I just hope that someone in France with more guts and brains than Chiraq and de Villepin is looking at this map and waking up. So far, the press is trying to portray these rioters as disenfranchised kids from the high rise public housing around Paris. I've been to France and there is no high rise public housing in all these cities, but there are mosques in many of them.
When we landed at Charles DeGalle airport there were about 50 guys in white robes bowing to the east on a nearby knoll. It wasn't the FIRST thing I expected to see on my first visit to Paris. That was eight years ago.
I was in Rennes about 5 years ago, and it was just a regular small French city, IIRC. I remain in shock...