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France and Europe are burning — is it too late to save them?

European cities are on fire, not just in France, but in Italy, Belgium, Greece and elsewhere. As I mentioned in yesterday’s piece: this is all about the diabolical alliance of Islam and Marxism. This is not some student protest in France and beyond. This is JIHAD! It is a civilisational struggle.

Simply consider what is happening in France. How long before the Louvre, the Palace of Versailles, Chartres Cathedral, and Notre-Dame Cathedral are also burned down to the ground by ‘students,’ ‘doctors’ and ‘lawyers’? Oh yeah, they already tried to burn down Notre-Dame.

And we know exactly who is really behind the burning of France and the destruction of Europe — as Jesus said in John 10:10, “The thief [Satan] comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” This is ultimately a spiritual war, but it is being played out on all levels: political, cultural, social, ideological and so on.

Here I offer a number of crucial quotes on all this, simply arranged alphabetically by author.

French journalist Paul Amar: They came prepared. They had the addresses of town halls. They had addresses of Jewish shop owners. In a street in Marseille, all businesses owned by Jews were set on fire. Businesses run by Muslims weren’t.

Eve Barlow: Many European countries recognised a state of Palestine without stipulating where it would be. Now they’re finding out.

Nioh Berg: Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, and that’s the only reason you’re even aware that France is a warzone tonight. Legacy media describes it as “scuffles” and “cost of living protests”. They’re lying to everyone’s faces. You and I are the media now.

Nioh Berg: Even if Marine Le Pen wins an overwhelming victory in France, I worry that it’s already too late. To save France requires not only mass deportations of illegals. It will require revoking citizens of thousands of dual national criminals. It will also require a Nayib Bukele in El Salvador style cleanup of the streets, and throwing the bottom 2% riot class of France in prison. It will require the willpower and mental strength to ignore legacy media, the infiltrated court system, the EU shitlib bureaucracy, and the millions of leftists willing to start a civil war to defend globalism. Does she have what it takes? I sure hope so.

Maarten Boudry: We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do. It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors. For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, Emmanuel Macron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel. Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite. So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonised here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalised historic buildings — a symbol of hatred for our civilisation and everything it stands for. It never ends with the Jews.

Dan Burmawi: Europe has 1.3 million Jews, most of them successful, law-abiding citizens. And it also has 50 million Muslims, the majority of whom live off government social services, are overrepresented in prisons, burn European cities every few months, stab Europeans randomly in the streets, behead journalists and politicians, and raped 250,000 British teenagers. Guess which side the useful-idiot European leaders have been empowering since October 7?

Melissa Chen: It’s funny how the commies who constantly tout the evils of private property and the moral urgency of redistribution always sprint straight for the monogrammed handbags the moment the alarm goes off. Personally, I find it hard to summon much sympathy when luxury stores get smashed and looted. Why? Because it’s the same industry that constantly embraces third-worldist leftism, sustainability theater, inclusion quotas, and progressive signaling. Recall that Vogue endorses Democratic candidates and majority of high fashion designers snub Melania Trump. Campaigns push all kinds of norm-busting avant garde ideas including open borders and BLM-adjacent slogans, while relying on know-nothing woke celebrities to amplify their message. These brands have spent decades cultivating an ideology to appeal to a consumer class (like Hasan Piker lol) that treats property as negotiable, heritage as contemptible, order as oppression, and hierarchy as something to be dismantled. So when the mob turns on the glass and marble of their own boutiques, this is simply known as being hoisted by their own petard. The Limoges town hall, on the other hand, is different. Its destruction is the loss of something irreplaceable, and I mourn it.

Dr Eli David: Import Palestinians. Recognize Palestine. Become Palestine.

Dr Eli David: Fun fact: Not a single mosque was damaged during the riots in France.

Dr Eli David: Elon Musk predicted what’s happening in France: “If you get lots of immigrants who oppose Western values, you are setting yourself up for civil war.”

Sofia Afonso Ferreira: A country that doesn’t exist is destroying the others. France was among the first to formally recognise a Palestinian state, betting that early mercy would buy quiet. Instead it got the familiar sequence — import the constituency, recognise the cause, watch the host country become unrecognisable. The same streets filled with Palestinian flags — the black, white, green and red of the Abbasid, Umayyad, Fatimid and Hashemite traditions — while the French tricolour disappeared.

Matt Goodwin: European elites laughed when the US State Department and Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers warned about “civilisational erasure” within a few decades. Now look at France. They’re not laughing now.

Pauline Hanson: France is burning. End mass migration or the same will come to Australia.

Jake Hilton: How’s all that liberalism, open borders, soft on crime, and multiculturalism working out for you? Remember, everyone: Diversity is our greatest strength.

