Yes, The Riots In France Are Because Of Mass Immigration
John Daniel Davidson Visit on Twitter@johnddavidson
Let’s not pretend this is about education funding or anything but the non-assimilation of Muslim migrants in France over many decades.
Back in the halcyon days of 2011, my wife and I spent a year living in Montpellier, France, on the Mediterranean coast. We had an apartment in the old medieval city center, surrounded by narrow winding cobblestone streets. Our place was on the fifth floor, reachable only by a worn spiral stone staircase. It was a five-minute walk to the city’s main square, a daily farmer’s market, an 18th-century aqueduct, and the oldest medical school in the world still in operation, established in 1220.
Living in Montpellier meant being immersed daily not just in French culture but also in European history. The University of Montpellier, where my wife taught that year, officially dates from the 13th century, but its roots are in the Gallo-Roman rhetoric schools of the Roman Empire. Its alumni include Auguste Comte, François Rabelais, Petrarch, and Nostradamus. Minutes from our place was the beautiful Promenade du Peyrou, an esplanade laid out in 1689 featuring a large equestrian statue of King Louis XIV. The king’s hand is extended towards the city, holding a scroll of the law — a reference to Montpellier’s Protestant rebellion during the Reformation, which was put down after a siege by Louis XIII in 1622.
Everywhere we turned in the city, we encountered a piece of French history and culture, true France. But just outside the city was something else entirely. A completely different France — indeed a completely different country. Outside the pleasant confines of Montpellier’s medieval city center there were, to put it bluntly, colonies of North African migrants who had recreated versions of their squalid homelands on French soil.
It is that France, the new France, outposts of Africa and the Middle East, that have taken to the streets of French cities in recent weeks. For anyone who cares to be honest, the reason for the rioting and looting is obvious: mass immigration from the Third World. French President Emmanuel Macron can deny it all he likes, the corporate press can try to spin the story to be about poverty or lack of economic opportunities, but we all know these are not “student protests.” (Among those arrested so far, about 70 percent are adults, to give just one data point.)
These riots were never about poor classroom conditions or teacher pay or anything to do with France’s education system. As many observers have pointed out in recent days, the French government spends an obscene amount of money on social services, including education. Nearly 5 percent of France’s GDP is spent on education, significantly higher than most other developed countries. In any case, the government could hardly spend more than it already does on education, no matter how many city centers the Antifa-Islamist mobs take over.
This is, simply put, an intifada, waged by leftists thugs together with Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East. And by “migrants” I mean also the unassimilated children and grandchildren of migrants, who are not French in any meaningful sense. Their purpose in taking to the streets is to overthrow the French republic, to tear it down, to plunder and pillage and destroy.