Chickens Come Home to Paris Early
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:07 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesWhat started out as a group of young mohammad wanna-bes throwing a few rocks and trying to behead infidel electric cars has grown into an out-of-control crisis in the Paris suburbs.
Facing mounting criticism, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin vowed to restore order as the violence that erupted Oct. 27 spread to at least 20 towns, highlighting the frustration simmering in housing projects that are home to many North African immigrants.
Police deployed for a feared eighth night of clashes, after bands of youths lobbing stones and petrol bombs ignored President Jacques Chirac’s appeal for calm a day earlier.
Like most of the Old Media, the press is having a really hard time including the word “muslim” or “islamic” when talking about the “impoverished rioters”. In this CBS story, it takes about six paragraphs to finally get to the fact that these are primarily muslim immigrants from north Africa who’ve come to turn France into their dream Eurabian wasteland.
The Interior Ministry released a preliminary report Thursday exonerating officers of any direct role in the teenagers’ deaths. Some 1,300 officers were being deployed in Seine-Saint-Denis, a tough northeastern area that includes the town of Clichy-sous-Bois and has seen the worst violence.
The Commissar has aptly pointed out that a glance at the Google News headlines reporting the riots is empty of any reference to islam, the Old Media’s official religion.
Why?
When Catholics in Northern Ireland riot, thay are so described. Also the Protestants there. In America? Forget it; most of the country’s problems are routinely ascribed to Christian conservatives. When Hindus run amok in India, the media makes that clear. And so it goes.
But Muslims? Sorry, no critcism allowed. After all, they might fly an airplane into your buildings if you offend them.
Cowardice.
I don’t know if it’s cowardice or because the media has a beaten-wife complex when it comes to islam. The battered wife defends her abusive husband with lines like “oh, he just has a drug problem… he really loves me… he doesn’t mean to blacken both my eyes… I can’t leave him… he needs me… if I leave him, he’ll have no one to punch…”
The media, despite the fact that the islamofascists would slash their throats if they only had the opportunity and the power, defends their would-be assailants similarly with “oh, they don’t really mean it when they slaughter children… they’re not really like that… they’re good people, just like you and me…. islam is a religion of peace… Christians are the real taliban…”
I feel a little guilty for having just a twinge of concern for the French people. They brought this on themselves with their hyper-apologetic multi-cultural open-borders-created cesspool. Their government is corrupt to the core and got rich off of Saddam’s blood money, financially enabling the Hussein reign of terror and standing in our way all the while.
I always thought that France would fall apart from the inside once the muslims had the numbers to establish islamic law at the ballot box. I guess they didn’t feel like waiting that long.
I suppose I can best sum my reaction up using the words of two diseased thinkers. First, Ward “I’m an Injun, I swear!” Churchill: “The chickens are coming home to roost.” Last, and least, the Daily Kock: “Screw ‘Em!”
More at Jawa Central and Don Surber.
UPDATE:
Robert Spencer has a great column in FrontpageMag this morning about the French riots. If you want to know what’s really going on, this is an excellent place to start. A taste:
So evidently France’s failure to live up to its policy of playing down the differences between ethnic groups has bred the simmering anger that has now boiled over in the riots. However, in fact France has done just the opposite of playing down the differences between ethnic groups. In her seminal Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, historian Bat Ye’or details a series of agreements between the European Union and the Arab League that guaranteed that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be compelled in any way to adapt “to the customs of the host countries.†On the contrary, the Euro-Arab Dialogue’s Hamburg Symposium of 1983, to take just one of many examples, recommended that non-Muslim Europeans be made “more aware of the cultural background of migrants, by promoting cultural activities of the immigrant communities or ‘supplying adequate information on the culture of the migrant communities in the school curricula.’†Not only that: “Access to the mass media had to be facilitated to the migrants in order to ensure ‘regular information in their own language about their own culture as well as about the conditions of life in the host country.â€
November 4th, 2005 at 7:24 am
Riots in Paris show that the situation in Europe..
And all because jelly-spined leaders cannot bring themselves to stand up and take a hard-lined position against these Muslim monsters who’re committing the crimes. Even Denmark is now having problems with Arab/Muslim immigrants rioting and causing on…
November 4th, 2005 at 10:07 am
French Muslim Riots Continue
“Paris Muslim Riots” may not apply much longer as rioting is now taking place in at least 20 suburbs of Paris. Why all the rioting you ask? A couple Muslim teenagers were electrocuted when they entered a power substation and got fried. …
November 4th, 2005 at 10:40 am
Where is the French Coverage?
.. that after a week if riots were on between Muslims and the police in Chicago, Seattle, or even London, it would be the LEAD story and get more then 30 seconds of coverage. Where are the in-depth reports? Where is the expert analysis? Where are the q…
November 4th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
Muslim Thugs Riot In Paris For 8th Night
Muslim thugs — operating under the guise of unfairness — rioted for an 8th night, shooting at police and burning down 20 towns throughout Paris district. These are Muslim’s, that are immigrants to a country that invited them in and…
November 4th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
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November 5th, 2005 at 2:47 am
This is being covered (a bit) in the UK. But they are making clear that rioters are Muslim.
I disagree with you on one score:
“[The French] brought this on themselves with their hyper-apologetic multi-cultural open-borders-created cesspool.”
They didn’t.
1. They don’t have open borders. They often dump their unwanted migrants on the UK. Many of these people rioting are either 2nd/3rd generation from an older wave of migrants from former French posessions- some may be new-arrival kin/illegal immigrant kin to that older wave.
2. They don’t have a hyper-apologetic multi-cultural approach – that’s us in the UK! The French have a clear idea of what it is to be French and pretty high expectations that immigrants will conform to that idea. Remember the headscarf ban?
But they have failed to assimilate the ex-colonial North African, Muslim migrants. These people are segregated into squalorous suburbs with poor links to central Paris. They are completely and I believe deliberately left out of French society so fail to integrate. Of course, the immigrants have responsibility themselves to take on French values and culture (not something I would normally advocate but seems like a good idea there), which they have utterly failed to do.
November 5th, 2005 at 12:38 pm
Hey Mrs. Abroad,
Is it true that in domestic violence cases in the UK that the police have to be culturally sensitive to the fact that Muslims are cleared to beat their wives? And that in order to keep from breaking the family apart that they must consult a local imam?
November 5th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
Interesting perspective Vol. I’m surprised the UK is stressing the muslim angle, but glad to hear they haven’t completely forgotten 7/7.
And it is absolutely the immigrants’ responsibility to make efforts to assimilate, just as it should be here in the states. Of course, we’re just doing everything in English and Spanish so that we don’t offend our illegals. Otherwise, they’d stop cutting our lawns and building new houses.
Thanks for the reminder about the headscarf issue, which I had forgotten.
November 6th, 2005 at 12:29 pm
To Smantix: I think that IS happening in Australia in Victoria, but not explicitly here. (That’s what my husband told me)
I believe this to be a tacit policy in the UK, but there have been some calls to improve the policing response to “honour killings” and forced marriages. These are a serious problem that until recently has largely been ignored.
Not the UK police have a very enlightened policy toward spousal abuse anyway…
To Preston:
I wouldn’t say they were STRESSING the Muslim angle, but you know, they are reporting who’s rioting.
Sounds like it’s gotten worse since your first post as well – many more cities were in flames last night.
November 6th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
Right-O Vol Abroad. It is the Aussies with that insane rule. Good thing they have a completely different legal system than the UK. But then the Brits are taking a hard look at forced marriages.
You never know. In a few years, you may be a Vol Athome.