Benny Johnson: Europe has imported an ideology that is incompatible with the cultures in their countries and now they’re seeing the consequences.
Number of Muslims in:
England: 1980: 550,000 2000: 1.5 million 2026: 4.2–4.5 million
Spain: 1980: 20,000–40,000 2000: 200,000–300,000 2026: 2.5 million
France: 1980: 1.5–2.5 million 2000: 3.7–4.2 million 2026: 6–7 million
It’s going to get worse unless they get serious…

Prof. Jeffrey Lax: For the second time in a century, France has handed over its country to the most despicable and evil tyrannical forces on earth. But is Britain strong enough to save them this time? Is the US? Russia certainly ain’t coming to help. Is the free western world coming to an end?

Mark R. Levin: The more you watch France burn and the UK devoured by the Islamists, as well as the rest of Western Europe, it makes you appreciate Benjamin Netanyahu 1000 times more and despise the left-wing appeaser governments and quislings 1000 times more. Israel has an iron will to survive. These Western Marxist governments have ushered in the Islamist mobs and are responsible for the destruction of their societies.

Lara Logan: It’s not going to get better because this is the outcome they want. And they have a plan. You accept this and they move the goal posts again. And again and again. Until there is nothing left that you recognise and you have lost everything. And then it’s the gas chambers or something similar. And you may wish you’d done something before you were reduced to nothing and had no fight left in you.

Dr Maria Maalouf: Not a single Muslim-owned shop or mosque was looted during the riots in France. On one street in Marseille, where 40% of the population is Muslim, ALL Jewish-owned businesses were set on fire, while not a single Muslim-owned business was touched. The odds of that happening by random chance are 1 in 123 billion. These were targeted pogroms. The rioters had lists of addresses identifying which shops to attack.

Dr Maria Maalouf: What’s happening in France is what always happens when Islam and the left join forces. It’s called the unholy alliance for a reason, and its only goal is to destroy Western civilisation and pave the way for Sharia and communism.

Alexandra Marshall: Social media is awash with communist propaganda today. Yesterday — you watched the live videos of France. You saw, with your own eyes, the truth. Today, these propagandists are telling you none of that happened — or if it did happen — it was just ‘students’ or ‘right-wing conspiracy’ or ‘the price of oil’. You are being told to ignore what you saw and believe their lies.

Amy Mek: This is conquest by demography. The numbers that forced her hand (estimates from immigration origins, name data, local surveys, and school figures — many on the ground say the real figures are higher):

Marseille: 30–40% Muslim

Roubaix: 35–40%

Seine-Saint-Denis: 30–40%+ (multiple communes already majority)

Montpellier / Avignon: 25–35%

Mulhouse: ~25–26%

Lyon, Nice, Grenoble, Lille metro: 20%+

Toulouse, Strasbourg, Bordeaux: climbing fast

These are not scattered communities. They are concentrated, high-turnout voting blocs that vote as a unit and extract concessions. When a bloc gets large enough, even the hardest politicians calculate and fold.

Bill Mitchell: In shocking news, unlimited third-world immigration is not going well for Europe. If only someone had warned them.

Brother Rachid: France Is Reaping What Its Leaders Sowed. Import people who hate your culture and your country, parasites who come only for the freebies, and you get nothing but hatred and destruction. They turn every opportunity into chaos, even a soccer game becomes a battleground, let alone a protest.

Alice Smith: The mark of an abusive relationship is when the one who points out the abuse gets blamed rather than the one committing the abuse. That’s the situation now in the West. When you point out the problem, you’re called “far right” — while the perpetrators are excused as the “real victims”.

Marissa Streit: Three questions the West must answer honestly: 1. Why is there always a Palestinian flag when violence erupts across the West? 2. Why are we seeing so many of these major incidents of mob violence involving Muslims and sub-Saharan Africans? 3. Why is legacy media gaslighting the public about what is really happening? Anyone who refuses to answer these questions honestly is allowing the West to be destroyed. What is happening in France is a warning: Politicians have allowed their countries to be invaded in return for votes and short term, economic gaps. Mass immigration from cultures with fundamentally different values, without assimilation, creates cultural conflict. This is not about every Muslim or African. It is about having the courage to acknowledge patterns, defend Western laws and values, and demand that the political class focuses not only on short-term election cycles, but on the long-term stability and existence of a country.

Donald Trump: France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late.

JD Vance: 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. They were told it would lead to this and they didn’t listen. 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.

Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Europeans, seeing what is going on in France, I have just one question: Do you get it now? This isn’t going to get better on its own. Sign the Save Europe Act.

Voices of Liberty: Roger Scruton recalls the exact moment he became a conservative during the 1968 Paris riots: “When I looked down the street and saw all these rowdy students throwing stones at policemen, I just said to myself, ‘Whatever they believe, I believe the opposite.’”

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Republished with thanks to CultureWatch. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.