This was predicted 20 years ago by Pat Buchanan in his 2002 best seller “The Death of the West”.
Hundreds of French soldiers warned the French government in a letter that France may descend into civil war unless the spread of radical Islam is stopped.
The letter, signed by 2,000 active-duty military members, comes after hundreds of retired generals and officers signed a similar open letter last month. The latest letter was published in the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles on Sunday, according to Politico Europe.
The active-duty soldiers say that France has “surrendered” to radical Islam through lax policies and a misguided embrace of tolerance. The soldiers signed the letter anonymously to avoid repercussions from the French government.
“Many of us have suffered enemy fire,” the soldiers, who claim to be veterans of operations in Africa and Afghanistan, wrote, according to a translation of the letter by the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti. “Many have offered their lives to destroy the Islamism to which you are making concessions on our soil. We have seen the abandoned suburbs with our own eyes. We have endured attempts to exploit religious communities, for which France means nothing, is nothing but the object of sarcasm, contempt, and hatred. We marched on July 14th. We see communitarianism taking hold in the public space, in the public debate. We see the hatred of France and her story becoming the norm.”
The soldiers compared the government’s approach to radical Islam today to the government’s approach to the Nazis in 1940 during World War II when France abandoned, “without reacting, entire neighborhoods of our country to the law of the strongest.”