Truth is, I’m a bit hesitant to write this post, because for those who disagree with me, I’ll end up sounding like those dingbats that advocate genocide as the only solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Then again, of the twelve people that read this blog, only about three know who I am, and their minds are, I’m sure, beyond changing. Certainly, my initial dreams of attaining David Broder-like status (as a bloodless political savant) have yet to come true. I haven’t even been invited to comment on Montel, for crying out loud.
Getting back to the original point, it seems as though France’s suburbs (populated by, apparently, no particular ethnic or religious groups worth noting, although the generic appellation of “North African” suggests that they’re probably Liberians, “North” being a relative term, and all.) remain out of control, despite the good M. Chirac’s stated commitment to view all such rioting as a self-justifying expression of the prejudices and frustrations borne by the inhabitants of these neighborhoods, whose lack of any apparent identifiable ethnicity fails to shelter them from the evil prejudices of the French.
Anyhow, here’s my suggestion: take away their children. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with the genetic code of the average suicidal Islamist. So if we were to take their kids away and bring them up as normal human beings (see the Druze, if one is committed to bring them up Muslim). First of all, they grow up human, and second, this, I think would be a deterrent in the way that appeasement never is.
Let’s overlook how ridiculous this sounds, and observe that we do, in fact, send in the Social Services folks when a child’s environment falls below some level of acceptability. It is not a stretch to opine that when kids are encouraged (specifically, or as some general ideal) to actively hurt those whose religious contentions differ from their own, we're at that point.
‘A course, if someone’s got a better idea, I’m happy to hear it.
- Moishe Potemkin
Posted by MoisheP at November 6, 2005 08:23 PM | TrackBack