Islam meets soccer in France… what could possibly go wrong?
European soccer fans can get rowdy even under normal circumstances, but throw Islam plus immigrant nationalism into the mix, and the situation becomes still more incendiary, as shown in Saturday’s fracas. The port city of Marseille experienced an outbreak of serious rioting when local Algerians became miffed at their team’s poor showing in a World Cup qualifier match that took place in Cairo.
Authorities sent in more than 500 police to restore order on the streets — diversity doesn’t come cheap.
Rioters smashed shop windows, hurled stones at police and set fire to several boats moored in the southern French port of Marseille after Egypt beat Algeria in a soccer World Cup qualifying match on Saturday.
A police spokesman said more than 500 officers were deployed in the centre of Marseille, an often volatile city with a large North African immigrant population and football supporters who are considered among the most passionate in France.
Egypt won the match, which was played in Cairo, 2-0.
Police said they had made eight arrests, mostly for throwing objects, while one man was arrested for setting fire to a rubbish bin.
At least six boats were damaged and two were sunk when a fire was sparked by a smoke bomb of the kind seen frequently in French football stadiums.
We haven’t had a good Sammy Sosa story in a while, so here’s a new one with pictures of how the ex-Cubs slugger is only half as dark as he used to be. Some of the difference is probably just the lighting in the latest picture — my passport photo, for example, is so overexposed that I look like Tilda Swinton’s dad’s ghost. Still, the article makes clear by the lengths to which Sosa’s PR agent goes on, that something is going on.
Steve’s Idea of the Day for Bored Reporters: show these pictures to White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. Record his comments. (For readers unfamiliar with his personality, here’s the video Ozzie Guillen Visits a Sick Child from the Chicago public access cable show We’re Geniuses in France.)
You might think that with all the media interest in this question, journalists might occasionally look up on Google something about anthropologist Peter Frost’s book Fair Women, Dark Men: The Forgotten Roots of Color Prejudice, which answers the question. But, nah, finding out the answer is hardly the point of asking, so Frost’s book is almost unknown. Frost, by the way, explain why Sammy’s new highly-contrasting-cheeks-and-lips look is not a good look for guys.
Today, the mix of envy and loathing of the West, especially of white Americans, is apparent in daily life.
The government and media obsess over each new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, to see how the country ranks against other developed economies. A hugely popular television program is “Chit Chat of Beautiful Ladies” — a show where young, attractive, mostly Caucasian women who are fluent in Korean discuss South Korea. Yet, when South Koreans refer to Americans in private conversations, they nearly always attach the same suffix as when they talk about the Japanese and Chinese, their historical masters: “nom,” which means “bastards.” …
Ms. Hahn said that after the incident in the bus last July, her family was “turned upside down.” Her father and other relatives grilled her as to whether she was dating Mr. Hussain. But when a cousin recently married a German, “all my relatives envied her, as if her marriage was a boon to our family,” she said.
The Foreign Ministry supports an anti-discrimination law, said Kim Se-won, a ministry official. In 2007, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recommended that South Korea adopt such a law, deploring the widespread use of terms like “pure blood” and “mixed blood.” It urged public education to overcome the notion that South Korea was “ethnically homogenous,” which, it said, “no longer corresponds to the actual situation.”
But a recent forum to discuss proposed legislation against racial discrimination turned into a shouting match when several critics who had networked through the Internet showed up. They charged that such a law would only encourage even more migrant workers to come to South Korea, pushing native workers out of jobs and creating crime-infested slums. They also said it was too difficult to define what was racially or culturally offensive.
“Our ethnic homogeneity is a blessing,” said one of the critics, Lee Sung-bok, a bricklayer who said his job was threatened by migrant workers. “If they keep flooding in, who can guarantee our country won’t be torn apart by ethnic war as in Sri Lanka?”
Generally speaking, rescuing your country from conquest and then garrisoning your troops there for half a century to prevent another war doesn’t make you popular. The French loved us when we owed them a favor for the Revolutionary War, but us bailing them out in two 20th Century wars has reversed their feelings. Thus, President De Gaulle kicked American troops out of France in the 1960s, which probably helped turned down the emotional temperature.
Here’s a recent diversity moment from today’s Islamified Denmark. Ouch!
Danish police said on Thursday that a Palestinian father had hit a primary school teacher and bitten his ear after he had shaken the hand of the man’s daughter.
The 47-year-old Danish teacher of Moroccan origin had invited the father and daughter for a meeting at the school in the town of Vollsmose on Wednesday when he had been “repeatedly hit and bitten in the ear”, the police said.
“The father, a Palestinian, apparently became furious that the teacher had greeted his daughter just before a meeting,” said Joergen Andersen, the police superintendent in the nearby city of Odense.
The 33-year-old father, a Muslim, said the teacher had “gone too far and offended his honour”, Andersen said.
