France: A Decomposing Civilization

Excellent article, bravo for this brilliant article about the end of the French nation.

Liberals say we cannot judge community at large by an act of an individual. Yes, indeed. But we can judge general character of a community by judging the leaders they elect. Usually Muslim countries do not support democracies. And if they do, they would choose religious leaders. So they are governed by the religion or by the dictators. Working democracy is not their choice. Now look at the character of EU community. So far, they are liberals and they still continue to elect liberal leaders. These liberal leaders appear to have been guided by the white Christian guilt complex and are bending over backward to help and accommodate Muslim community whose values have nothing in common with their own. They are being guided by their own values to the destruction of their values. That is not very smart.

I can't express how much sadness, anger, frustration, and hopelessness (for France and the EU) I feel.

I read the police reports/testimony about how gruesomely mutilated the bodies were. They cried while testifying. Those people were tortured before they died: intestines spilling out, gang raped and torn apart, testicles cut off and shoved in the victims' mouths.

Now the "progressive" commie Left in the US is calling for TOTAL GUN CONFISCATION. I've read newspaper op-eds, opinion pieces and even saw a broadcast video in which FIVE DEMOCRATS have told their party "let's abandon the pretense and do what we've always intended: confiscate all the guns!" Every nation that has surrendered their guns has eventually slaughtered their citizens.

Wake up America! Islam is at war with you. They attacked us in the Barbary Wars. Thomas Jefferson warned (future us) of the true nature of Islam. So did Winston Churchill. Islam has been at war with the west for 1,400 years!

France's reservoir of warrior DNA was greatly diminished by the Napoleonic wars. Verdun depleted it. Proof: In 1940 the Germans walked through France like a sharp knife through soft butter.

Nogales has it spot on. My son is fluent in French and lived there for two years. His take on the French was that they were only interested in food, wine, sex, and the good life. They will put off unpleasant decisions indefinitely. Unfortunately, they will then come begging for help like they did in both world wars after they realize collaboration and appeasement has not sated the beast that threatens to consume them. Of course, we will go to bail out their sorry butts and the cycle will start again. Only the former Eastern bloc countries can save Europe from itself. They know hard times and what it takes to survive as a culture.

I met some French young people on my job. I liked them at first but then realized they were wackos. The only thing the French will attack with all their heart is their own self interest or straight white men. Will they ever go back to their catholic roots? It appears not. Germany needs to as well but both peoples have been hardened to any spirituality and this is why the muslims feel so empowered. These two countries were once the strongest Catholics on earth but have both turned into lands of pseudo intellectual robots void of any love for God.

Have the French lost the will to live? Lost the will to preserve its values? Do they no longer think those values are worth preserving? Do they wish Islam to scrub the country of the values that made it unique? Nature will not tolerate a vacuum, and Islam is only too glad to fill it with hordes of unassimilable Muslims and to impose Sharia law on all non-Muslims.

Is there any light at this end of this dark, dark tunnel? It wouldn't appear so.

The Caliphate has been destroyed in Iraq and Syria, but it is being welcomed with open arms in Europe.

There are few things the intelligentsia can be proud of -- they are just never right about anything. But this welcoming of hard line Islamists into Europe will be the final nail in the coffin.

This is likely to come to a violent end, one way, or another. Either the Muslims will increase in number until they become a major political power, and forcibly subjugate Europe to their beliefs, or the public will defy their governments and the EU, and make war on all Muslims to drive them out of Europe. There is hardly any chance of taking government away from the entrenched political class who have created the problem.

The idiotic, leftist ruling class who control all the major political parties, the education system, the press, and the EU, will not give up their beliefs and dogma any more than the Muslims will give up theirs. Both are the enemies of freedom, prosperity, and European cultures, and they will have to be defeated and destroyed if Europe is to survive in any form similar to what it has been. The question is which will come first -- will the European peoples realize that they will have to take the responsibility upon themselves to preserve their nations, cultures, religions, etc. (since their governments will not), or will Islam become strong enough to conquer Europe?

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Ok this is the situation. But how you can fix it?

