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News from France about the continuing Muslim riots seems to have been shut off like a spigot—even though nearly 500 cars were torched again last night. Here’s one of the few reports available, at canada.com: Residents to march in Paris to call for end to unrest. (Hat tip: Gerald.) PARIS — Police tightened security in central Paris as exasperated residents of riot-torn suburbs prepared to march Friday near the Eiffel Tower to call for an end to more than two weeks of car burnings and vandalism across France. As the unrest continued to decline, civic groups timed their call to...

<p>AS THE night falls, the "troubles" start — and the pattern is always the same.</p> <p>Bands of youths in balaclavas start by setting fire to parked cars, break shop windows with baseball bats, wreck public telephones and ransack cinemas, libraries and schools. When the police arrive on the scene, the rioters attack them with stones, knives and baseball bats.</p>

When President Jacques Chirac delivered his televised speech about the Hijab (female Muslim scarf) in France, I believed there would be an immediate Jihad against France. I anticipated a wide array of Jihadist offensives against Paris. My primary analytical reason was the strategic importance of the scarf to Islamic fundamentalists worldwide.