Marseille Sways to a Maghreb Rhythm Christophe Margot for The New York TimesOver 120,000 immigrants from North Africa, like this man near the Arc de Triomphe de la Place d’Aix, can make Marseille feel like a Sahara on the sea.
AS a warm Saturday night hung over the Mediterranean, the Algerian-French band Yazmen shuffled under the spotlights with its instruments — hand drum, flute, electric bass and a boxy, long-necked stringed instrument called a guembri — while a crowd filed into the hot confines of the windowless Tankono club.
In Marseille, North Africa Seems Right Next DoorCouples arrived with children while bespectacled record-store geeks and a bald guy in a dashiki made toasts with Kronenbourg beers. Close to the stage, a dozen or so French bohemian types in their 30s pressed together in their best thrift-store finery.
“We’re going to start with some traditional gnawa, but a bit more modern,” the lead singer, Nabil Acef, said in French. “Are you familiar with gnawa?”
Anywhere else, the question would very likely be met with pin-drop silence. But not in Marseille.
“O-o-o-o-u-u-u-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i!” came the explosive reply, as the musicians, all smiles, began a rollicking, jazz-fusion take on gnawa, a centuries-old music heard throughout North and West Africa.
Because of Marseille’s geographical proximity to North Africa and France’s colonial history there, which ended only in the 1960s, Marseille may be more deeply linked to Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria than any non-African city. Some 120,000 to 150,000 people from those three countries — known collectively as the Maghreb — live in Marseille, a bustling and slightly raffish port city of around 800,000.
THIS AIN'T GOOD FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS NORTH AFRICA WAS BETTER OFF WHEN IT WAS CHRISTIAN BEFORE BEING CONQUERED BY MOHAMED.
- THE NYTIMES - AND OTHER POSTMODERN LEFTISTS/AKA MULTI-CULTURALISTS FEEL OTHERWISE.
- THE NYTIMES THINKS IT'S JUST FAH-BYU-LUSS THAT EVERYONE GETS ALONG IN MARSEILLES.
- I DO TOO - BUT I THINK IT'S MORE INTERESTING THAT THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID TO BE TRUE OF MUSLIM NATIONS.
- AND I KNOW THAT AS SOON AS MUSLIM BECOME A MAJORITY IN MARSEILLES - AND THE REST OF FRANCE (AND THEN EUROPE) MULTI-CULTURALISM WILL BE MURDERED - AS IT WAS BY MOHAMED OH SO MANY CENTURIES AGO IN NORTH AFRICA..
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Marseilles is home to some of the most evil unreported news...look up the word razzia, maybe you will find videos of the razzias on the busses and trains in Nice and Marseilles. A lovely Muslim practice the French shudder to think about it. Yet they pretend all is well.
the immigrant perspective"
video, Crossroads Europe - Marseilles - 02 Jul 07 - Part 2
Quoting immigrant, Nouredine Hagoug: "Well, I was born here, I studied (started?) here, I'm working here, I uh, you'll see what does it mean, integration for me. Maybe it meant something to my father, but not to me."
The dialogue continues with Nassera BenMarnia, Director Union of Muslum families: "France has a hard time perceiving us as citizens in this country. We are always thought of as coming from elsewhere".
Rafik BelhadJ Amara tells me the young muslum today has a bad image of himself because we speak of the Judeo Christian culture and not of the Judeo
Muslum Christian culture. As if Islam never contributed anything. As if we never even laid a stone. Nothing."
"When you take a bite of a croissant, the most famous of French pastries, you're actually celebrating a Muslum defeat. In the shape of a crescent, the symbol of Islam, the croissant was first baked to literally eat into the muslums."
Continues with da'wa of cultural relativism, perceived victimization and thickly embellished taqqiya.
France's culture hasn't been Judeo Christian for centuries. It has been often violently secular and leftwing. It can even be described as nihilistic, and this is what we see in the reaction of the French to the Islamification of their country. There is no looking toward the spiritual causes or cures for their impending demise, only root causes.
JauJau,
I can't find any videos on Razzia.
Can you tell me what it means?
The day NYT writes something against Islamization I would be very quite surprised...
Pastorius,
The French people ought to be up in arms. They would, if they knew what was coming.
Europe is particularly stupid to let this shit happen, considering they fought with Muslims for hundreds of years. It's called The Dark Ages for a reason.
The process of Islamification in France is nearly as old as Islam.
Epic poetry in Old French, "chanson de geste" titled, “Auberi le Bourgoing”
composed between the late 11th century and the early 14th century, celebrate the historical and legendary exploits of Charlemagne (late 8th century) and other Frankish nobles in holy wars against the Saracens.
Portions of the epic poem “Auberi le Bourgoing” provide the backdrop to the above video which is actually titled "The Ten Commandments of the Code of Chivalry" on YouTube - tells the following story :
In obedience to the voice of duty,King Orri, in the “Auberi le Bourgoing,” died as Regulus died, a thousand times more gloriously than the hero of antiquity, exclaiming in his terrible agony, “God forbid that I should betray my king and my God!” It was in obedience to the voice of duty solely, that in another of our poems (one little known) the aged Ameri of Narbonne, who had lived a hundred years, spotless and fearless, stood boldly up before the Moslem and refused to acknowledge Mahomet. They beat the aged man with briars and rods, they cut into his living flesh, they prepared the wood pile to burn him, and the Narbonnais could hear the crackling of the flames which were so soon to devour him. Nothing daunted him; and perceiving on the ramparts his wife, Ermengart, who was a weeping spectator of this horrible punishment, he cried to her: “Let me die; but for the love of God, the son of Saint Mary, do not surrender the town.”
Thanks for that, Anonymous.
I am currently reading a book on Queen Isabella.
The history of Europe is replete with examples of the horrors of Islam.
What is it with Europeans, do they not know their own history?
Pastorius,
Most Europeans probably only know what they learned from their politically correct text books and their mainstream, sometimes state run media. Many European countries are by far, much worse when it comes to political correctness than we are. Remember Geert Wilders being prosecuted for hate speech when he made Fitna?
Yep.
But, aren't Euros always talking about how Americans are ignorant?
Well, Le Figaro reports today about "The Bible Belt: the land of fundamentalism made in USA".
À Wichita, dans le Kansas, nous atteignons la «Bible Belt», cette ceinture d'États américains où l'on trouve une forte proportion de chrétiens fondamentalistes. C'est là qu'en mai dernier, un médecin qui pratiquait des avortements tardifs a été assassiné, dans l'église où il priait.
Translation:
In Wichita, in Kansas, we are in the "Bible Belt", expression that refers to those American States in which we find a high percentage of fundamentalist Christians. It was there that a doctor who practised abortions to woman with late pregnancies was killed, in the church where he was praying
You can imagine the rest of the article (Bush and God's will, US national identity...).
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