Can Muslims Be Part of the “Universal Frenchness”?

A quote from the Franco-Arab scholar Chiheb Nasser, on David Orland’s blog, 14 April 2007

It remains to be seen what is the Arab-Muslim vote. It’s a complicated problem, especially in France because we have difficulty assessing so-called ethnic data due to rather intransigent republicanism. But an idea of how things stand can be had at the local level and it is today clear that, in certain at-risk districts, a portion of those referred to as immigrant-origin French people vote for the Front National. This phenomenon has begun to assume significant proportions. […]

Le Monde reported that Le Pen was stunned when he saw a report on the suburban housing projects [les cités] in which a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin, unable to continue living in her neighborhood because of banlieue thugocracy [la voyoucratie banlieusarde], to speak like Finkielkraut, voted for the Front National. In the banlieues, there has been a considerable rejection of the consensus politics characterized by the UMP and the PS. This indicates that immigrant-origin French people are no longer receptive to the siren-song of anti-racism. From this, it must be concluded that they see themselves as part of a universal Frenchness. It’s an interesting point, in my view.

universal frenchness

Chiheb Nasser: "a portion of those referred to as immigrant-origin French people vote for the Front National. This phenomenon has begun to assume significant proportions."

They are called immigrant-origin French people by the loony left, but they are just called immigrants by anyone else.
Significant proportions = 0.5 % ?
We know that immigrants will mainly vote for the socialists.

Ch-N: "a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin"

That is to say, an Arab woman who was given french citizenship by Chirac or Mitterrand.

Ch-N: "a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin, unable to continue living in her neighborhood because of banlieue thugocracy (...) voted for the Front National."
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"From this, it must be concluded that they see themselves as part of a universal Frenchness. It’s an interesting point, in my view."

From this, it must be concluded that immigrants would like to live in security. Nothing to do with defending frenchness. Besides, frenchness has been an anti-french concept since 1789.

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Kapitein Andre: "There is no "universal" Frenchness, for nationality is inherent particularistic."

The french administration has been claiming since 1789 that every country in the world is particularistic, except france, which is universal. Being Breton, Basque, or foreigner reeks of ethnicity. But being French means being human in a universal way. And also, they say that French is the universal language of liberty and intelligence. And also, since France is a proposition nation, it has no particular culture, except the cult of reason.

The french "universal" ideology dates back to the 1789 revolution. But it has merged recently with the mass immigration ideology. They think they can abolish society, replace Europeans with third-world people, and keep the state administration functional. I hope it will break down before long.

The french ideologues think the enemy is "communautarisme" (communitarianism), people's tendency to form communities to defend their ethnic identities. So, I think their opposition to the Breton and Basque languages is going to increase. They will continue to destroy European society, but they will achieve nothing against tightly knit immigrant communities. The government and the extreme left will maintain their opposition to the christian religion in the name of secularism, but they will still try to accommodate islam.

In Reply to Peter Van Der Heyden

While there is general consensus that he is of East Asian extraction, little else is known, with rumors of acquiring a student visa in Shanghai ruled false. He could be an East Asian Muslim e.g. an Uighur. Firstly, don't jump to conclusions; secondly, there is a great deal of anti-Islamic vitriol out there that the BJ ignores, e.g. the Sydney rape waves, Muslim integration problems in Canada etc.

Not a muslim

We can be pretty sure the killer of Virginia Tech wasn’t a Muslim. It would have been all over the Brussels journal right now.

In Reply to Cogito

No need to convert, merely to repatriate themselves. There is no "univeral" Frenchness, for nationality is inherent particularistic. At this point, the French government might as well deputize soccer hooligans as police officers, for these are clearly more courageous (if intoxicated and unstable) than either the French national police or gendarmerie.

proof

The final proof of that will be in that they leave Islam, convert to Christianism and marry locally.