Hurt pride shows as France sees world report riots

Netscape News ^ | November 8, 2005 | Reuters

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PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A barrage of critical world media reporting on the violence in its rundown suburbs is rubbing nerves raw in France, which is more used to hearing praise for its food, its countryside and its opposition to the Iraq war.

In tones ranging from outrage to rueful agreement, French media are now reporting daily on the harsh terms that foreign television stations and newspapers choose to describe the unrest among France's angry youths of Arab and African origin.

France laughed off "freedom fries" -- as French fries were renamed in Washington -- and other anti-French sentiment in the United States at the start of the Iraq war in 2003, but its reaction to the riot reporting carries a between-the-lines admission of hurt pride.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Let's all join in a gentle laugh.

We're laughing WITH the French, not AT them.


Of course.

[DeusExMachina05]

I cry for them...hahahahahhehehaha oh my hehehahaha

[Mulch]

..angry youths of Arab and African origin

Getting better Reuters but you're still not there yet.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

France

[Abathar]

BBWWahahahahahahahaha!
So France hangs its collective head in shame over its nations response to these thugs...If only there was a certain German word to express what I am feeling...

[smith288]

The whole saga is just wicked irony

[mlc9852]

It is, isn't it? I know I should feel bad for France, but I just can't.

[Bon mots]

  Zut Alors!

My Renault!

"I don't think I like Intifadas or Jihads very much."

[italianquaker]

nyslimes praised by the frogs that says it all

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I was in Madrid all last week and it was three days before CNN International (the only English-speaking channel in the hotel) even covered the events in Paris. If it wasn't for FR, I would have not known. Three days of non-reporting until the 'egalitarians' could get the correct spin on the events.

Now it's the media's fault.

[YouPosting2Me]

They probably will want their statue back...

[Bon mots]

[GOPJ]

In tones ranging from outrage to rueful agreement, French media are now reporting daily on the harsh terms that foreign television stations and newspapers choose to describe the unrest among France's angry youths of Arab and African origin.

Is there someone who can translate Freeper comments into French? They haven't begun to hear what the people really think of them...

[pabianice]

Too freakin' bad!

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Cemetery desecration in France

Twenty gravestones in the Jewish section of a cemetery in eastern France were desecrated.

Police were alerted Monday night that swastikas had been scrawled in red marker on the headstones. An investigation by local authorities is underway. It’s unclear if the desecration is linked to violence spreading across France.

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These IslamoNazis need to be stamped flat!

[YouPosting2Me]

"Hurt Pride"???

ha ha..

he, he, he...

Ohhh, stooooooooooopppppp!

ROTF....LMAO... quit..

ahhhhhhhh... ha ha, hee, heeeeeee Ohhhhhhhh SSSSTTTTOOOOOOPPPP!!! (breath).

[nodumbblonde]

rofl!!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Le Frogs have self righteously & sneeringly castigated the US, they loved Katrina NO debacle from a natural disaster. Well the Frogs brought this onto themselves, and frankly, I am enjoying every minute of it.

Love the Frog screams as salt is rubbed into the self deserved open wounds.

Frigg le Frogs.

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[edcoil]

Y a-t-il quelqu'un qui peut traduire des commentaires de Freeper en Français ? Ils n'ont pas commencé à entendre ce que le peuple pense vraiment à eux...