Who Is Rioting In France?

Vol. 10.26.26 – The Islamomarxists

With the riots in France, one wonders if we are watching the first act in the fall of the West. As the author of Lessons from Fallen Civilizations – Why Great Societies fail, please allow me to posit—in addition to rioting high school students, we are witnessing the marriage of two major enemies of Western Civilization. They are the armies of Allah and the Neo Bolsheviks.

It has been said by various historians in various ways—Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. To this admonition, I would add—If the West did know its history, it would never have allowed large numbers of Muslims into Western Europe or the United States.

The American political commentator, Joel Ross writes, There are no good answers for France. It is out of money, has no economic growth and can no longer borrow its way out of this crisis. France needs massive entitlement reform, but the Left and the unions won’t allow that reform.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French conservative movement, wants to lower the retirement age to 60, but French pension plans are already bankrupt. Despite entitlements in France being financially unsustainable, the average Frenchman does not want to give them up. This means the French economy may collapse. No one knows what sort of financial and humanitarian crises would then result in greater Europe.

The US economy seems to be more stable despite our $40 trillion national debt and despite the industrial size theft being perpetrated against the system by our own government officials and sundry foreign-born claimants.

However, if the Democrats take control of both houses of Congress, the outlook for our economy will worsen rapidly, higher taxes, possibly a national wealth tax, massive new regulation, new entitlement increases, and a reopening of borders are likely outcomes. That may be just for starters.

The structural issues plaguing both Europe and the US are a shrinking tax base and out-of-control entitlements.

What do French reporters say about the composition and motives of the rioters in their major cities? French journalist, Nora Bussigny, went undercover for ten years and exhaustively investigated the organizations who are supporting them. To be fair, the rioters are joined by students who are appalled by their crumbling schools, by anarchists, and opportunistic thieves.

Nora writes, “You might think that our chaos was orchestrated by the same students who started the protests. But you would be wrong. The October 17 protests were meticulously prepared, organized, and justified by a concerted coalition of Islamists, antifascists, and radical environmentalists. They share a precise project: the rejection of France’s democratic institutions, and a desire to destabilize those institutions and cause the Republic to topple.”

As I predicted in a previous edition of this column, the riots have been massively augmented by the red-green coalition of radical leftists and political Islamists. They have formed an alliance due to their shared opposition to Western values and institutions.

One of the main faces of the movement is Soumaya Sarré, a Muslim activist student with RED Jeunes who, like our own Abdul El Sayed, also supports the far-left party, La France Insoumise, (France Unbowed) the left-wing political party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2016. Sarré instigates high school protests by posting to her Instagram account. “The more of us there are, the less they’ll be able to bring us down,” she writes.

Sarré railed against French president, “Macron, you’re out of line!” she writes. “You get to school, they tell you to take off your veil…You wear a long dress, they say it’s an abaya, they send you home…Now you ask for a teacher in front of you, a decent classroom to have class in, and they send the police when you mobilize!”

The French student rioters can count on influencers to amplify their messages, keeping their online followers angry, and vastly increasing their numbers. Some are even Iranian Regime operatives.

Shahin Hazamy, a radical-left activist who was convicted last September of inciting terrorism after October 7, a charge he is still appealing. At his trial, the prosecutors revealed he repeatedly posted and circulated messages from the Islamic Republic to his 200,000 followers. Hazamy holds Iranian press credentials and has never hidden his ties to the regime from his followers, nor his trips back and forth to the country.

Urgence Palestine is not only a French pro Palestine group but a militant Islamist group, closely tied to NeoBolshevic groups like La France Insoumise. The two support each other and frequently collaborate on protests and advocacy. They use the same victim narrative to describe the Palestinian terrorists held in Israel as they do about French protesters.

On October 12, the organizations collaborated in a published statement in which they allege police violence against young protesters and draw a link: “This repression is not unrelated to the brutality exercised by the Zionist colonial entity toward the Palestinian population, which illustrates the colonial continuum at work.” It called for the support of “the resistance of youth,” for “Generation Gaza,” and for “the student intifada that refuses to witness a genocide.”

On September 29, Hazamy posted a video with the caption: “Police violence against high schoolers reported in several cities during school blockades.” The video depicts protesters being grabbed and detained by police; it received a million views in just a few hours, now viewed over six million times. He continuously posts many other videos of alleged police violence, without context, but always intended to stoke anger.

For many protesters, all the above narratives lead to an undeniable conclusion: Violence is justified. “A shop window can be repaired,” said one rioter and a recent graduated from Génération, the French underground anti-police leadership training program. “Our lives can’t.”

Frenchmen who wish to remain free might ask, “Can the burnt down Limoges City Hall be repaired without taxpayers’ money? What may be far harder to repair is a new generation which has taken to the streets and formed up as a mob to demand better teachers and classrooms and found it is marching, unknowingly, alongside the radical left, the Muslim Brotherhood, and a mouthpiece for Tehran.

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