The Canary Has Died

The whole point of the canary in the coal mine is to warn of deadly danger. When the twittering stops and you turn round to find the little chap has breathed his last you have a choice: do something or die.

In Europe the canary has just keeled over but everybody seems inclined to nail him back on his perch like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch.

To no media fanfare whatsoever (incredibly), French president Francois Holland has announced that 7,000 of the 10,000 soldiers deployed in January to protect 722 Jewish schools and synagogues will remain permanently on the streets of France. What was originally a crisis deployment following the murder of 17 people in Paris is now the new normal. The reality of contemporary France is that thousands of soldiers must patrol the streets to deter Muslims from murdering their fellow citizens.

That’s the dead canary. It should tell anybody with an IQ north of a pot plant that something is badly wrong with contemporary France and that something must be done right now. But another terrible aspect of the threat is that nobody in any position of power or influence in France will dare denounce the aggressors. It’s as if nobody could bring themselves to mention Nazism in connection to the rising threat of war in the 1930s. This is not an inter-communal problem between Jews and Muslims as “The Troubles” of Northern Ireland were a struggle between British Unionists and Irish nationalists. It’s not even a struggle between Muslims and wider French society. There is no reciprocity. It is simply the case of supremacist Muslims attacking the rest of society and particularly Jews.

The 164 incidents of actual violence against Jews recorded last year in France are merely the tip of the iceberg. As Israeli journalist Zvika Klein and others have vividly demonstrated no Jew can openly walk the streets of their own country without being subjected to constant abuse and threats. The sheer scale of the pogrom can be appreciated simply by googling the words Jew, attack and France. To keep the sample to a manageable size add a filter to only include stories from the last month and you’ll get a vivid picture of the reality of life for Jews in the French Republic. Here’s a few of the headlines from my search:

40 Person Mob Assaults 2 Jews on Paris’ Boulevard Voltaire

French Jew Attacked Upon Leaving Synagogue in Paris

Paris Jew Pinned Down and Savagely Beaten in Anti-Semitic Attack

France: Muslims screaming “Hitler did not finish his work” assault Jewish woman

That’s just from the first page of the search and each refers to a different attack. Remember that these attacks are happening despite the deployment of 7,000 troops to protect Jews. Their own country is no longer their country. The canary has died.

       

In response to the resulting exodus of Jews from France the French prime minister lamented back in January that: “If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be French, the French Republic will be judged a failure.” And of course he was absolutely right. But they are leaving and in ever increasing numbers so what is he going to do about this destruction of his country?

The best start he and France could make would be to identify the problem. Let’s start with who it’s not. It’s not Islamism. It’s not extremism. It’s not even a perverted version of “the true faith” as British home secretary Theresa May likes to call her own cuddly view of the Muslim religion. It’s Islam. No majority Muslim country respects the equality of religious minorities. None. Not even secular Turkey in its heyday allowed the construction of a single church. The most important factor determining religious freedom across the globe is the percentage of Muslims in the population. The more Muslims the less freedom. It really is that simple. You can have mass Muslim immigration or you can have a modern secular society. Those soldiers patrolling the streets of France are a visible warning that you cannot have both.

    

While the French were still passively milling around in their millions with those ridiculous and deceitful “Je Suis Charlie” notices Theresa May decided get in on the cheap emoting by echoing the French prime minister. But having a tin ear she decided to combine it with a little sucking up to our fastest growing demographic:

“Without its Jews, Britain would not be Britain, just as without its Muslims, Britain would not be Britain – without its Sikhs, Christians and the people of other faiths, Britain would not be Britain.”

An example of a more outrageous reversal of the truth would be difficult to find. Hitler’s blaming his invasion of Poland on a Polish raid into Germany springs to mind for its breathtaking dishonesty.

Not only would Britain be Britain without its Muslims, it won’t be Britain for much longer with them!

The necessity of deploying troops permanently to the streets of France is as clear a call to action as we’re ever going to get. To adapt the famous Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch:

It’s not pining it’s passed on. This canary is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late canary. It’s a stiff, bereft of life. It rests in peace. If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies. It’s run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-canary!

The canary in the coal mine has died but the coal miners can’t stir themselves to act and so they wait passively for death.