The appeasement shown by the present French government is typical when one considers socialist Liberalism is behind it all.
What a huge mistake the French people made last national election day.
Had Marine LePen won, we would be reading of the tyrant LePen (the same as the MSM assault on Trump) by the Leftist media upset because 2,500 French ISIS supporters were arrested or lost their citizenship and deported by LePen. The French media would be in a tizzy complaining that LePen has closed down nearly 70% of Mosques in France and arrested, detained, deported many Islamists.
More and more outrage by the Leftist media in the UK and Europe, because LePen instituted a LOVE FRANCE Campaign, simply declaring "I as a French citizen declare my Love for France and its Constitution above and beyond any and all other laws, political or religious." Can you imagine the outrage on the Left?
Only Trump would dare show LePen any grace whatsoever, of course, besides the Eastern Europeans.
France is the mirror opposite of what transpired on election day in the USA. America DODGED an EVIL bullet by electing a man instead of a woman, and France drank the poison by NOT electing the woman.
Go figure.
Vive La France!!
Indeed.
But when?

The results of the recent French election were to decisively reject European cultural and territorial sovereignty in favor of continued open-borders Islamization and the debasement of Europe. The same trend, though not as pronounced, is clearly visible throughout Western countries. The only thing that saved the USA from the fate of France was an unprecedented electoral upset.

This is a sociological phenomenon never before seen in human history; the deliberate surrender of a powerful, high civilization to what can only be described as a rabble of hostile parasites. My suspicion lies in the primary and secondary schools and the 'progressive' changes made to the curriculum beginning in the late 1960s. When you brainwash young children that their nation is profoundly flawed with a sordid history, and that patriotism is a form of bigotry, it is naive to expect them to place any value on it.

When the rapidly breeding migrants begin to vote enmass, one thing is for certain. They will not be voting for European values. They will be voting the values of the failed states they fled to invade Europe. Those values will be imposed upon native Europeans by any means necessary.

Good article, but don't think the same thing cannot occur in the U.S. The left doesn't realize that the too will ultimately fall prey to the Wahhabi ideology and their days are numbered as well.

Thank you Gatestone for the commentary on the fall of the west. Maybe France will awaken too late. The arrogance of the postmodernists has been the catalyst, beliefs were injected into the social fabric which were erroneous. Even the spectre of Sarkozy talking about forcing the French to breed with other races did not chill the French into doing something to save their culture.

France is merely a part of Western society which is highly feminised and severely emasculated. A key symptom of this in all western society, not just France, is the declining birthrate - far far below that needed just to reproduce itself. That part of western society where women are still repressed is doing very well and reproducing itself to take over the losses inside the host society: reference is to Muslim society of course.
France will be Muslim maybe as early as 2030, 2035.

How incredibly sad that the French have chosen to commit suicide and hereby destroy their culture - historic and otherwise - that we mostly admired.

They have had amply opportunity, but declined, to support political leaders who wanted to rescue France from the Islamic invasion that is at the point of victory. So one can say they deserve what they get.

The root cause of their blindness and lack of wisdom has been their rejection of God, which always has negative consequences eventually. The rest of us need not be smug, because our countries are on the same path as France is, and we will also reap the same consequences if we choose to remain blind.

Good points! Something is obviously going wrong in Europe and nobody seems to have figured out why this obsession in accommodating this pagan religion into Europe, which it wants to destroy.

This is either treason, madness or BOTH!

While I don't think it's a laughing matter, Giulio Meotti's insightful article gives credence to the old saw that the French would rather wave the white flag of surrender than put up a fight. Another commentator some time ago in another venue noted that the French have lost the will to live as a Western nation. Is it because the French no longer wish to preserve their values? Do they think those values are no longer worth fighting for, and are willing penalize those who think they are worth preserving and fighting for, such as Marine Le Pen? The lack of a while to fight allows to barbarians and alien Muslims to sweep in by droves to take over and impose its totalitarian ideology on everyone; nature will not tolerate a vacuum. That is what we are witnessing, and in Britain, as well. Apparently, to oppose what the French elites deem as an inevitable course of "history," is regarded as a crime. It is a fight to the death; only Islam and the Muslims seem to know that, but not the French. Vive le difference? Not really, to Islam, and not for long. Well, just wait until Sharia patrols begin raiding and shutting down all those bistros and outlawing aperitifs as offences against Allah; wait until they destroy the Nike in the Louvre with a bomb or gunfire and every other priceless artwork. Wait until singing "La Marseillaise" is declared insulting to Muslims and banned under penalties, fines, and even jail time. France, like so many other Western nations, is on the defensive, not on the aggressive. So was ancient Rome. Rome didn't think its values were worth fighting the barbarian for, either.

Dear Europe, be patient...in a generation, you will be on the phone asking American troops to come to your aid. Mark my words, my sons will be of the troops providing you aid. When will you wake up and help yourselves?
Best Dax
PS, in less than a generation, our progressive liberal politicians will perform the same functions your politicians are performing; tearing the country apart from within. We will be facing the same nonsense you now face in the name of multi-cultism.