“The man is apparently not a fundamentalist,” Andersen said. But he “could not accept this handshake between the teacher and his daughter”. [Man bites teacher for shaking daughter's hand, Agence France PresseOctober 24, 2009 ]
Well, how fortunate that the chomper was not a fundamentalist. Who knows what he might have done in that case?
We’ve been worrying recently about the American Enterprise Institute’s Jason Richwine because he’s so effective. Recently, he even managed to get an attack on Linda Chavez’ Hispanic hype into the Dallas Morning News, of all places:
Though we want to believe Hispanics are on the old European path to economic assimilation, the evidence does not support our desires. This fact becomes more undeniable with each new data set collected and each new analysis performed, but prominent commentators are still seduced by wishful thinking.
Earlier this week, for example, columnist Linda Chavez, in a piece published in Viewpoints, reiterated her belief that Hispanics are just like other immigrant groups and that their economic progress leaves little to worry about. She is wrong…
The Hispanic first generation is quite poor, on average, with adult men earning little more than half the annual income earned by white natives. Though still relatively poor, second-generation men make considerable progress, increasing their average income to around 80 percent of the white average.
If we were to end the analysis here, we might conclude that Hispanics are right on track toward economic assimilation. The problem is that assimilation promptly stalls with the second generation. The Hispanic third generation makes no further progress and remains significantly poorer than white natives.
The same story is true for education. Though much better educated than their immigrant parents, the Hispanic second generation drops out of high school at more than twice the white rate and graduates from college at less than 60 percent of the white rate. The third generation does no better.
These facts are not in dispute. They can be confirmed by examining any major dataset that separates the second and third Hispanic generations. So how can some observers still be so optimistic?
Often they highlight the progress between the first and second generations without looking at the third. Other times they focus on side issues and factoids without considering the big picture.
Chavez falls into the latter category with her recent column.
We (or at any rate I) worry about Linda Chavez too. Back in 2001, we were even sorry she was dropped by Dubya as Secretary of Labor because of a (guess what) illegal alien servant scandal. She’s so charming and reasonable in personal conversation and so useless in print. I presume her stuff is no longer ghosted by the appalling John J. Miller (whom we seem to have scared out of the immigration debate). But given Miller’s standard of veracity, you never know.
Horse rustling, in which the horses are not stolen and ridden away, as in Old West horse theft, but where the horses are killed and butchered on the spot, turned into steaks and chops, and carried away in pickups and vans, is now a problem in South Florida. The reason: the area’s Hispanic population, which includes communities of people with a taste for horsemeat, and communities of people with a taste for theft. USA Today actually says this in an article on the subject:
He said some butchers in Miami have stolen frozen horse meat in their stores for trustworthy customers. Sometimes the meat is sold in neighborhoods out of coolers.
The meat sells for $10-$20 a pound depending on the cut. It can be as high as $40 a pound when supply is short.
Couto said some Miami restaurants serve horse meat, which is considered to be sweeter, less fatty and higher in protein than beef. In European countries such as France, Italy and Belgium, the meat is seen as a delicacy.
It is also eaten widely in Central and South America, where it is believed to have medicinal value, Couto said.
Paris had a little diversity riot at de Gaulle Airport that shut a terminal down for several hours. Like some other instances of unrest in immigration-foolish France, the behavior followed an allegedly rough arrest of a member of a certain ethnic group, vaguely referenced in the article.
Until a decade ago, taxi driving in Paris was an almost exclusively male, middle-aged and white profession. But many women and men from immigrant backgrounds have bought or rented taxi badges and drivers say that tensions with the 70-strong police taxi unit sometimes have racial undertones. The police deny the claim and say they have been trying to persuade the drivers to return to Paris and comb the streets for fares rather than allow their cars to pile up in excessive numbers of up to 300 at the airport. [Taxi drivers revolt at Paris airport over 'brutal' arrest, September 2, 2009 ]
Justice has finally been served now that an illegal alien murderer who terrorized part of Montgomery County with worsening home-invasion robberies has been sentenced to life with no parole.
The killer, Jose Garcia-Perlera, preyed upon elderly women living alone, and became acquainted with at least one victim by working as a handyman in her home (never a good idea). That woman, Ann Wolfe, had been tied up for two days until her daughter found her. She later reported, “He was a deliberate planner. He worked at my house for six days, a year and a half before [he attacked]… He remembered me and stalked me. He is a very, very dangerous man.”
Mary Frances Havenstein, 63, was found beaten to death in her bedroom in Bethesda. She is pictured here with her husband Paul in 2000.
The police caught the killer because of a stolen computer he had left at a local pawn shop. Officers then searched Garcia-Perlera’s home, where a treasure trove of stolen swag was found. One unmistakable item was the Mercury space mission medallion kept by Mary Havenstein as a keepsake of her late husband who had worked on the project.
In the Washington Post article, the killer was initially identified as “a Hyattsville man,” and the paper only later mentioned his immigration status and how he came to be present in America to commit a series of violent crimes.
