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  • A Muslim rapper's French ghetto beat [Car-burning has a history -- Neuhof]

    11/05/2005 12:02:30 PM PST · by syriacus · 16 replies · 547+ views
    Boston.com ^ | October 2, 1005 | Sebastian Rotella,
    Surrounded by vacant lots, Gypsy shacks, and Alsatian farmland on the edge of Strasbourg, Neuhof sprawls in a maze of towers whose dreary design recalls a prison or a hospital. Neuhof homeboys had pioneered the tradition of torching cars en masse. It started in the mid-'90s when vehicles burned during riots to avenge the deaths of two young people who stole a car, led police on a chase, and crashed. Car-burning grew into a New Year's Eve event here, and spread across France, Malik said. France is full of tinderbox Neuhofs. Known as cites, some projects resemble isolated city-states with...
  • Dhimmi Watch-A Prophetic Response to the Islamic Jihad in Paris...[&coming to a town near you?]

    11/05/2005 11:22:24 AM PST · by prognostigaator · 10 replies · 932+ views
    Dhimmi Watch ^ | June 2004 | Hugh FitzGerald, Chevalier de St. George
    ......But it is changing, coming apart, quietly, slowly --let’s not look too closely, we mustn't pay too much attention -- the streets, the schools, the hospitals, the ability to speak the truth about things, about life as it is lived, la vita vissuta as they like to say in a neighboring country. Dominique de Villepin always knew there was nothing to worry about; he was born, after all, in Salé, next to Rabat, even spent a few years of his infancy there; of course he knows his Arabs, his Muslims. And surely Eric Rouleau, who for decades in Le Monde...