitants the idea that they are the "victims of discrimination and racism" triggering a growth of anti-French sentiment...The French interior ministry has not commented on the report, except to state that since taking the job as interior minister this year, Dominique de Villepin has been determined to work towards improving a sense of national unity...Last year the French government began to tackle this issue, launching a renovation programme for its city suburbs, pledging £21bn to improve the worst of the estates. France better have the best military, not one of the best, because Villepin throwing $ at the problem is not going to make it go away...the enemy within can be as dangerous as the enemy without...2 sides of the same coin. Another excellent article appeared in the City Journal 2 years ago re: Franceâs immigrant problem. I highly recommend you book mark the url & read it at a later date. Very worrisome that France has nukes that could fall into the wrong hands. http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html "The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris" by Theodore Dalrymple Autumn 2002 issue Posted by: rex 2004-07-05 |
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