by Giulio Meotti
The name Bordeaux – the sixth metropolitan area of France (1,200,000 inhabitants) – evokes a legendary wine, the cathedral, Montaigne, Montesquieu and the Bourbons.
But demography makes history and numbers make culture.
So a few days ago some parents of students from the Emile Combes college in Bordeaux discovered that the meal offered was halal. An exclusively halal menu, says Bfmtv. Parents are “restless”. And they are right to be. Maybe they remember when, ten years ago, Le Monde branded the fear of halal in schools as a “right-wing conspiracy”. The left lügenpresse.
In vino veritas! Will Bordeaux vines one day end up in the hands of tough guys like Ayatollah Khomeini, who when he took power in Iran in 1979 the first thing he did was destroy tons of bottles of wine found in hotels and clubs? The advent of the Taliban in Kabul was “celebrated” under the tracks of a Russian tank which destroyed 1,400 cases of wine and spirits. Kemal Atatürk is hated by Erdogan, who calls him “the drunkard”.
After the departure of the Israelis, one of the first acts of the Islamic regime of Hamas in Gaza was the ban on alcohol (the few remaining Christians use stolen wine for mass).
In Tunisia, the advent of Islam in the eighth century wiped out the vines. Until the arrival of the French in the nineteenth century. Then, with the “Arab winter”, sorry spring, the Islamists attacked the owners of shops that sell alcohol. Until the 1970s, Algeria was the fourth largest wine producer in the world. Then, in the 1990s, the mujahideen announced: “We will cut the lips of anyone who drinks alcohol.”
Socialist secularism has already shown that it is not sober about Islam. At the Elysée, François Hollande on November 10, 2015 (three days before the great attacks with 130 dead) was ready to receive the Iranian Hassan Rohani. As per protocol, a diplomatic lunch washed down with Bordeaux. The Iranian delegation demanded that alcohol be banned from the table and a “halal menu” served.
In recent days, making the left ulcerate, Emmanuel Macron used a strange term on the lips of a liberal technocrat: “decivilization”. Which assumes that there is a civilization.
But we said that demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so the archdiocese of Bordeaux came to finance the mosques.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so the diocese sells its old and empty churches on the Internet.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. Out of 249,000 inhabitants, Bordeaux already had 70,000 Muslims in 2015. One third of the total population. And towns in its metropolitan area, such as Pessac, already have 25 percent Muslims out of 50,000 inhabitants.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so the Bordeaux area has 92 mosques. They call it “Garonnistan”, from the name of the river that flows through Bordeaux.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so the city of Bordeaux has rewritten the names of the streets by adding whether the famous fellow citizen was a slaver (this was decided by Malik Fetouh, head of “diversity” of the town hall, with regard to demography and culture).
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so Bordeaux has made headlines for shops asking “sisters” to come on Saturdays and Sundays and “brothers” on weekdays.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so in Bordeaux every Friday there are “street prayers” near the mosque in the Grand Parc. From 1,000 to 1,600 worshipers gather near a building that has up to three hundred indoor seats.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. And so no more Christmas trees in Bordeaux thanks to the mayor of the Greens, Pierre Humic: “We will not put dead trees in the squares of the city”.
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. Thus Hollande’s electoral campaign web manager, socialist deputy Vincent Feltesse, promised 50,000 for a mosque project in Bordeaux in the middle of the campaign for the municipals. How do I sell you sacred secularism for submission…
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. In 732 the emir of Al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman, led his troops towards Aquitania. They devastated the suburbs of Bordeaux, burned the churches and the Duke of Aquitaine, Eudes, was unable to repel the opponent and had to flee, forced to recall an old enemy: Charles, who will stop them in Poitiers. Nimes, Agde and Béziers were liberated five years later.
Muslims moved to Italy. They landed in Ostia, sacked the basilicas of San Pietro and San Paolo. They occupied Bari and Brindisi for thirty years, Taranto for forty, Benevento for ten, attacked Naples, Capua, Calabria, Sardinia several times, destroyed the abbey of Montecassino; they carried out raids in northern Italy, crossing the Alps. To counter the Muslim marauders, Arduino Glabrione built a mighty castle with high towers on the high ground of Avigliana, in Val di Susa. Today it is one of the most beautiful in Piedmont.
Edward Gibbon in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” wrote of what would have happened if al-Rahman had won at Poitiers, when Charles Martel drove back the invading Muslim hordes: “A thousand miles long line of victories was drawn from Gibraltar to the Loire. A repetition of such victories would have brought the Saracens to the borders of Poland and the highlands of Scotland; in fact the Rhine is no more impassable than the Nile and the Euphrates and the Arab fleet could have sailed unopposed up to the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would be taught today in Oxford schools and pupils would explain to a flock of circumcised the sanctity of the truth and of Muhammad’s revelation. From such calamities the Christian world was saved by the genius and fortune of one man. Charles, the illegitimate son of Pepin the Elder…”.
Today it seems that many European peoples have decided to capitulate gently. On the other hand, the historic mayor of Bordeaux, the former Gaullist leader and prime minister Alain Juppé, is perhaps not called “Ali Juppé” for his close ties to Islam, even if in a televised exchange with Michel Onfray he confessed to have never read the Koran?
Demography makes history and numbers make culture. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Gibbon wrote: “And the vineyards of Gascony became the possessions of the sovereign of Damascus and Samarkand, and the south of France, from the mouth of the Garonne to that of the Rhone, accepted the customs and religion of Arabia”.
1,200 years after Poitiers, “Halal France” was born. Chapeau! Bismillah! It will be a fantastic Europe!
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