Entire fantastic article by BRENDA POWER below (the rest in comments) Liberal Woman Who’s The Emblem of French Plight AN ELEGANT Parisian woman in a chestnut wool coat, sunglasses perched on the black headband in her long blonde hair, stands at the door of a ruined grocery shop as masked looters descend upon it. She is every privileged, middle-class, thirtysomething Western woman you’ve ever seen at a pro-Palestinian, pro-immigrant march, wearing a keffiyeh and waving a 'Refugees Welcome' placard, chanting, 'From the river to the sea'. Madame Everywoman has so despaired of the bigotry of the far right, and denounced the vile racism of the fascist commentators warning that Europe is being 'invaded' by Islamists, seeking to overrun and replace the continent’s indigenous population. She has applauded the sight of blue-eyed policing on city streets across France, the UK, Italy, Germany as heart-twinging evidence of 'multiculturalism'. She’s supported the introduction of more halal outlets, even though the Islamic slaughter method is cruel and bloody, and welcomed the neutralisation of backward old Christian observances like Christmas and Easter into 'winter' and 'spring' festivals. She’s supported bans on dogs being walked in certain parts of Paris because Islam considers them unclean, thinks burkas are an expression of female will, and insists that immigrants from non-Christian cultures enrich, energise and enlighten our home-grown Western societies. Unless they’re Jews, obviously. And until that is, they active masked and such-handed to 'enlighten' the shelves of her friends' grocery store of all their goods — taking alcohol test, in many cases, leaving only the 'haram' pork products strewn on the floor — and enriching only themselves. The footage of Madame Everywoman coming face-to-spitting, seething face with the culture she has championed has circled the globe over the last few days, as the French riots spread countryside and beyond. 'This is not the cause,' she pleads with the masked looters, nearly all young men, as they push past her to ransack the store. She has supported them, she wails, she is on their side, she shares their ideology, they have the same objectives of liberty, equality, peace, prosperity — burning and looting shops in dire suburbs was never in the script. They push her aside, tell her clear off if she doesn’t want to get hurt, she turns to the camera, the picture of anguished realisation dawning just a little too late, a human metaphor for modern, liberal, progressive Europe’s tardy awakening to the medieval fate it has unwittingly sealed — there is no shared ideology, there is no political conviction, there’s no noble aspiration or mutual goal, just a brutal, marauding horde with no objective but to pillage and destroy, and nothing in their hearts but well-deserved contempt for useful Western idiots like Madame Everywoman and her keffiyeh-toting ilk. If asunder empathy has a face, it’s that elegant Parisian woman in her chic headband, her expensive coat and her utter bewilderment. These protests are far more than shout poor educational facilities. Pictures of thugs fleeing Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton stores with armfuls of designer clothing appear online, satirically captioned, 'French students desperately seeking new school uniforms.' Now they are just a sinister flex by a menacing cohort which has steadily infiltrated western Europe over the past decade, exploiting colonial guilt, the positive, preening vanity that passes for political debate on social media, and the witless purity spiralling of liberal competitive wokeness. Five years ago, it would have been considered a hate crime to suggest that while most migrants were genuinely well-intentioned people simply hoping for a better life, there was a significant number from incompatible cultures driven by envy and hatred of Western liberties, whose aim was to despoil, plunder and subjugate the liberal societies ...cont in comments