{"id":369008,"date":"2018-07-12T01:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-in-flames-but-world-cup-team-doing-great\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T01:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T00:18:58","slug":"france-in-flames-but-world-cup-team-doing-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/france-in-flames-but-world-cup-team-doing-great\/","title":{"rendered":"France in Flames, but World Cup Team Doing Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, 9 July 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Diversity is strength and immigration a blessing for the French Republic. Just look at the World Cup results. France\u2019s heavily non-white team has been championed by\u00a0Ed Aarons in the<em>\u00a0Guardian,\u00a0<\/em>Afshin Molavi in the<em>\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Antoinette Muller at the<em>\u00a0Daily Maverick<\/em>\u00a0as a\u00a0multi-racial success. They\u2019re hardly alone\u2014the\u00a0<em>UK Independent<\/em>\u00a0called the polyglot Belgium\/France matchup nothing less than a \u201ccelebration of immigration.\u201d \u201cNativists\u201d beware: If it weren\u2019t for immigrant soccer players, neither France nor Belgium would have a chance in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This happy talk is in sad contrast with what\u2019s happening back in the Republic. Last week, a French police officer in the western city of Nantes fatally shot one <a href=\"news\/nonwhites-attack-nantes-france-schools-libraries-town-hall-clinics-and-over-500-vehicles-torched\" target=\"_blank\">Aboubakar Fofana<\/a> after a traffic stop. Initially, the officer said he fired to save the lives of others. However, under interrogation, he\u00a0admitted\u00a0his gun went off accidentally as he struggled with Fofana. The officer has been charged with manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>There were four days of riots. Even the<em>\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/em>called\u00a0it a \u201cfamiliar replay of grim media images . . . in France, where law enforcement tactics in immigrant neighborhoods are a regular source of friction.\u201d According to the\u00a0<em>Times,\u00a0<\/em>the late Monsieur Aboubakar \u201chad at least eight previous encounters with the police and . . . had an outstanding arrest warrant on a robbery charge.\u201d Even if the officer made a mistake,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/france-in-flames-but-world-cup-team-doing-great\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, 9 July 2018 Diversity is strength and immigration a blessing for the French Republic. Just look at the World Cup results. France\u2019s heavily non-white team has been championed by\u00a0Ed Aarons in the\u00a0Guardian,\u00a0Afshin Molavi in the\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0and\u00a0Antoinette Muller at the\u00a0Daily Maverick\u00a0as a\u00a0multi-racial success. They\u2019re hardly alone\u2014the\u00a0UK Independent\u00a0called the polyglot Belgium\/France matchup nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}