It may be mysterious and confusing, but it's not nonsense.
It sounds like something Batman would say:
One student leader explains the joke/"joke": "No young person talks like that.... Young people have reclaimed this phrase to point out that attempts to monitor and infiltrate their movements do not go unnoticed, and to assert their ability to organize in spite of them." It's a joke, another says, because "it is such a terrible impersonation of a young person." And it's racism, she adds, "because it implies that the people who are going to vandalize property are Arab.”
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Any mention of the word "bismillah" immediately and irrevocably makes me think of Queen and Freddie Mercury.
Aaaaaand....now I have my earworm for the day.
Translation: "Bismillah, we will not let you go."
"Après nous, le déluge" is a very French sentiment.
The French elite are parsing the graffiti of their conquerors while their cities burn? Yah. That's a good response. Sheesh.
They also have other slogans: "From the River to the Sea" and "Allahu Akbar," for example.
“And it's racism, she adds, ‘because it implies that the people who are going to vandalize property are Arab.’”
To be fair, many are sub Saharan African.
And the term "Bismillah" has Arabic roots.
Let him goooooooooo!
…in the AP stylebook: violent muslims not matriculated at any learning institution = students
"In the name of God, its the darkness" to me suggests the classic Marxist approach to society - we can achieve heaven if we just kill enough people to get there.
It's a good critical reader exercise to parse the mainstream US press accounts of the events in France, and notice how they elide the fact that the large majority of rioters are young men of...recent immigrant status. As if it were a random, not important point.
"because it implies that the people who are going to vandalize property are Arab.”
Stereotypes are usually regarded hurtfully because they're usually correct.
'...One student leader explains the joke...' Give them credit for being organized. the press complies, by seeking out a leader for the statement, which quite probably was prepared and part of their briefing. I would guess it nicely deflects away from one of the main groups of the rioting efforts, the unassimilated jihadis. But there are black bloc member there too, and communists. Not just students. I think this is a well coordinated assault on a peaceful society that has not only let its guard down, but has made the fatal mistake of trusting their leadership, who has been leading them to slaughter for the past 20 years or so. They might be weak enough to fall, now.
Caroline said...
“And it's racism, she adds, ‘because it implies that the people who are going to vandalize property are Arab.’”
To be fair, many are sub Saharan African.
Some are Berber, some are ANTIFA, Addicts, or just thieves with a plan
Of course the NYT would report on Bismallah, as if that matters. We see the videos about France every day; we know what matters. France is on the verge of something very very dark. No slang needed to make it hip.
"It's the darkness."
It's the end of enlightenment.
"The Age of Enlightenment was a 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual and philosophical movement. It prioritized human reason, scientific inquiry, individual liberty, religious tolerance, and skepticism of traditional authority to improve society."
“And it's racism, she adds, "because it implies that the people who are going to vandalize property are Arab.” “
Is it still a racist assumption if the rioters and looters are waving Palestinian flags? Just thought I’d ask.
…yah know the US declared these random/spontaneous/unorganized groups of students as a terrorist organization, then prosecuted, tried and imprisoned a fae of them with lengthy sentences commensurate with their crimes and the whole thing kind of stopped. I think it was mostly because the leftie Congresscritters enabling them thought twice about their status of above the law…
Diversitism.
"There are odd similarities between the end of the Pax Romana and the end of the Pax Americana which inherited Pax Britannica." - Pat Frank
The Chinese abort and enslave social justice movements led by Diverse assemblies of soldiers... students with culturally distant motives.
What loudogblog said.
Darkness comes to the City of Light.
In the name of God.
Once more we must acknowledge that Freddy Mercury (ethnically Persian) was ahead of his time in writing “Bismillah NO we will not let him go” mixing Persian with English phrases to entertain the youths.
SO?
so the arab "student" "protesters", that are destroying the country;
are "jokingly" pretending to be arabs?
huh?
"Student protests", is it?
I prefer “boogaloo snackbar” when quoting A-rabs as I try to avoid saying that their weak counterfeit god Muhammed is good at all and certainly not greater than our God.
I want to shoot my TV every time they call riots “protests.”
"I prefer “boogaloo snackbar” when quoting A-rabs"
"Bumblebee Tuna"
Bismallah, fellow youngsters. We should put on our turbans and vandalize something.
Derka derka. Baklava! Mohammed jihad.
Reminds me of the fake "Boogaloo boys".
I say, fellow rightwingers, I'm not from the FBI or the ADL. So, lets put on hawaiian shirt, sunglasses, and drive around harrassing black women.
