Fox’s Charlie Hurt interviews Dr. Quanta Ahmad on France’s violence roots
Transcript: This is a very insightful interview on the true underlying situation in France.
It’s great to see you this morning. Thank you for helping us understand some of this. First of all, what is going on?”
“So these protests started as genuine school protests by schoolchildren. Schools are underfunded. Seventy-two percent of the school budget is spent towards pensions and salaries. Teachers are missing, and so there was a real grievance. But that has rapidly been hijacked by far-left groups.”
“Those are mostly calmer protests. Those have been peaceful.”
“Many of them have been peaceful. But there’s been an agitation, a deliberate, violent hijacking of these protests by particularly far-left French political groups, political parties.”
“And what are these parties after? What do they drive?”
“Well, the French prime minister has named the party, the LFI, which is a far-left, anti-colonial, calls itself an anti-fascist, pro-revolutionary party, that is behind a lot of the organization. And we know that foreign actors like China, Russia, and Iran are financing the agitprop that those terrible clips are propagated on social media.”
“And when you see a lot of Palestinian flags there, and of course you’ve heard what Vice President J.D. Vance [has been] pointing out, that where you have this mass migration, lack of assimilation, and then there’s some overlap, I guess, between a lot of those people who have come to the country and living in poorer neighborhoods, you wind up with a powder keg that winds up like this, where you have bad actors from other places trying to destroy France.”
“So the commonality between the far-left extremist politics and disenfranchised migrants and Islamists—I’m a very assimilated Muslim migrant to the United States—is grievance. This is the capitalization and exploitation of grievance into victimhood, and that’s a very dangerous mix.
“So we see the pro-Islamist—this LFI party called October 7th ‘armed Palestinian resistance.’ They legitimize the actions of the Hamas terror group. They exploit, and the Islamists ride on, and that catches also disenfranchised youth.
“You asked off air, some of these schools are in Paris’s banlieues, the very disenfranchised urban areas. The schools are deprived. There’s tension in the schools. There’s tension with the police. That’s a great ingredient for Islamist movements, but they are not behind the whole capture of these protests. They are beneficiaries.”
“And who are these? What is the motive of the people who are, I guess, funding some of this stuff and encouraging it?”
“Great question. I would say it’s the same forces that have captured much of our campus, and I wonder even going back to some of the enormous protests we saw during the pandemic.
“The goal of these foreign actors—Fox Digital, Asra Nomani showed all of the groups that are involved in these protests—is to dismantle our societies. So this is an anarchic effort.
“The leader of the French revolutionary party wants to replace the French elite institutions with the lower classes and deliver his vision of a new diabolical France.
“At this moment, France’s newspapers are seeing that the majority of French people want to vote a right-leaning government in, half of them for Le Pen and half for a centrist. The problem is both the right parties and the left parties don’t have a financial plan for France. France is hugely in debt.”
“That’s going to solve the original problem.”
“Yeah, France has 120 percent of the GDP public debt. It can’t solve this with money. It has no economic growth, and its economy has been hollowed out by all of this financing of welfare and profligate spending.
“There is one hope. There’s a new French politician, Sarah Knafo. She’s considered possibly with the ideas of Javier Milei in Argentina. She wants to take a chainsaw to spending, rebuild the cultural identity of France, just like President Trump has aimed to do with the United States, and create some financial solutions for the country.”
“Well, I know you’ll come back as all of that develops and break it down for us in the future. Charlie, a pleasure.”
Radical left wing spending and concessions never work. France is gone along with most of Europe. Sign of the times, time to get our house in order. If the democratic socialist ie Democratic Party, wins next month, we could be looking at this as America’s future. Yes it’s that important to vote against the democrats! Maranatha! Rh
