Some readers will remember a picture of Muslims praying in the street appearing here some months ago. There are several videos of such scenes on the Net. Here's one of them.
And here's where Walt found this.
One of Walt's followers wondered if the videos were perhaps a hoax, images shot in an Arab country pasted onto a background of a Paris street scene. Wrong. These are real, shot in France where Islam is now the second-biggest religion after Catholicism.
This is a common scene not just in Paris but in cities all over France. A call to prayer goes up from a loudspeaker perched on the hood of a car, and phalanxes of muslims touch their heads to the ground and point their bums towards heaven. And the French are sick of it.
Marine Le Pen, leader of France's Front National, said recently that these scenes are proof that Muslims are taking over France and becoming an occupying force.
Reuters reports the head of research for French pollsters IFOP as saying "This has become a key political issue. Street prayers and the perceived growing influence of Islam are seen as impginging on French values of secularism [and] communal living."
Mme Le Pen's comments are evidently resonating with the French public. A TNS Sofres poll showed that support for her ideas has grown by 12 percentage points in the last year.
A presidential election is about 15 months away. Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine, expects the party to to even better than in 2002, when it knocked out the mainstream socialist candidate.
Think of le Front National as France's equivalent of the Tea Party. Except for one thing. Americans do not yet see the threat of Islamic domination. The streets of Atlanta, Bellingham and Cleveland are not yet blocked by praying Muslims. The Islamization of America is not an issue ... yet ...
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