Brits & Islamists

Submitted by LDC (United States), Feb 6, 2007 at 17:04

I'm hoping they're awakening to the danger as their law enforcement folks continue to interdict plots after the shock of the tube bombings. They have become exceedingly tolerant people, perhaps to a fault, but there is a boundary to that tolerance.

It's the French and what they are capable of doing when (not "if") their Arab street more fully erupts that I wonder more about. Their proclivity to respond to those whom they perceive as destructive foreigners among them (citizens or not), as expressed in their collaboration with the Nazis to identify and hand-over Jews, is one that belligerent French Muslims should keep in mind. Sooner or later the push-back will come, and it will not be bloodless. The hesitation of the French military since 1918 does not translate into a long-passive police force.

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