[Lorianne]

And I was thinking poverty and racism only occurs in the USA. Who knew?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

if you listen to the french criticize us, you'd think it was a utopia over there..

[safeasthebanks]

If I may paraphrase Mr. Limbaugh (I think)...

Riots are not caused by intangible objects like poverty and racism. Riots are caused BY RIOTERS!

[sasafras]

Sounds like the NAACP, JJ, Sharpton set up shop in France. Thats it keep blaming others for your situation, its never your fault - no self responsibility. I wonder if the French will buy into this crap like we have here - always screaming about being oppressed regardless of the truth and watch the emotional lilly white liberal zombies like Celone Dion scream "let them touch that stuff for once in their lives."

[Thrusher]

Poverty and racism caused these French riots in the same way that poverty and rascism "caused" the Night of Broken Glass.

[babydoll22]

The sad thing is that we will end up rescuing France again.

[Dallas59]

Why don't "they" talk to the immigrants who are successful? I'm pretty sure you'll get the answer.."We integrated..."

[Spruce]

Hey france, it's the muslims, you morons. Wake the hell up!

[FourPeas]

I originally read the title as "Poetry, Racism....." -- makes about as much sense.

[milford421]

I think we've all just about had enough of this crap.

[Doogle]

..as reported by Islam on line...
the fact that the rioters had no entry zones where police were not allowed...the fact that they (muslims)don't want western law and order...the fact they will not assimilate..
...the fact that France has the third largest Jewish population in the world...the fact that the french are weak and not very comfortable enforcing the law in muslim neighborhoods has nothing to do with it..????

Doogle

[fanfan]

theories on the possible root causes



There are not enough eye-drops in this universe to soothe my eyes.

[Reaganesque]

This is a no win situation for the Left. The will have to admit that either French Socialism is systemically racist or that George Bush was right about Islamic terrorism. Ah, life is good!!

[milford421]

Muslims are burning Churches and Synagogues in Paris:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3165579,00.html

[thingumbob]

Tolerence = Blindness

I wonder how long before the Louvre burns?

This sad scene sure gives a whole new meaning to "French" Fries.

[river rat]

The ONLY poverty that lead to Rioting and Crime, is the poverty of morals and character...

Both of which seem in short supply among Islamanazi Muslims.

Semper Fi

[colorado tanker]

Yep, the solution is for the French to throw billions of francs at the muslims through social programs and make M. Chirac, Vilepain and Sarkozy go to sensitivity training. That'll solve the problem. Sure it will.

[sgtbono2002]

Racism is the problem. No doubt. The Racism of the African blacks who are rioting. But its a lot more fun to blame the victims. The story says these are 3rd generation immigrants, actually French citizens doing this, I got news for him over here we have 7th and 8th generation Americans of color doing the same thing, and they still blame it on the victims too.

Stop the BS of allowing some liberal idiot with a guilt complex of passing the blame off to people who work hard to earn a decent living just to have it destroyed by some lazy racist bastard with a hard on against the world because he isnt given as much as he thinks he deserves for sitting on his Azz.

[Kenton]

Europe needed immigrants for cheap labor, said another contributor to the BBC forum, Housam of Swindon, who was offended by French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy's description of the rioters as "rabble."

[Response is to the "BBC contributor, not Lorianne":

"The indigenous Europeans always want it all: they want the immigrants to do the menial jobs they hate but they are not ready to deal with them on equal grounds as human beings.

Well, OK, he may have a point here, but these ARE the French. If the "BBC contributor" thought they REALLY wanted these north Africans because French culture wasn't rich enough already, well, that's just naive. They just wanted cheap black-market labor. (Reminds me of California liberals.)

Indigenous Europeans still live with the colonial mentality of superiority.

Well, let's be honest about something here. They ARE superior to this mob of illiterate street rabble. Yes, even the French.

Which says a lot about the quality of the immigrants...

[surely_you_jest]

"The indigenous Europeans always want it all: they want the immigrants to do the menial jobs they hate but they are not ready to deal with them on equal grounds as human beings.

Well, of course they want it all. Why else import a menial-job-doing underclass?

And why, pray tell, if one goes to the trouble of importing menials, with all that this entails, would one entertain the notion of having a social relationship with the menials one went to the trouble of importing to muck out the commodes in the first place?

Heh. (/sarc)

[Let's Roll]

I'm shocked to see that islamonline is not blaming TROP™ for the French riots.