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LASSANA BATHILY, HERO OF SUPERMARKET ATTACK, TO BECOME FRENCH CITIZEN
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of Interior, will preside special ceremony next week.
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Following the act of bravery of Mr. Lassana Bathily, born in 1990 in Bamako (Mali) during the hostage taking of the store "Hyper Kosher" last January 9, the Minister of the Interior has requested the emergency processing of the application for naturalization that he filed on July 7, 2014.
Bernard CAZENEUVE will preside in his honor a ceremony welcoming him into the French citizenship on Tuesday, January 20 at 18.30, hrs Place Beauvau
BBM
LASSANA BATHILY, HERO OF SUPERMARKET ATTACK, TO BECOME FRENCH CITIZEN
Bernard Cazeneuve, French Minister of Interior, will preside special ceremony next week.
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Following the act of bravery of Mr. Lassana Bathily, born in 1990 in Bamako (Mali) during the hostage taking of the store "Hyper Kosher" last January 9, the Minister of the Interior has requested the emergency processing of the application for naturalization that he filed on July 7, 2014.
Bernard CAZENEUVE will preside in his honor a ceremony welcoming him into the French citizenship on Tuesday, January 20 at 18.30, hrs Place Beauvau
BBM
Excellent lengthy article, from 2002.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html
"Benevolence inflames the anger of the young men of the cités as much as repression, because their rage is inseparable from their being. Ambulance men who take away a young man injured in an incident routinely find themselves surrounded by the man’s “friends,” and jostled, jeered at, and threatened: behavior that, according to one doctor I met, continues right into the hospital, even as the friends demand that their associate should be treated at once, before others.
Of course, they also expect him to be treated as well as anyone else, and in this expectation they reveal the bad faith, or at least ambivalence, of their stance toward the society around them. They are certainly not poor, at least by the standards of all previously existing societies: they are not hungry; they have cell phones, cars, and many other appurtenances of modernity; they are dressed fashionably—according to their own fashion—with a uniform disdain of bourgeois propriety and with gold chains round their necks. They believe they have rights, and they know they will receive medical treatment, however they behave. They enjoy a far higher standard of living (or consumption) than they would in the countries of their parents’ or grandparents’ origin, even if they labored there 14 hours a day to the maximum of their capacity.
But this is not a cause of gratitude—on the contrary: they feel it as an insult or a wound, even as they take it for granted as their due. But like all human beings, they want the respect and approval of others, even—or rather especially—of the people who carelessly toss them the crumbs of Western prosperity. Emasculating dependence is never a happy state, and no dependence is more absolute, more total, than that of most of the inhabitants of the cités. They therefore come to believe in the malevolence of those who maintain them in their limbo: and they want to keep alive the belief in this perfect malevolence, for it gives meaning—the only possible meaning—to their stunted lives. It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident."
This is not a unique excuse. Many who CHOOSE not to take personal responsibility for their own well being, education, their lives, CHOOSE to put the blame on everyone else, ie, OTHERS are "maintaining them in their limbo".Excellent lengthy article, from 2002.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html
"But this is not a cause of gratitude—on the contrary: they feel it as an insult or a wound, even as they take it for granted as their due. But like all human beings, they want the respect and approval of others, even—or rather especially—of the people who carelessly toss them the crumbs of Western prosperity. Emasculating dependence is never a happy state, and no dependence is more absolute, more total, than that of most of the inhabitants of the cités. They therefore come to believe in the malevolence of those who maintain them in their limbo: and they want to keep alive the belief in this perfect malevolence, for it gives meaning—the only possible meaning—to their stunted lives. It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident."
Excellent lengthy article, from 2002.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html
"Benevolence inflames the anger of the young men of the cités as much as repression, because their rage is inseparable from their being. Ambulance men who take away a young man injured in an incident routinely find themselves surrounded by the mans friends, and jostled, jeered at, and threatened: behavior that, according to one doctor I met, continues right into the hospital, even as the friends demand that their associate should be treated at once, before others....
3 dead, one armed on the run in metro ..
Could these raids in Belgium be connected to the arrest of the arms dealer who supplied the Paris killers?