What 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.
For the seventh straight night, the riots continue, with each night getting worse than the previous and spreading to at least 20 towns.
(AP) A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.
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.
Since then riots have swelled into a broader challenge against the French state and its security forces. The violence has exposed deep discontent in neighborhoods where African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children are trapped by poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, crime, poor education and housing.
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.
This is cowardice. The media is afraid to feature this fact. In the second paragraph of one story, we get †many of them Muslims of North African origin.†This story in The Scotsman leaves the reader in doubt as to who the rioters are. SBS refers to “youths,†without any description. And so on.
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:
The areas hardest hit by the riots, according to Reuters, are “home to North African and black African minorities that feel excluded from French society.†AP shed some light on this feeling of exclusion: “the violence also cast doubt on the success of France’s model of seeking to integrate its large immigrant community — its Muslim population, at an estimated 5 million, is Western Europe’s largest — by playing down differences between ethnic groups. Rather than feeling embraced as full and equal citizens, immigrants and their French-born children complain of police harassment and of being refused jobs, housing and opportunities.â€
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€
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