Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews
By David Pryce-Jones (Encounter Books 171pp £20.99)
by Daniel Johnson
As I write, it is exactly a year since the desolate banlieues of France erupted in an orgy of violence, on a scale which had not been seen for generations. At the time, these riots were blamed on social exclusion. Since then, it has become clear that the rioters are not just 'immigrants' or 'youths', but are first and foremost Muslims. When they set light to a car, their cry is often: 'Allahu akhbar!' ('Allah is great!')
The violence, moreover, is endemic and ubiquitous. In 2005, there were 110,000 incidents of urban violence, including 45,000 vehicles burnt out. This year, there has been an average of over 100 incidents a day. Since the riots supposedly subsided last January, some 3,000 police officers are reported to have been injured. France is quite deliberately being made ungovernable.
This 'French intifada' was merely the culmination of a process that has turned many suburbs into no-go areas for the police and increasingly for non-Muslims too. In particular, the Islamist rabble-rousers who are behind the insurgency have incited their followers to attack Jews, who are now outnumbered by Muslims in France by at least ten to one.
How has it come to this? In this devastating indictment, the cri de coeur of an Englishman who loves France but is exasperated by the French, the background to this breakdown of civil society gradually emerges. David Pryce-Jones has discovered the explanation in the archives of the French foreign ministry, known after its imposing headquarters, the Quai d'Orsay.
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Bun autor, thank you Roy !
M-am dus sa vad cine e scriitorul mentionat, ca nu-l cunosteam.
David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (1936-) is a conservative British author and commenter.
He was BORN in VIENNA and his family fled to Britain from France in 1940.
He was educated at Eton and read History at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied under A.J.P. Taylor.
His relationship with Taylor was very antagonistic, with the two frequently getting into shouting matches.
He served as officer in the British Army of the Rhine. He has worked as a journalist and author. He was Literary Editor at the Financial Times 1959-61, and The Spectator from 1961-63.
David Pryce-Jones currently works as senior editor at National Review Magazine. He also contributes to The New Criterion.
Pryce-Jones often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters...
Dar... cartea lui Muhammad's Monster nu-mi este noua.
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