France glorifies the destructive. The patriotic Frenchman is one who celebrates the destruction of France that began in 1789. The French killed their monarchs and then their church. Now, through massive immigration, the French are content to balkanize France. France, above all nations, venerates the alienated intellectual--Michel Foucault, Jean Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon. "The only way to love France today," French fascist Pierre Drieu La Rochelle declared between the world wars, "is to hate it in its present form." Many French intellectuals of a more fashionable ideological pedigree concur. So do Muslim youths--well, they at least concur with the hating France part. "We hate France and France hates us," one young Muslim Frenchman proclaimed to the UK's Guardian. That no Charles Martel has put an end to the Islamic trashing of France is because France no longer lionizes such multiculturally inconvenient heroes as Charles Martel. How could France given that is has invited in massive numbers of those Martel fought to keep out?

Good call. I can still remember phrases from Fanon I was exposed to in Afro-American Studies classes. The intro to his first book Black Skin, White Masks is intellectual, existential fever: "Man is a Yes that vibrates to cosmic harmonies...." "Mankind I believe in you...."