Will America Become France?

By: Lisa Van Houten

During the month of October, anarchy erupted across France. More than half a million people engaged in violent riots – looting and destroying businesses, assaulting citizens trying to protect their property, setting fire to historic landmarks – such as the 143-year-old town hall in Limoges known for its architectural beauty. Yet the destruction wasn’t completely random; Jewish-owned shops were burned and vandalized while Muslim-owned shops on the same street were left alone. More than 1,000 French police officers were injured and over 2,400 people were arrested in one weekend alone.

The leftwing media continues to cover for their fellow leftists by spinning the story as “student-led protests.” Reporters have actually described the riots as “mostly peaceful” and as “scuffles … between police and small groups of protestors” – as video of these “scuffles” show cities ablaze.

This was not a demonstration or student protest. It was organized violence by a joint force of black-clad Marxists and Islamists, whose allegiance was revealed by the communist and Palestinian flags they waved. This is the Red-Green Alliance, an unholy marriage of radical leftists/Marxists and Islamists. On paper it seems like an unlikely merger, but what they share is a joint enemy – Western civilization rooted in Christianity and the constitutional form of government it birthed. This is why these rioters deface, topple, and burn historic statues, buildings, and churches– they represent that culture.

French President Emmanuel Macron went on French television and bemoaned the destruction, stating: “Looking at these images, we have all asked ourselves: What was going through their minds? How can French people do this to France?” Yet what Macron and leaders like him across Europe willfully ignore is that it is they who did this to their own nations. A large number of the insurgents aren’t truly “French” and have no allegiance to the country. All of Europe is suffering the consequences of suicidal immigration policies which allowed for the massive flood of Islamic migrants from the Middle East and Africa who have no interest in assimilating to French culture. Rather, for many, their goal is to overthrow European civilization. As Mohamed Akram Adlouni, a leader with the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote in a 1991 memorandum, their mission was to use immigration/civilization jihad as a means of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

J.D. Vance gave this warning: “Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. … I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn. And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.”

What’s happening in France, and much of Europe, should be a wake-up call to the United States. We’re already on the same path. We’ve seen the Marxist march through our educational institutions, brainwashing American students. In addition, one only has to look to places like Minnesota and Dearborn to see the impact of the mass infiltration of unvetted migrants who have no interest in assimilating to Western values. And then there’s the troubling personification of the Red-Green Alliance in politicians such as Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani – Islamists who also seek to implement socialist/communist policies. “The Red-Green Alliance is the most dangerous partnership in American politics, and the radical left is proud to be part of it,” stated Mike Davis, founder of The Article III Project. “Communists want your country. Islamists want your faith. They hate America, and they’ve figured out they’re stronger when they march together.”

Which is why we now see transgender flags flying next to “Free Palestine” flags. Secular leftists who oppose any hint of religious influence in society partner with Islamists whose goal is to implement Sharia law in the United States. LGBT radicals align with Muslims whose home country would stone them to death. It’s a modern-day version of the ancient proverb, the “enemy of my enemy is my friend.” And their shared enemy is the Christian worldview upon which our nation was founded and the inalienable rights which flowed from it.

However, this alliance of opposing ideologies is using the very system they seek to destroy to advance their agenda. As Kelsey Reinhardt writes for the Daily Signal: “Both movements are expert at weaponizing the freedoms of liberal societies against those societies themselves. The radical Left has spent decades using Western institutions— courts, universities, media, corporate HR departments–to advance an agenda of a cultural revolution … Islamism, in its political form, pursues a parallel strategy. Analysts describe it as “jihad by democracy”: using Western legal systems, financial influence, and political organizing to infiltrate institutions, elevate sympathetic figures, and gradually reshape the landscape …”

They rely on our silence, our “tolerance.” Yet accepting ideologies that seek the destruction of our nation and our values is not tolerance, but surrender. History is replete with civilizations that have fallen. We’d be foolish to think it couldn’t happen to America. However, the Red-Green Alliance is not the only threat. Each generation must preserve the inheritance we’ve received and pass it on to the next. Yet, not only have we failed to do so, millions of Americans no longer understand that the liberty they enjoy must go hand-in-hand with virtue. God is the source of the blessings of liberty, but He has been cut off from the public square and from the private lives of millions of Americans. When the tree is severed from the Root it will ultimately wither and fall.

When our nation was in the midst of a different kind of worldview battle, Abraham Lincoln laid out the choice before America: “We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.” The only way to nobly save what we’ve been given is to return to the One who gave it to us.

 

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