The Road to Serfdom: No longer up to foreigners to assimilate to the French, but up to the French to assimilate to foreigners — Muslims in French Leftist Party Trying to Impose the Wearing of the Veil Inside the City Council

Making the Left's red-green alliance with Islam ever more obvious — as well as both movements' hatred of Western values and the country in which they live — France's Causeur magazine harkens back to an influential 20th century book to ask whether the country's paramount leftist party isn't the road to serfdom. Indeed, writes Benjamin Edgard in Chalon-sur-Saône: la République se vit à tête découverte,

Three centuries [after the publication of Persian Letters by Montesquieu in 1721], it is no longer up to foreigners to assimilate to the French, but up to the French to assimilate to foreigners.

Lamia Sabrina Sari and Damien Saley, two elected officials from the far-left La France Insoumise  (LFI) party, attempted to impose the wearing of the veil within Chalon-sur-Saône's city council.

It turns out that 

The aborted attempt by LFI elected officials to impose the wearing of the veil at the Chalon-sur-Saône city council is a mad continuation of their totalizing and deadly project to create a "New France." 

This is in 180º contrast to the Left's attitude towards Christianity, which was exemplified, as far back as the year 1900, by

the mayor of Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Eugène Thomas, banning the wearing of the cassock throughout the entire city, “considering that the distinctive attire in which members of the clergy deck themselves out may serve to bolster their authority over a certain segment of society.” Five years later, during the parliamentary debates on the Law on Secularism [in 1905], a Radical-Socialist deputy, Charles Chabert, proposed an amendment to ban the wearing of the cassock in order to prevent disturbances to public order. 

The ban on wearing the veil falls within a context entirely different from that of the cassock. It no longer concerns the same religion, nor the same socio-cultural reality. Today, the issue involves entire foreign communities importing into France a different culture, different customs, different ways of life, and different ways of being.

 … "By severing the head of Louis XVI, the Revolution severed the heads of all fathers. There is no longer any family today; there are only individuals," warned Balzac in his novel Memoirs of Two Young Married Women. By atomizing society, isolating individuals, and multiplying contractual and commercial ties, the French revolutionary legacy fosters individualization and the dissolution of the social fabric. 

The Left's Poison

LFI thus takes a seat at the table of another civilization—Islam—leveraging the paradoxes of the Western individual to construct a new historical narrative, a new France. It invents a France that has never existed, much in the same way the Bolsheviks invented the proletariat in Russia to bring about their communist ideology. LFI attempts an improbable synthesis of two histories: Western history—marked by the invention of the individual—intertwined with a history of Eastern subjugation and submission. It then employs the battering ram of individualism to breach the ramparts of the French citadel and subject it to the dictates of Islam. In the name of the individual, the wearing of the veil is deemed legitimate; in the name of la liberté, Islam is granted every right within France.

 … Today, the instincts of every elected official within La France Insoumise yearns for an abstract France; a France pursuing a malignant destiny; a France engaged in self-destruction through moral self-loathing and the erosion of its own instincts—driven by a shame of being themselves, by a guilt over simply being French. La France Insoumise represents a France that views the foreigner as the salvation of the very idea of ​​France, rather than recognizing the greatness of its country within its own people. La France Insoumise does not love the French people; it does not love French reality; it is animated by a deep-seated resentment against everything that is concretely French.