Watching the riots throughout France (the BBC laughably called them “mostly peaceful” while showing cities in flames, and U.S. media disagreed on whether they are the fault of the right or the left) made me think of the classic 1966 film “Is Paris Burning?”

The plot was inspired by Adolf Hitler’s 1944 order for German troops to destroy the city should Allied forces appear ready to capture it. Fortunately, the general tasked with fulfilling the order refused to do it, saving the City of Light.

Unfortunately, the riots may be a precursor to partially fulfilling Hitler’s wishes.

How could these riots happen? They were predictable, but too many don’t want to face facts or take seriously what the destroyers say they wish to achieve. In a Substack post, Rod Dreher writes of the French riots: “The intifada there – by Muslims, African and Middle Eastern migrants and their children, and radical French leftists – cannot be understood apart from the long civil war between........

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