Déjà vu...
Posted on 11/03/2005 12:23:12 AM PST by Southack
Paris riots spread throughout north-east Posted at 8:20pm on 3 Nov 2005
Violence broke out in impoverished Paris suburbs for the seventh straight night, with rioters clashing with police and leaving a trail of torched cars and vandalised buildings.
Observers are pointing to France's failure to address deep problems of poverty and immigration, including tensions with its Muslim minority.
In Aulnay-sous-Bois in the worst-affected area of Seine-Saint-Denis, a police station was briefly besieged by gangs of youths while a gymnasium and a garage were set ablaze and a commercial centre vandalised.
A total of 40 vehicles, including two buses, were torched before midnight in nine towns in the Seine-Saint-Denis area, a high-unemployment largely-immigrant region. Police made 15 arrests.
Two primary schools were also damaged in the area northeast of the French capital.
The riots started last Thursday following the accidental electrocution of two youths, aged 15 and 17, who had scaled an electrical relay station's walls to escape a police identity check in Clichy-sous-Bois.
The firing of a police tear gas grenade against a mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois during clashes on Sunday also sparked rage in the suburb's large Muslim community.
Bingo. Complicating the present problem is the fact that France didn't convey full citizenship upon Muslim immigrants, so they feel stigmatized. You have to be born there to be truly French. They say they're called names, etc., are the last hired, first fired, and the French lumped them all into ghettoes. They made a bad problem worse. A fool should have seen this coming, and yes, how soon before Syrian or Iranian Muslim terrorists move in to begin the final takeover?
2005 France: Control your Muslims!
20 years later....
Islamic Republic of France: Control your native Frenchmen!
Quite agree. Doesn't sound like much of an accident, either. Stupidity maybe...
Chirac will either fall over these riots, or will have to unleash Sarkozy even more, which will make Sarkozy even more obvious as Chirac's successor. France will alas probably never throw Chirac in prison, because he will retain his immunity by remaining in office until he dies. But France is coming around. I should say, part of France is coming around. The leftist sphincters will remain sphincters.
I guess anybody that owns property in the riot areas is SOL.
T. Dalyrimple is well worth reading. Sends more than a chill up your spine. The barbarians aren't at the city gates, they're inside and well armed.
Ironic that skin color would be such an issue with so enlightened a nation as France. But, at the heart of liberalism is a belief that people will never be more than the color of their skin, and that they should be grouped accordingly.
While this is done out of a warped sense of guilt and sensitivity, it creates its own self fulfilling prophecy, which we are now seeing unfold in all its' molotov cocktail wielding glory. When you allow flimsy group stereotypes to excuse poor individual conduct, anything becomes permissible.
Ummmm ... 7th night and they still down have this under control, huh??
Is radical Islam a religion or is it more akin to gang activity? Really, watching what goes on in other countries is a good start in terms of preventing these situations in the US. I see riotous activity as something that needs to be beaten down hard, either by the police or by responsive citizens protecting their own property.
Ooh-la-la, you cannot do zat, you must respect moi, ooh, I am overcome by your passion, ..., oui, oui, I am yours...I hope we don't fall for this cheap trick.
Yeah, Mexicans are rioting all the time and believe they'll go to heavan by killing non-Catholics. *rolls eyes*
I went over to the BBC website and read fascinating comments about the Paris/suburb riots. Most of Europe (Leftist fools), is evidently at a loss as what to do, and of course have to be looking over the shoulder at their growing Muslim population. They seem to think more appeasement and 'understanding' will solve the problem.
Others are offended at Americans' remarks that as France sowed, so she reaps. America, so we're told, haven't handled immigration problems well so we should sit down and shut up! Some Americans have expressed sadness at the violence and death of the two teenagers in the power station, but there's a lot of denial going on about what this portends in the long run. Or even the short run. The disaffected 'youth'...Muslims...have announced Friday, tomorrow, as a day of widespread riots all over France. So we shall see what happens.
The surrender monkeys electing someone like him would really be a miracle.
:)
You might try the videos from May. They are shorter and need no explanation.
I can't march in these boots!
March or die!
Kolwezi.
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