In a report submitted to [Judge Michael] Mason, which the judge said he would make part of the case file, Delgado described Garcia-Perlera’s poor upbringing in El Salvador, where he studied to be an electrician. About 2000, Garcia-Perlera left with a friend to walk to the United States. He was caught after crossing the border illegally but was set free pending his immigration removal hearing, according to Mason and immigration officials.
Garcia-Perlera did not show up for the hearing, officials said, and worked briefly in Texas. He met a woman who bought him food and a bus ticket to New York, Delgado wrote in his report, and lived in Queens, picking up work at a restaurant.
Garcia-Perlera also picked up an arrest warrant for a burglary, according to prosecutors, and left for Maryland. Once in the Washington area, he worked as an electrician and handyman. He briefly worked in Wolfe’s home in Potomac.
His attacks escalated in violence. He entered Havenstein’s Bethesda home in September, and a relative found her body when she arrived to pick her up for a medical appointment. Havenstein’s phone lines were cut. Medical examiners were not certain when she died.
“She died a terrible death,” State’s Attorney John McCarthy said in court. “She was helpless on that floor, beaten, broken, no phone…. Did she last an hour? Two hours? Did she last a couple of days?”
As the home invasions spread, residents grew more concerned. About 700 turned out for a community meeting in the weeks after Havenstein’s death.
[Man Gets Life Term For Vicious Attacks, Washington Post, August 14, 2009]
As is so common in these cases, the legal system was not serious about holding and punishing a foreign criminal. The media spin is that he got away from a previous brush with the law: Home invasion, murder suspect escaped from N.Y. police in 2000, officials say. What happened is the illegal alien was released on bond in a burglary case and left town. What a surprise.
When it comes to healthcare on the public tab, big-ticket items like organ transplants immediately get people’s attention. The initial surgery is enormously expensive and the procedure requires a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. It was reported in 2008 that the “cost of a liver transplant and first-year follow-up is nearly $490,000, and anti-rejection medications can run more than $30,000 annually.”
A new illegal alien poster boy for free-to-them healthcare is Omar Castillo. Predictably, the press put on a full-tilt sob story to snooker the public, since Americans don’t want rare organs given to lawbreaking aliens instead of citizens; every organ given to a freeloading foreigner is one not given to a sick American who may die without it. In this case, Omar’s brother donated a kidney, but that’s unusual.
Reporting from Chicago - Pushing around a cart filled with steamed corn, sliced cucumbers and other street food, Omar Castillo is the embodiment of what has become a third rail in the healthcare debate.
The 19-year-old, who received a kidney transplant last year, is in the U.S. illegally and has no ready access to long-term medical care. So peddling snacks is how he pays for the expensive drugs he needs to stay healthy.
What a load. Omar doesn’t pay for his expensive medicine, the taxpayer does, albeit indirectly in this case.
To cover the needs of an estimated 6.8 million uninsured illegal immigrants, some advocates have proposed broadening the healthcare overhaul legislation now before Congress.
But fierce opposition has kept the idea off the table.
Castillo received his transplant and a year of free medicine as part of a hospital study at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago after lobbying by Latino activists and a call from the governor’s office. With the study over, his last free prescription is running out.
“We don’t know what we’ll do when the medicine is gone,” said Castillo, holding two nearly empty bottles of the immunosuppressants he takes to ward off an organ rejection.
Aliens quickly become accustomed to first-world medical care and come to see it as their rightful entitlement. Illegal alien and multiple tranplant recipient Ana Puente declared, “They should take care of me at UCLA for the rest of my life because I’ve been there since I was a baby.”
It is immoral, immigration activists say, for hospitals and doctors — as well as a nation — to deny healthcare to the seriously ill, no matter their legal status. But proponents of tougher immigration enforcement and others fighting to contain runaway costs fear that providing such services would encourage more illegal border crossings.
Immoral? Liberals are so virtuous with other people’s money.
If voters think we have a budget problem now, just wait till word gets around that America is the free Obamacare medical center for the world, no questions asked. There will be no sick people left overseas.
An August 7 WSJ article (France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost) included a sidebar of 30 nations’ healthcare expenditures as a percentage of GDP. Mexico (5.9%) ranked just above rock-bottom Turkey (5.7%). Mexicans evidently think they can more easily outsource their expensive medical cases to the stupidly obliging Uncle Sucker to the north.
The Chicago ABC affiliate put up a video last year about the pre-surgery complain-a-thon, but nothing more recent that I can find. It shows more of Omar than you might want to see, including his gangsterish haircut and plaintive appeals in Spanish.
Obviously, the U.S. government can’t afford all its overseas commitments. So, which should we cut back and how much would we save by leaving Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Germany, Kenya, and the like? (more…)
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A new illegal alien poster boy for free-to-them healthcare is Omar Castillo. Predictably, the press put on a full-tilt sob story to snooker the public, since Americans don’t want rare organs given to lawbreaking aliens instead of citizens; every organ given to a freeloading foreigner is one not given to a sick American who may die without it. In this case, Omar’s brother donated a kidney, but that’s unusual.
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