French Muslim rioters misunderstood, just want to be loved

Stingray: A Blog for Salty Christians ^ | November 7, 2005 | Michael McCullough

[DallasMike]

The Associated Press is reporting that rioting has spread to 300 towns in France. Note to Associated Press: 300 towns is not a riot — it's a general uprising. AP says that "Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured..."

Ace of Spades points out the Washington Post headline:  Rage of French Youth is a Fight for Recognition.

Apparently all these rioters just want attention. The poor young things feel rejected by a cold and callous society:

"We feel rejected, compared to the kids who live in better neighborhoods," said Nasim, a chunky 16-year-old with braces and acne. "Everything here is broken down and abandoned. There's no place for the little kids to go."

I had acne, too, when I was 16. But you know what? My parents were the intolerant sort who frowned on the idea of me burning down cars and schools and shooting at police officers.

"We want to change the government," he said, a black baseball cap pulled low over large, chocolate-brown eyes and an ebony face. "There's no way of getting their attention. The only way to communicate is by burning."

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"It's not a political revolution or a Muslim revolution," said Rezzoug. "There's a lot of rage. Through this burning, they're saying, 'I exist, I'm here.' "

Oh, yeah? So how many Lutherans are starting fires in Paris?

This is a good example of why the mainstream media is irrelevant — they print what they know are bald-faced lies in order to create a certain mindset in their readers.According to the mainstream media, culture doesn't matter and neither does the violent teachings of religious leaders. Shoot, that's why I get nervous driving to the area of heavily-Jewish North Dallas. I live in fear of angry gangs of balding, middle-aged Jewish doctors (whose accountants don't understand them) chasing me down and forcing me to eat potato pancakes. Oh, the humanity!

In the first Star Trek series, Captain Kirk shot anything he didn't understand unless they were beautiful alien women, in which case he had an affair with them. Sometimes the beautiful alien women turned to be bad, so he shot them anyway.

Then came the touchy-feely Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this show, the French Captain Jean-Luc Picard was as politically correct as Alan Alda. They should have named the show Therapy in Space. Picard's adviser Counselor Troi was an empath who could read the minds of aliens. And you know what? The aliens were never bad, just misunderstood. The Klingons weren't murderous thugs, they were just trying to get attention the only way they knew how — by blowing up planets with billions of inhabitants. Poor misunderstood Klingons. The only bad people on the show were those who just didn't understood that Klingons wanted to be loved.

So the French youth (be sure not to identify them as Muslim) are rioting because they don't have nice things. Has it ever occurred to one of the little geniuses that if they stop burning down crap they would have nicer things?

[DallasMike]

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[trubluolyguy]

Apparently all these rioters just want attention. The poor young things feel rejected by a cold and callous society:

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Awwww, they just need a HUG!

[strategofr]

""We want to change the government," he said, a black baseball cap pulled low over large, chocolate-brown eyes and an ebony face. "There's no way of getting their attention. The only way to communicate is by burning.""

Kid's got a point. And I can think a lot of responses I would like to make to this sort of communication. Nothing new here. People have been "talking to each other" this way since the beginning of time.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Best way to deal with them..... Smith & Wesson

[Jack of all Trades]

Awww. Somebody ought to whisper in their ear

[Capagrl]

Ping for later reading

[strategofr]

"whisper in their ear"

Is that sniper talk?

[areafiftyone]

Yup they were just using these little ole things! THEY NEED A GROUP HUG!

[Jack of all Trades]

It's a line from a Steven Segal movie. I thoought it went well with the "they just want to be loved" theme.

It's way past time for the gloves to come off in this uprising.

[red state girl]

It really isn't their fault. The French just don't care enough about their poor youths and that's why the poor youths have to burn France. All France needs to do is increase their social benefits and give them half of the country and that will fix everything.

Come on...do they really look like bad kids to you?