Posted on 11/07/2005 6:13:42 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
Has anyone in the United States noticed that the Paris suburbs have been racked by race riots for a week? That youths in these ghettos are opening fire on police?
You'd never know it from American media coverage. There's very little of it on TV, despite the dramatic footage of burning cars. On CNN Headline News, the French riots were given 20 seconds, wedged between an item about Scooter Libby and one about how a musicians' strike at Radio City wouldn't affect the Rockettes.
What's more astounding is that Americans, despite their frequent delight in France-bashing, have not used the mayhem to turn a bright spotlight onto the failings of French society. Here we have nine towns in France consumed in what one French union leader called a "civil war," and few American commentators are wagging their fingers over what's wrong with France.
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Well there is that huge huge story about whether Scooter is telling the truth or Russert is telling the truth about something that was not even a crime in the first place.
Dam good article.
Wagging our fingers???
Most Americans that are even aware of France's plight are laughing our @sses off!
When even Bill Clinton is braver than you, you 'gots yerself a prob-e-lem'.
Yes, I'm sure it's all been caused by racism.
The MSM does not engage in French bashing. They engage in Republican administration bashing.
The MSM people identify with the silly French. They don't know how to cover this...
here's a parody I wrote yesterday before this article was written describing Chirac and his appeal for calm from gov't offices..seems as though the nail was hit on the head..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1516724/posts
Americans have been trying to teach the french since at least Thomas Jefferson. Didn't listen then either.
There is resentment from the Muslims who want to be treated differently and Sarkozy has actually drawn fire from the Left for suggesting American-style Affirmative Action type programs. It is viewed as "un-French" to suggest the differences between the French and the Muslims.
I'm sure that if the French were to look at our melting pot that functioned quite well through the 1960s they might learn something. But ever since we adopted the Canadian model of multi-culturalism our immigrants have been increasingly congregating in their own balkinized ghettos. They may work but they are not becoming Americans.
Rather than worrying about whether the French are learning anything from us, I am much more worried about whether we are learning anything from them.
The real lesson is that Islam doesn't mix with any other culture including Western culture. Every country in the world that shares a border with a Muslim country or has a significant Muslim minority population suffers strife and violence and it is invariably caused by the Muslims.
The real lesson to be taken from this is that we had better keep the Muslims out or we will be in flames just like Paris. Oh wait a minute ... that already happened ... twice ...in 1993 and 2001.
The news coverage on this has been abysmal. Even Fox went on and on about the tornado, but barely mentioned what's going on in France, which has historical significance. The French have a civil war on their hands. I was reduced to watching BBC news to find out the latest about this. The French are going to have to send in the Army to quell this. Then, if I were in charge, I'd start sending them back to their beloved homelands regardless of where they were born. They have proven that they have no loyalty to the French nation.
How long do you think it will take this to "soak in"?
Maybe what France needs are thousands of counselors from American universities who can teach the French that diversity is their strength and explain that the North African youths are so oppressed by racism that they just can't help themselves. Then these wise people could teach the French to rectify the situation by imploding Notre Dame cathedral and building a mosque, legalizing polygamy, and paying reparations for the crusades.
don't forget writing a book entitled, "Twenty ways you too can look good in a burkha"..
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