http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rioting/ en-us Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:18:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2039658/posts 　　　　　　 　　　　World Journal, Posted: Jun 30, 2008 　　　　 　　　　BEIJING – One person was killed, 150 injured and 200 arrested when the Guizhou Province government cracked down on rioters in WengÂ’an County June 28, the World Journal reports. Over 500 high school students and local people started the insurrection because a 16-year-old girl had been raped and killed, and local government and police turned a blind eye on it. According to the World Journal, it all began when the victim refused to help one of her female classmates cheat on a test. Later, the girl was raped and killed by three... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2039658/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972843/posts The “youths” who have been rioting in Copenhagen for 9 days have written a letter explaining that they were forced to smash windows and burn cars, by the “brutal, racist, insulting” Danish police: Youths say police harassment triggered unrest in Denmark. COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A group of youths who have been torching cars and waste containers in the Danish capital said Tuesday the wave of unrest started as a protest against police harassment. In a letter published in Copenhagen newspaper Politiken, the youths accused police of “brutal, racist” behavior. It was the first time that rioting juveniles had offered any... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972843/posts#comment Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:40:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829442/posts LA COURNEUEVE, France, May 6, 2007 (AFP) - As news of rightwinger Nocolas Sarkozy's presidential victory flashed up on the television in the cafe, Gnyma Cisse buried her head in her hands in a mixture of frustration and fury. "I'm disgusted," said Cisse, 23, who had gathered to watch the election coverage in Le Metro cafe which caters to a largely immigrant and first generation French-born clientelle in the La Courneuve suburb of Paris. Cisse, of Sengalese origin, called her sister-in-law who lives here without French nationality. "Pack your bags. The planes are already on standby," she said, alluding to... The Tocqueville Connection http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829442/posts#comment Mon, 7 May 2007 05:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723215/posts A year after the Paris riots violence and despair remain endemic in the rundown suburbsFLAMES lick around a burning car on a tiny telephone screen. Omar, 17, a veteran of France’s suburban riots, replayed the sequence with pride. “It was great. We did lots of them and then we went out and torched more the next day.” Omar, whose parents immigrated from Mali, was savouring memories of the revolt that erupted 12 months ago from his home, the Chêne Pointu estate in Clichy-sous-Bois, in the eastern outskirts of Paris. “We’re ready for it again. In fact it hasn’t stopped,” he... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723215/posts#comment Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598814/posts Fox has just been covering student rioting in Paris over a new job measure. If anyone has more details, please post. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598814/posts#comment Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:21:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588576/posts "When a thinking person sees or reads something that offends them in a newspaper, they write a letter to the editor; they don't torch KFC. Clearly, there is more than a touch of irony in the violent reactions of Muslims around the world as a result of these cartoons." Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588576/posts#comment Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:42:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574788/posts by Mark Finkelstein February 8, 2006 - 20:21. Hardball's screen graphic "Global Fury" presumably referred to the rioting over the Mohammed cartoons. But it might also have been a subliminally sardonic comment about Chris Matthews' guest, Amy Goodman, host of the far-left radio show "Democracy Now." If Hillary is an angry woman, perhaps she's taken lessons from Goodman. This is one angry lady. Goodman's explanation by way of a justification of the rioting? "This is about people feeling marginalized. This has to do with the war in Iraq, this has to do with 'the Occupation' [translation: Israel's claim to a... Hardball/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1574788/posts#comment Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572641/posts by Mark Finkelstein February 6, 2006 - 07:50 Score one for Today's Matt Lauer. Interviewing New Mexico governor and former UN ambassador Bill Richardson on the subject of the Muslim rioting in response to the Mohammed cartoons, Matt asked a question that was as unexpected as it was perspicacious. Meanwhile, Richardson offered the instinctive Democratic national security response: bring on the UN! Richardson described the very grim situation in the Muslim world: "I've never seen the situation so dire with with the threats from Iran, the victory of Hamas, the escape of Badawi in Yemen. This is a very dangerous... Today Show/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572641/posts#comment Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:04:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572141/posts by Mark Finkelstein February 5, 2006 - 07:51 Hey, I'm a multi-culturalist. I'm happy to see people observing their various religious holidays, from Christmas to Chanukah to Ramadan. But somehow, my multicultural enthusiasms run out of steam when it comes to . . . condoning the sacking of foreign embassies. Not Julian Phillips. The co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend blithely condoned the current rioting and burning of foreign embassies around the world by Muslims angered by depictions of the Prophet Mohammed. His explanation-by-way-of-excuse: "different religion, different culture." In the course of the show's opening segment, Fox's Yasmina Ykelenstam reported... Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572141/posts#comment Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:58:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518614/posts SO it wasn't a political stunt. It isn't about Iraq. And the threat of Islamist terror right here is more real than many pretend. How real? If the police are right, they have saved scores of you from being blown up -- as people in Madrid and London were blown up. As NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney put it, the arrest yesterday of 17 Muslim men disrupted "the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack". He said explosive material had already been collected. Yet only last week, Prime Minister John Howard was pilloried by many for having warned of an... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518614/posts#comment Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539521/posts Australian Unrest Spreads to Other Cities Dec 13, 7:36 AM (ET) By MIKE CORDER SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The racial unrest that broke out in Sydney's beachside suburbs over the weekend has spread to two other large Australian cities, where people of Middle Eastern descent were assaulted by whites, police said Tuesday. In New South Wales, where Sydney is located, lawmakers scheduled an emergency session of the state Parliament to consider legislation cracking down on the rioters who rampaged through the city's suburbs for two straight nights, the region's premier said. Seven people were injured and 11 arrested after youths... MyWay News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539521/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:29:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539032/posts SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Violence on the streets of Sydney spilled into a second night Monday, as scores of youths drove through beachside suburbs smashing windows of stores, homes and apartments, police said. Any hopes that a race riot Sunday would be an isolated incident were shattered after dark when car loads of youths rampaged through southeastern Sydney chased by hundreds of police vehicles and a helicopter. A police spokesman said the violence first broke out in Cronulla, where Sunday's riots also started. CNN Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539032/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:42:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536789/posts Should hip hop take the rap for rioting? (Filed: 08/12/2005) French politicians have called for legal action to be taken against hip hop musicians in the wake of the French riots. Joe Muggs reports The waves of riots that swept across France this year have had an unexpected consequence for the French music industry. Urban violence: hip hop has been blamed for the Paris riots Last week, 200 politicians backed a petition by MP François Grosdidier calling for legal action against several hip hop musicians for their aggressive lyrics. Although prime minister Dominique de Villepin immediately dismissed the idea, it... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536789/posts#comment Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:14:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524932/posts The best thing about the rioting in France is that it proves once and for all that pandering to Islamists is always a bad idea. Even when you provide them with all the perks available to sluggards in a socialist society, it’s no guarantee they won’t turn right around and bite the hand that feeds them. So, just in case anybody ever asks you to name the biggest difference between a French Muslim and a French poodle, you now know the answer. France made the mistake of throwing open its doors 40 years ago to cheap Arab and African workers,... ChronWatch.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524932/posts#comment Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:03:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518209/posts The 12 Days of French rioting. (P) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174868,00.html http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/07/france.riots/ On the 12th day of rioting French President Jacques Chirac gave to me: 12. With an initial 12-day limit twelve The state-of-emergency decree — invoked under a 50-year-old law — allows curfews where needed and will become effective at midnight Tuesday, 11. Eleven pipers piping PARIS, France -- Following 11 days of violence that have rocked France. 10. Ten lords a-leaping Ten riot police were injured by youths firing fine-grain birdshot in the southern Paris suburb of Grigny, national police spokesman Patrick Hamon said. 9. Nine ladies dancing The recourse to... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518209/posts#comment Tue, 8 Nov 2005 20:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518003/posts Sacred Cow Burgers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518003/posts#comment Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:57:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1517426/posts The Associated Press is reporting that rioting has spread to 300 towns in France. Note to Associated Press: 300 towns is not a riot — it's a general uprising. AP says that "Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured..."Ace of Spades points out the Washington Post headline:  Rage of French Youth is a Fight for Recognition. Apparently all these rioters just want attention. The poor young things feel rejected by a cold and callous society: "We feel rejected, compared to the kids who live in better neighborhoods," said Nasim, a chunky... Stingray: A Blog for Salty Christians http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1517426/posts#comment Mon, 7 Nov 2005 18:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517363/posts In 1973, the French novelist Jean Raspail artfully predicted in the form of fiction the very real Palestinian-style intifada that now rages on the west bank of Europe: France. Ten years after the book's publication, Raspail described the "vision" he had, portrayed in the book, which lasted for ten feverish months: "They were there! A million poor wretches, armed only with their weakness and their numbers, overwhelmed by misery, encumbered with starving brown and black children, ready to disembark on our soil, the vanguard of the multititudes pressing hard against every part of the tired and overfed West. I literally... Frontpage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517363/posts#comment Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1517025/posts All the Youths down in Youth-ville hated Christians a lot. But the Frinch– who all lived in Paris, just north of Youth-ville– did not. Or, more precisely, they kept Christ at arm’s length Understanding completely France’s “secular strength.” Now we call them all “Youths”, ’cause the papers won’t stress What makes them so violent– you’ll just have to guess. So all the Frinch smoked and drank and lived without fear And they waited for government checks to appear And just when their faith had been completely diluted Three Moo-si-lem “Youths” got E-lectro-cuted. “Why, they’re burning our streets!” all the Frinch... Point Five blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1517025/posts#comment Mon, 7 Nov 2005 02:25:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1516317/posts This isn't anywhere near as articulate or even tempered as other things I've posted here, but I've been thinking about it all week and wanted to get it off my chest. muslim led violence in france continues. 897 cars burned just Saturday morning over night, just in that one night. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051105/ap_on_re_eu/france_rioting . A nursery was torched, and at least four other french cities have been hit with torched cars, and buildings. And yet, I DO NOT CARE!!! This is a problem of the french's own making. For years they thumbed their noses at us, bringing in immigrants by the thousands... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1516317/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2005 17:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516291/posts LE BLANC MESNIL, France -- The United States government warned Americans yesterday to stay clear of violence-wracked Parisian suburbs, as rioting gangs of Arab and African youths, mostly Muslims, torched cars, schools and buses for an eighth straight night. French authorities struggled to gain control of the worst rioting the country has seen in a decade. The unrest has spread beyond the Paris area, with five cars burned in the eastern city of Dijon and 11 set afire in the southern city of Marseille. In a particularly gruesome incident, attackers doused a 50-year-old woman on crutches with a flammable liquid... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516291/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:55:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516251/posts SEVRAN, France — By dusk Friday, the streets of Sevran were deserted. Inside high-rise apartments and stone cottages here on the outskirts of Paris, residents waited for the explosions and sirens to begin. "Last night I thought I was in Baghdad, not somewhere in France," said Nabila Chaibi, a 22-year-old sales clerk, her angular face swathed in a white head scarf. Her eyes displayed the fatigue of a sleepless night. Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516251/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2005 15:29:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515290/posts Rioting Spreads to 20 Towns Around Paris By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 3, 2:55 PM ETAULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses and hurling rocks at commuter trains, as eight days of riots over poor conditions in Paris-area housing projects spread to 20 towns. Youths ignored an appeal for calm from President Jacques Chirac, whose government worked feverishly to fend off a political crisis amid criticism that it has ignored problems in neighborhoods heavily populated by first- and second-generation North African and Muslim immigrants. Yahoo News Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515290/posts#comment Fri, 4 Nov 2005 00:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514362/posts Paris — French President Jacques Chirac, intervening after six nights of rioting in suburban Paris, called Wednesday for calm and said authorities will use a firm hand to curtail what may become a “dangerous situation.” The violence, sparked initially by the deaths of two teenagers, has exposed the despair, anger and deep-rooted criminality in the poor suburbs, where police hesitate to venture and which have proved fertile terrain for Islamic extremists. “The law must be applied firmly and in a spirit of dialogue and respect,” Mr. Chirac said at a cabinet meeting. “The absence of dialogue and an escalation of... The Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514362/posts#comment Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514015/posts Chirac Warns of Firm Response to Rioting Wednesday November 2, 2005 1:16 PM By CHRISTINE OLLIVIER Associated Press Writer PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac, intervening after six nights of rioting in suburban Paris, called Wednesday for calm and said authorities will use a firm hand to curtail what may become a ``dangerous situation.'' The violence, sparked initially by the deaths of two teenagers, has exposed the despair, anger and deep-rooted criminality in the poor suburbs, where police hesitate to venture and which have proved fertile terrain for Islamic extremists. ``The law must be applied firmly and in a... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514015/posts#comment Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:24:41 GMT