The events, when put together, tells the truth about the NWO agenda. Why the French have tolerated this after two world wars is beyond comprehension. Who do they think will come to their rescue this time? When the heads start rolling, and this is a literal question, what will they do?

That is what socialism, communism, Islamism etc. do to the brains! They get numb, frozen and finally degenerate into obsolescence. That is what happens when the human spirit is enslaved to an ideology, any ideology actually.

Quelle tristesse! I can only hope this is widely exaggerated as France has long been a symbol and actual haven for free thought, cultural innovation, and the joy of living. Islamism seems the opposite of all 3 things, I have trouble believing the French would give away their quality of life and yet it hard to point to things to refute the article.
At this point, I thank Gatestone for calling attention to the situation and urge others to help raise the issue more widely.

It appears that the Gatestone Institute is the only source of relevant and honest journalism, factual information about the realities of worldwide events, and the real threat from the death cult and it's worshippers, avoided at all costs by the MSM, SKY, BBC, CHANNEL FOUR, and now sadly ITV, as if they've all been struck by some sort of mental disorder.

If the foundation of a culture is built upon a mistaken identity, perhaps it is time to discover a true identity and stop fighting for an illusion.
In no way are the deplorable and violent actions of Islamists to be ignored or rationalized as acceptable. Their illusions of superiority are as false as anyone who believes that fighting windmills will bring about peace and joy in the world. The shadow-dance that we are witnessing in Europe today is not the end of the world; it is perhaps the end of a description of the world as we have known in western Europe. Replacing one limited description with another is not true transformation, and the description that the global elite would have us believe is another form of slavery dressed in the guise of freedom.

A painful picture you metaphorically paint Giulio, but it is impossible to refute it, what a sad end to European civilization we are compelled to live through. Compelled by politicians who foolishly think that by turning the other cheek will eventually return the status quo.

Shmuel Trigano best describes it "sacrificed the victims to avoid fighting the murderers". This is not cowardliness but it is certainly stupidity! Read the butchery displayed openly in the Koran. Do you want those that follow you to live in a world dominated by such evilness?

I totally agree with the author France which was the first to bow down to Islam and Europe which followed suit is totally under control by Islam and does not even try to fight it. ONLY A DICTATOR CAN STAND UP TO ISLAM AND SAVE EUROPEANS FROM DEATH AND SLAVERY. Ancient Athens did it with THEMISTOCLES the greatest man after Alexander in Greek history.

Brillant writing, Mr. Meotti. Sad, but true and accurate!

Thank you, for reminding us of this pattern of political and cultural suicide that France seems to fall into. Has anyone ever done a chronology of this pattern occurring even in France's early historical years? Maybe there is a strangely re-occurring French cycle that could be eclipsed so that France could atleast SEE the redundancy and do the mad scramble and free herself from her present and future bondage?

A brillant bacchanalian culture that likes to "amuse itself to death!"(pardon my quoting a part of your sentence that had me giggling more than I probably should have.)

We must all learn from this. Every democracy stands at it's own threshold wavering between fanatical worship of tolerance for freedom, and preservation of the love of country, culture, and national values. Being democratic, honoring fraternity, liberty, and cultural diversity, does NOT require that that nation surrender to terrorists, tyrants, dictators, or murderous, mutinous, mobs! There is NO HONOR in surrender to social injustice:rape, child molestation, child brides, so-called honor killings, polygamy, FGM, and the subjugation of women to a lower status.

So much obvious FEAR driven policies abound in France: ISLAMOPHOBIC legal miscalculations, refusal to stand man-to-man in professional careers than demand honor and integrity, and finally, surrendering your beliefs to a group who count it as a BATTLE WON! France is in WWIII and losing briskly!

Stuff the French! If they want to roll over and submit to Muslims then let them do so! Hollande was a coward and he has been swiftly followed by another. Macron is a waste of space, he won on false pretences, he had no intention of putting up a fight against Islam and the Muslims in his country. France for all intents and purposes is a conquered country.
But the same applies to most European countries, in particular Britain where I live. We also have politicians who have caved in to Islam and I suspect that they are just waiting for the right time to tell the people that we must all bow to Islam.

Two world wars in one century and they still don't understand. So incredibly sad.

Orwell predicted all of this ("1984"): as the interrogator told Winston: "you will go to your death loving Big Brother". The French seem determined to commit suicide. Where is General DeGaulle when you need him?