Tiberge of Gallia Watch quotes this from the French publication Novopress:
The total of non-European immigrants who, per year, are either born or who come to settle in France is more than 500,00, which represents a supply of 15 to 20 million non-Europeans.She then adds her commentary:
Note: Twenty million is the highest figure I have seen in a reliable blog article. I had seen fifteen million, a figure cited by Algerian politician Azouz Begag, and by Marine Le Pen. Twenty million is about one third of the entire population. And we know European births are not keeping up. Even if French women began having more children they could never overtake the foreign population. So "re-migration" is essential, in addition to a new policy favoring traditional families that should be rewarded for having children. In recent years socialist/progressive governments have cut the benefits to families in favor of benefits to foreigners. A recent article I read says that traditional families are "old hat", retrograde, obsolete...There are many interesting factors here which I comment on below:
1. "A recent article I read says that traditional families are "old hat", retrograde, obsolete..."
Yes "traditional" is the key word.
That doesn't mean just French cultural traditions but religious traditions also.
We can all talk about the beautiful French architecture, its intellectual tradition, and the long artistic legacy. All these will continue for many decades to come, albeit with declines along the way (e.g. postmodernism hasn't destroyed such legacies, which and still continue behind the musty walls of arts and academic institutions).
But what is at the core of this modern (as in contemporary and not "modernist") legacy and tradition is the religious foundation of French culture, its Catholic Christian heritage.
2. "Even if French women began having more children they could never overtake the foreign population. So "re-migration" is essential..."
The problem with re-immigration is that it assumes that it is the "immigrants" who are the primary problem. In fact many of these "immigrants" are in one way or another "citizens" and the country's laws and institutions treat them as such.
3. "...a new policy favoring traditional families that should be rewarded for having children. In recent years socialist/progressive governments have cut the benefits to families in favor of benefits to foreigners."
Once again the words have to be carefully defined:
- Traditional families:
-- Families with a mother and a father, where the father is the head of the household and the primary (if not the main) income earner.
-- Which pledge a written (and law-binding) allegiance to specific French legacies - e.g. the religious, cultural and historical roots of French civilization as coming from France and Western Europe, via a Greco-Roman inheritance, and through its Catholic Christian foundation.
(For example, Muslims can have allegiances to traditions and cultures but which have nothing in common with this specifically defined French one, nor do they want to have one as demonstrated by conflicts and segregations now a common part of life in large French towns and cities. Even Paris, as beautiful is a segregated city).
And thus only such French families will be "rewarded" for having children as well as receiving the "benefits" of having children.
No more subsidization of immigrant children and families, who will later on denounce the French.
Under the "tolerant" regulations in France, Muslims can (and have in some local pockets) instate their own traditions, such as Halal foods (food blessed in the name of Allah) in public places, build mosques, instate bi-language laws in public institutions (in Arabic and French), demand legal procedures following Sharia law, require Arabic culture and history education in public schools etc.
They present a traditional adherence but not the French tradition. And this, as the years and decades progress, will eventually con-exist (which it has done so in certain areas of French life - e.g. the school system) and could dominate some parts of French life, politics and culture.
Many of these have already happened in various pockets (now no longer isolated) around France.
Definitions are important. And bold and forthright ones which leave very little room for reinterpretation.
- Foreigner:
The least generous and perhaps most honest explanation for "foreigner" comes from an online dictionary:
a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your countryHow interesting to classify a foreigner as someone not owing allegiance to one's country.
No immigrant anywhere, - France or Canada or the US -, is now required to "owe allegiance" to a particular (Western) country. Instead accommodating multicultural laws and regulations allow for institutionalized non-allegiance by foreigners. In fact, opposing this can bring on a rash of lawsuits, based on various categories of discrimination. In Canada you could face the Human Rights Commission and potentially lose your job, your business, your money, and most certainly your reputation. You will be made to feel so uncomfortable you have two options: to capitulate (i.e. apologize with lots of hand wringing) or leave.
"White flight" has now become a phrase in the dictionary.
The Novepress article makes a similar definition about "foreigner, although it stops short:
...officiellement, un « immigré » est une personne, résidant en France, née à l’étranger et de nationalité étrangère à sa naissance. Ce qui évacue de ces statistiques tous les immigrés de la troisième génération et des générations suivantes… précisément celles où recrutent les djihadistes !-
...officially an immigrant is someone who lives in France, born in a foreign country and with a foreign nationality
[KPA: at birth although I think this is redundant.
- Translation KPA].
Western people have to start thinking like lawyers rather than cultural observers.
Finally, pessimism is dangerous. It leads to nihilism and self-destruction. Part of the West's crisis comes from this lack of (abandoning of) God and faith. It comes from a lack of spiritual strength. We don't know what God has ready for us. We don't know what tomorrow brings.
We have a battle to confront right now. It could determine be our very existence. It could be the difference between our resurgence and renaissance or our death as a civilization. But we cannot do it alone. We have to as forgiveness for all the errors we have committed, then we need to pray and ask for guidance.
And we can do it.