Speaking of Batman : "Some men just want to watch the world burn"
I woould like some information about who the 1600 people arrested are. That seems sadly missing from the coverage I have seen.
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let him go) Bismillah! We will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Let me go) Will not let you go
(Never, never, never, never let me go) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia) Mamma mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!
The only problem with teh Enlightenment Project is that its basic premises have been proven wrong by historical experience.
I for one am somewhat disappointed, but it is what it is.
A bas Islam!
Isn't "BIsmillah" from that Bohemian Rhapsody song by Queen?
Never mind--I generally post before I read the previous comments.
Leora said... "I woould like some information about who the 1600 people arrested are."
They are the 'Jane Doe' of this story?
Didn't the woman crying for the looting to stop say that 'she was on their side'? Didn't that imply that they were not French?
"I woould like some information about who the 1600 people arrested are. That seems sadly missing from the coverage I have seen."
When they don't tell you, they're telling you.
Purported Exiled Iranian makes an excellent point.
One of the heros of the "movement" is a Nigerian immigrant rapper who r*ped and killed a small French girl.
Don’t you know that Russia is behind this? Germany’s chancellor just explained that. Every accusation is a confession, but I am sure that sending billions of euros to Ukraine and threatening young men with a draft is probably part of it.
I wonder how many are refugees from the war we started in Syria, and how many from Libya, and from French colonies in Africa just following the money that France drains from their homelands.
I guess that they could go back to the Shah’s Iran, that stayed in power with secret police (SAVAK) and the Mossad and CIA but it’s not so great if you weren’t a regime insider.
We attacked Iran to “help” the oppressed just like we attacked Venezuela to stop the drug trafficking. If you want the real reasons, just search on the countries with the most natural resources.
“Does that seem nonsensical to you?”
To me it seems like an apt description of the situation.
The Queen reference is obvious, but what about The Darkness? The most louche heavy metal band on earth:
https://youtu.be/tKjZuykKY1I?si=YLaPeUMydNGhFYMy
They would clean this nonsense up right quick. Or turn it into a drug-fuelled multi-kulti orgy.
CC, JSM
"Reminds me of the fake 'Boogaloo boys'."
There's nothing fake about them except most of them are not "boys" and it's very true many know how to "boogaloo".
As usual the young protesters miss the point if they even really had one. "Stuff costs too much." Wow, that's cutting edge.
Jaq: "If you want the real reasons, just search on the countries with the most natural resources."
Yes, like the USA. We've got hydrocarbons out the ass. And a lot of the high end of the periodic table. Trump and his fellow travelers want us to make things from all this bounty and sell them to each other, while the rest of the world just wallows in its non-Americanness. Anything that threatens this system, such as Latin American tyrants sending us refugees or Iranian mullahs with missiles and half a nuke, gets crushed. Everything else can just GFY. CC, JSM
@bagoh20, cut them a break, their schools are drastically underfunded to the tune of almost €23,285 per student. That's only 1000x more than their home countries! Show some compassion!
Mosby wins
Anything with sufficient foreign words is indistinguishable from nonsense.
It's gonna take more than slogans to lower costs.
Do people not realize that things never get cheaper?
Some things do in relative terms like airfare, and technology, but not because of protests. But even those things are never appreciated as cheaper when they are.
"I'm mad hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Yes, you are, and yes you will, and neither will ever end.
The answer is to get to work on getting richer, and here's a tip: destroying your town is a waste of your valuable time. If you want that, you can just vacation is Gaza.
Jaq has thoughts.
[ashrug] Macron could end the riots tomorrow by the simple expedient of announcing that the riot police would be issued hollow point ammo with the hollow filled eith bacon grease.
Also capture a couple leaders, wrap them in pig skins and treat them to haircuts courtesy of Madame Guillotine. Make sure it’s publicized. (Actually you don’t need to actually kill anyone, if you can convincingly say that you executed them.)
Oh, and make sure to force them to eat lots of Porc Cassoulet.
bagoh20 (5:14am):
Some things do in fact get cheaper, not just relatively, and not just adjusted for inflation, either. My first two computers, an Apple II and an IBM PC clone, cost very near $2,000 each, in 1980s dollars. That includes the printers, the monitors (sold separately), and the necessary software, but nothing really extra. The computer I'm about to buy, a cheap Chromebook for Zoom classes, will cost about one-eighth as much, more like one-twentieth as much, or less, after adjusting for inflation.
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