A car burns during clashes between French youth and riot police in Paris suburb of Aulnay sur Bois, early November 3, 2005, in a seventh night of rioting.
Posted on 11/03/2005 2:31:19 PM PST by Eurotwit
PARIS, Nov 3 (AFP) - One of France's most prominent Muslim leaders Thursday urged the state to show "respect" for his community, after a seventh night of battles between angry youths and police in high-immigration suburbs of Paris.
Speaking to faithful in the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion, said Muslim immigrants deserved better than their current lot.
"Our immigrant brothers in Paris and in France must be given the conditions to live with dignity as human beings," not in "disgraceful squats", Boubakeur said, referring to the low-income suburbs where the trouble has broken out.
"This is our hope, this is our wish and is an
address to the French authorities, to (president Jacques) Chirac who is a friend to Muslims, a friend to Islam," he said.
"The community deserves respect because it is respectful, young people need to find the way back to calm, our mosques need to be respected," Boubakeur said.
The firing of a police teargas canister at a packed mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, epicentre of the violence that has affected more than a dozen Paris suburbs since last Thursday, added to the community anger at the weekend.
France is home to Europe's largest Muslim community, estimated at around five million people.
Why? Is respect not earned?
LOL! The chutzpah of these guys.
It's really late to start squalling about "respect" now. Why in the world should any nation respect a group of murderous outlaws who behead people they disagree with?
Convince me there's not more to this that just teenagers causing trouble. I think the media is hiding some stuff.
Hell will freeze over otherwise.
"Our immigrant brothers in Paris and in France must be given the conditions to live with dignity as human beings..."
Notice the phrasing here...GIVEN THE CONDITIONS...
What rubbish. Take note all, this is where socialism gets you...best explained in "The Road to Serfdom".
Give him a ham sandwich and some beer
A car burns during clashes between French youth and riot police in Paris suburb of Aulnay sur Bois, early November 3, 2005, in a seventh night of rioting.
When have Muslims shown the slightest respect for anyone but themselves? They burn, maim, butcher, even crucify non muslims.
The destroy non muslim property and maintain the fiction of victimhood.
Pathetic psychopaths deserve no respect.
The sick thing is,,,,from the french,,,,they'll probably get it!
Funny how the folks who demand it the most...deserve it the least.
I wonder when Muslim riots will happen here in American cities?
If the infidels would just give up and give in, all will be well. For now.
And it won't mean a damn thing.
I thought the same thing.
Al Qaeda is behind this. It's part of the strategy to bring the West to its knees.
when they do lets take it to them ....
"Our immigrant brothers in Paris and in France must be given the conditions to live with dignity as human beings," not in "disgraceful squats","
Dang, I'm movin to France, declarin myself muslim and demand I be given a Chateau..(sarc/off)
Give them bullets! One at a time, very rapidly!
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