Immigration Minus Assimilation Means Conflict
Daniel J. Flynn writes at The American Spectator that terrorists are often on the dole before they murder:
The ex-wife of Ibrahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up in last Friday's Paris attacks, says he worked one whole day during their two-year marriage. Instead of labor, he slept during business hours, watched DVDs, and smoked "alarming" amounts of marijuana every day while blaring Arabic rap music. She told the Daily Mail, "We lived on unemployment benefit which was only €1,000 a month between us so we worried a lot about money."...Before he blew himself up outside a French soccer stadium, Bilal Hadfi lived in state-subsidized housing. Like so many, he hated his landlord. His Facebook page shows him drinking, raising his middle finger, and aiming a firearm. He failed his school exams and confessed an addiction to video games. He repeatedly posted the message (pardon my French) "Nique de police."
...Many of the terrorists displayed more decadence than devotion. Boulahcen's brother maintains she never read the Koran. The headmaster at Hadfi's Belgium school says he "wasn't especially religious." Abdeslam's wife notes that he refused to go to mosque.
...Open wallets as much as open borders doom Europe. Harboring shiftless populations alienated from the surrounding culture by religion asks for trouble. Give them blank checks and watch them fill up the blank spaces of indolence with destruction. We hate our benefactors.
The Islamists understand the tolerance and multiculturalism of the West as weaknesses to exploit rather than kindnesses to reciprocate. They pay back the dole with gunfire. Ahmed Almuhamed, saved off a sinking refugee boat by the Greeks, returned the favor by shooting up a packed concert hall. The English language lacks a word describing such off-the-charts ingratitude. Perhaps the French now have one. Almuhameditude?
"The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism," Samuel Huntington concluded two decades ago in The Clash of Civilizations. "It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.
UPDATE: Incredible photo, via @LewRockwell -- payday at a Paris welfare office ("Photo taken in front of Social Security Family Benefits Office in Rosny-sous-Bois" -- which is actually a suburb of Paris).







Based on this they don't sound like much of a threat to the Western way of life - more like Dengue fever, or a social disease (Charlie Sheen comes to mind). It's kind of a relief to know we're under attack by the slacker generation of Muslims.
Canvasback at November 22, 2015 12:00 AM
http://www.politico.eu/article/molenbeek-broke-my-heart-radicalization-suburb-brussels-gentrification/
Bill O Rights at November 22, 2015 8:11 AM
I see Bill O' Rights beat me to that linkie. The first paragraph:
Michael Yon has taken to calling this PIMP = Poor IMmigration Policy. And now our "betters" tell us we should do the same?
I R A Darth Aggie at November 22, 2015 8:19 AM
Shorter lesson: idle hands are the devil's workshop.
I R A Darth Aggie at November 22, 2015 8:21 AM
The most peaceful societies throughout history have been Homogeneous. The most violent ...less so.
Matt at November 22, 2015 9:13 PM
This is not to downplay the negative aspect of Islam they bring with them, but I think France's overprotective labor laws are a big part of the problem (in France).
I know lots of business owners who love France and the idea of opening a satellite office there, but balked when they saw you have to pay severance for something like two years if you fire someone. It's a terrible place to do business, no wonder unemployment is so high.
There was a great Atlantic article about this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/europe-muslims-paris-terrorism/416964/
NicoleK at November 23, 2015 12:28 AM
he slept during business hours, watched DVDs, and smoked "alarming" amounts of marijuana
this does not sound all that different from the lifestyle of the trailers in the "hollers" of West Virginny, Cain-tuck-hee or southern Ohio.
Stinky the Clown at November 23, 2015 4:50 AM
"Immigration Minus Assimilation Means Conflict"
I love it when Amy and Heartiste align. He's been talking this up for ages, "Diversity + Proximity = War".
bkmale at November 23, 2015 7:34 AM
Also: War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength
Stinky the Clown at November 23, 2015 7:55 AM
Part of western Europe's problem is that it has never done assimilation very well. (For most of the past 150 years, it hasn't had to, because there has been little immigration.) But in Europe's defense, the current wave thinks of itself as an invading force. Its specific goal is to not be assimilated.
Cousin Dave at November 23, 2015 11:13 AM
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