From: bernxard@

How well are Muslims integrating into French life?

Not well since my last trip there.

"A relative lack of interest in Islam has also been confirmed by the French
police in interviews with many of the young persons of North African descent
who have been apprehended and charged in the attacks [on Jews]. This is not
particularly surprising. In fact, until lately the image of Islamists in
French-North African popular culture was, if anything, likely to be a negative
one. Mahmoud Zemmouri’s 1997 movie 100% Arabica, starring the hugely popular
Algerian-born rai singers Khaled and Cheb Mami, depicts the imams in a French
banlieue as brutal puritanical power-mongers — and as being in bed with the
local political establishment to boot. The movie ends with a scene of a rai
concert being broken up by Islamist thugs swinging baseball bats."
--from John Rosenthal's article "Anti-semitism and Ethnicity in Europe" in the
current issue of Policy Review. Complete article at:

http://www.policyreview.org/oct03/rosenthal.html

So, apparently, the situation is filled with the usual complications.

so "282" is hardly likely to be impressive.
The number itself is not what is significant in this context. The significance
is how rapidly the Hispanic immigrant approaches the US average, however
wretched that may be, in *English* reading skill, suggesting that those who
insist Hispanics are forming a permanent internal alien class of non-English
speakers, are wrong.

Since Blacks test
for IQ at 85 and SECOND generation Hispanics only marignally better at
92 we are actualy seeing either a dysgenic effect an certainly a
lowering of education and cognitive abillity.

Damfino, but since those who predict these things are suggesting that the next
great wave of immigration into the US of A will come from East Asia, and since
people like J. Phillippe Rushton, developmental psychologist at the University
of Western Ontario, argue that "mogoloids" are like, um, really, really smart
(see for example, his essay "Race, brain size and intelligence" in Personality
and Individual Differences), maybe this doesn't matter, especially since males
of all races seem to eagerly breed with "mongoloid" women. Oh, dear,
miscegenation, that dreadful act that gives us such troglodytes as Tiger
Woods.

Very wide gaps between blacks and hispanics at one end of the scale
(getting worse and widening after a tiny improvement) and Whites are
very apparent.

There is some data and links to this he
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/no_excuses.htm

Clicking on that site I see a review of the book "No Excuses: Closing the
Racial Gap in Learning," by Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom and his wife,
Manhattan Institute think-tanker Abigail,
in which the reviewer summarizes the authors' findings as: "Why does this
racial learning gap exist? The Thernstroms’ basic argument is (to put it more
bluntly than they would): black and Hispanic students ain't dumb—they're just
lazy."

Granting that to be true, it says nothing about their native intelligence, as
you appear to suggest.

Whole regions of the US now have crap english and crap spannish as
some are even illiterat in their own tongue.

You don't say.

commentator Richard Rodriguez has announced that George W. Bush is our
first
"Hispanic" president.

Pfffft. Yep Bush is a bit of a pandering Quisling in that regard.

Rodriquez' view is that Bush sees the world in north-south terms rather than
east-west terms, thus making him "Hispanic" in world outlook. Don't know that
I agree with that assessment--or even understand its significance--but it did
strike me as interesting that a man of left-wing views whose father was born in
Mexico sees GW Bush as a "Hispanic."

Isn't Jeb married to a Hispanic?

Columba was born in--gasp! shudder!--Mexico. Interesting how many American
"conservatives" marry outside "the race"; another one who pops immediately to
mind is Sen. Phil Gramm,
married to Korean-American economist Wendy Lee.
Of course, this could be just a sign that race is rapidly declining in
significance in American life. Surveys of Generation Y, the largest birth
cohort in American history, indicate race, gender and sexual preference have
virtually zero significance for these young people, who tend to judge people on
an individual basis and not group them by category, as their elders so often
do. What a terrible development.

How to talk about race in the meocon Republican party. Don't.

Being a Democrat, I wouldn't know.



Chris Mark