July 11, 2004

"Religion of Peace" in Paris

From Yahoo/AP comes this heartening story of some followers of Islam -- the Religion of Peace -- and their dealings with a French mother and child on a train: bq. A gang of young men attacked a woman riding a suburban train with her infant, cutting her hair and drawing swastikas on her stomach. Other passengers watched but did nothing, police reported. And more: bq. Police said the gang of six set upon the 23-year-old woman on a suburban train north of Paris and grabbed her backpack where they found identity papers that showed an address in the capital's well-to-do 16th district. "There are only Jews in the 16th," one of the group of attackers said. bq. The young woman, who was not identified, was not Jewish and no longer lived in the district, police said. bq. The gang then pushed her and cut her hair "to keep a souvenir," police said. The attackers opened her shirt, reportedly with a knife, before drawing swastikas on her stomach with a marking pen. The 13-month-old infant fell from its stroller in the mêlée. Neither the mother nor infant was seriously hurt, police said. bq. Police described the gang as ages 15 to 20 and said some appeared to be of Muslim North African origin. One of the things that makes America so strong is that the people who emigrate here assimilate quickly. The Vietnamese father who moves here makes sure that his kids attend college and become professionals and speak only English. Because the Europeans have such strict laws regarding labor -- wages, benefits, hiring and firing, they have taken to importing loads of "cheap labor" from Africa without urging them to assimilate into French culture and society. Now this is coming home to roost... Posted by DaveH at July 11, 2004 1:05 PM