I saw this in a Newsweek piece, describing what a great life it is to grow up in France:
His [a French person's] education, from grade school through university, will be essentially free.
Er, define "essentially" and then define "free."
I love France. Loved it when I stayed there, loved it when I was just visiting. But "essentially free" is a lie. If education in France is truly free, then I have to assume that university professors do not get paid, buildings are erected by construction workers that never eat, and books are printed on thin air.
Maxim: whatever and wherever it is, somebody has to pay for it.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Danged French "Youths" At It Again
A story like this next one disgusts me in two ways. One, the fact that people can treat other people like this, all in the name of religion and race. Two, that the media are so cowed by the Islamo-fascist movement that they can't even write a real story.
What's the story?
Well, a 19-year-old Frenchman named Mathieu Roumi was taking a walk in Bagneuax, a Paris suburb, at 10 AM. Broad daylight. Two "youths" approached him. They said that Roumi owed them money. An argument ensued. A third friend of the "youths" helped drag Roumi into a basement. Once there, three more "youths" arrived and helped torture Roumi.
They shoved cigarette butts into his mouth, scrawled "dirty Jew" on his forehead, and threatened that he would die "the way Halimi did." (Halimi was a 23-year-old Jew who was tortured by a "gang" over the course of three weeks, after which he was dumped into the street. He died the same day). The gang that killed Halimi was called "The Barbarians," and apparently this was the gang that now held Roumi.
Not content with using Roumi as an ashtray, the "youths" put a condom on a stick and shoved the rubber in Roumi's mouth. They screamed slurs about his sexual orientation, and yelled that they were proud of Youssaf Fofana. (Fofana was the leader of the gang that tortured and killed Halimi).
Then, in a whacky twist of fate, they let Roumi go. Not because they decided to spare his life, but because one of the torturers had to get going, and he had the only key to the basement. That's a pretty mixed up sense of priorities even for a torturer: it's fine to shove a condom in a guy's mouth, but be afraid someone will break in and steal the condom when you're done?
So Roumi went home, a broken young man. The next day, the police picked up the suspects, who said that they had not meant to harm Roumi.
Now, you're probably wondering what kind of "youths" they have in France. To figure that out, you have to use your Media Rosetta Stone. "Youth" does not mean a young teenager. Nor does "immigrant youth" mean a young man from Poland, Denmark, or Brazil.
What does "youth" mean? It means a Muslim man below the age of 50 that has committed a crime. If you are a Christian or Jew and decide to torch cars or kill people, you're a "criminal." If you're a Muslim, it's "youth." Simple, see?
In this particular piece, you find out in the third line that Roumi's a Jew (if, in fact, he is; the report says his father is Jewish, but says nothing about his mother. Judaism is maternal in lineage, so there's an off-chance that Roumi is Episcopalian or Buddhist).
Over the next few paragraphs, you read about "youths" and "immigrant youths" attacking and torturing him. If you were an unthinking newsreader, you might be forgiven for thinking that some evil Dutch kids had clogged Roumi within an inch of his life. But you're not an unthinking newsreader, are you?
At the end of the piece, you find out that most of the "youths" are actually in their twenties, and that two of them "come from Muslim homes."
Ah. So Roumi's father is a Jew, and therefore we'll take it for granted that he himself is a Jew. The Muslims that tortured him, however, merely come from "Muslim homes." The other torturers were described as Portuguese and African immigrants. But they're still "youths," mid-twenties or not.
The story has a final kicker. It has a quote from a former French policeman, a man who is now in charge of monitoring anti-Semitic activity in the area. He says, "Sadly the lesson of Halimi's murder has not been learned...The fact that angry immigrant youth can kidnap a Jew in broad daylight and abuse him proves that the lesson has yet to be learned."
Read that statement again and tell me what possible lesson he can be talking about. Whose lesson? What lesson? The "angry immigrant youths" aren't going to stop doing it, and the French authorities won't do a damn thing about it. They can't even bring themselves to name who the perpetrators are. The only "lesson" he can be speaking of is that the Jews should get out of Dodge before they get killed.
Unfortunately, he may be right. While the media bury the lead, the Jews of that suburb bury their dead.
What's the story?
Well, a 19-year-old Frenchman named Mathieu Roumi was taking a walk in Bagneuax, a Paris suburb, at 10 AM. Broad daylight. Two "youths" approached him. They said that Roumi owed them money. An argument ensued. A third friend of the "youths" helped drag Roumi into a basement. Once there, three more "youths" arrived and helped torture Roumi.
They shoved cigarette butts into his mouth, scrawled "dirty Jew" on his forehead, and threatened that he would die "the way Halimi did." (Halimi was a 23-year-old Jew who was tortured by a "gang" over the course of three weeks, after which he was dumped into the street. He died the same day). The gang that killed Halimi was called "The Barbarians," and apparently this was the gang that now held Roumi.
Not content with using Roumi as an ashtray, the "youths" put a condom on a stick and shoved the rubber in Roumi's mouth. They screamed slurs about his sexual orientation, and yelled that they were proud of Youssaf Fofana. (Fofana was the leader of the gang that tortured and killed Halimi).
Then, in a whacky twist of fate, they let Roumi go. Not because they decided to spare his life, but because one of the torturers had to get going, and he had the only key to the basement. That's a pretty mixed up sense of priorities even for a torturer: it's fine to shove a condom in a guy's mouth, but be afraid someone will break in and steal the condom when you're done?
So Roumi went home, a broken young man. The next day, the police picked up the suspects, who said that they had not meant to harm Roumi.
Now, you're probably wondering what kind of "youths" they have in France. To figure that out, you have to use your Media Rosetta Stone. "Youth" does not mean a young teenager. Nor does "immigrant youth" mean a young man from Poland, Denmark, or Brazil.
What does "youth" mean? It means a Muslim man below the age of 50 that has committed a crime. If you are a Christian or Jew and decide to torch cars or kill people, you're a "criminal." If you're a Muslim, it's "youth." Simple, see?
In this particular piece, you find out in the third line that Roumi's a Jew (if, in fact, he is; the report says his father is Jewish, but says nothing about his mother. Judaism is maternal in lineage, so there's an off-chance that Roumi is Episcopalian or Buddhist).
Over the next few paragraphs, you read about "youths" and "immigrant youths" attacking and torturing him. If you were an unthinking newsreader, you might be forgiven for thinking that some evil Dutch kids had clogged Roumi within an inch of his life. But you're not an unthinking newsreader, are you?
At the end of the piece, you find out that most of the "youths" are actually in their twenties, and that two of them "come from Muslim homes."
Ah. So Roumi's father is a Jew, and therefore we'll take it for granted that he himself is a Jew. The Muslims that tortured him, however, merely come from "Muslim homes." The other torturers were described as Portuguese and African immigrants. But they're still "youths," mid-twenties or not.
The story has a final kicker. It has a quote from a former French policeman, a man who is now in charge of monitoring anti-Semitic activity in the area. He says, "Sadly the lesson of Halimi's murder has not been learned...The fact that angry immigrant youth can kidnap a Jew in broad daylight and abuse him proves that the lesson has yet to be learned."
Read that statement again and tell me what possible lesson he can be talking about. Whose lesson? What lesson? The "angry immigrant youths" aren't going to stop doing it, and the French authorities won't do a damn thing about it. They can't even bring themselves to name who the perpetrators are. The only "lesson" he can be speaking of is that the Jews should get out of Dodge before they get killed.
Unfortunately, he may be right. While the media bury the lead, the Jews of that suburb bury their dead.
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