Posted on 11/08/2005 7:24:48 AM PST by areafiftyone
Two items for those who continue to insist that the riots breaking out all over Europe are unconnected to the global Islamic jihad:
Paris - 'We burned 15 cars. How many do you have?' A grim contest is under way in France as kids from disadvantaged suburbs vie with each other to see who can riot the hardest.
On Internet websites, young arsonists brag about their successes. Rioting, it seems, has become a trend sport, as youths in immigrant areas of provincial cities begin to rally to the call from Paris.
While political slogans hold no sway among these youngsters, hatred for Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is palpable. 'Now we're the ones chasing you with the Karcher (high-pressure hoses),' they say, referring to Sarkozy's pledge to clean the suburbs of 'scum'.
What began as pitched battles has transformed into a nightly game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
Two or three people set out armed with mobile phones, crowbars and incendiary material. A quick hit with the crowbar on the windscreen of a police van, a Molotov cocktail inside - and they're off back into the sprawling housing estates. >{? The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot squads, in tactics reminiscent of urban guerrilla movements.
'Each night we turn this place into Baghdad', says one masked youth in Sevran near Paris. As a political statement, there have been better - but these riots seem to be more aimed at the television cameras than the National Assembly.
'It would be better to go into Paris than break up everything here,' his friend says, appearing to consider that the victims of the rioting are predominantly their own neighbours and friends.
'Why did they set my car on fire, why mine?' asks one young man as he watches it go up in flames. He knows the perpetrators, he says. They're neighbours of his, but he refuses to name them.
'These are our kids,' says Mohammed Rezzoug, vice president of Blanc-Mesnil football club.
Every night, Rezzoug is out on the streets talking to local youths in a bid to prevent his own sports hall going up in smoke. 'They answer me: 'Momo, we'll fuck them all',' he says.
Lurking behind the lines of burning cars is the knowledge that these riots could soon become a matter of life and death.
On Wednesday night, a disabled woman in Sevran barely escaped death in a burning bus.
Youths barricaded the road with burning tyres and threw fuel into the bus. All the other passengers fled, but the 56-year-old, unable to move, was sprayed with petrol and then a burning rag was thrown inside.
The woman survived the attack with second and third-degree burns on one-fifth of her body, after the bus driver managed to pull her to safety.
© dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Video of French Rioters Screaming "Allahu Akbar"
That really puts it all into perspective, there. If I caught my neighbors setting my car on fire, getting reported to the police would be the least of their worries.
The French need to either cave in and give the young punks what ever they want (which would solve the problem for about a month) or radically up the response. I'd suggest telling the police that anyone seen flipping a car, holding a weapon or setting a fire is to be shot. The body count would be huge and the civil war would get much worse before enough of the radicals died and the message was delivered. Had they taken a much tougher stand 10 days ago this could have been prevented. Now, many must die. It is the Islamic way.
150 years ago, if you killed a man's horse or stole it, they would hang you the next day. This problem we see in France is spreading and will only get worse.
If this were were to happen in Texas they would be dead - shot by police or civilians.
These "poor youths" and their families should be rounded up and deported. If they did this in their home countries they would have their heads removed.
The media never reports the truth about Islam or these riots. The only ones who get to the heart of it are the bloggers. They get information that the MSM ignores or doesn't want to print.
Oh yea when Monday a 61 year old man was killed when he was beaten. He died from his injuries. 56 year old woman burned and a 61 year old man beaten. COWARDS! All of the rioters are COWARDS!
I heard that they are only THINKING of imposing a curfew not doing it, THINKING of it! IDIOTS!
Oh there are going to be many cowardly acts. I take it they think Allah is glorified in this?
If the number of burnt cars is any indication, the riots are loosing steam (or the worst defenders are locked up already)
http://www.trevert.net/france.php
Number of cars for Nov 7 is less than Nov 6
Probably because there aren't that many left in one area of town. LOL
The riots are spreading closer to Paris.
If it were really Baghdad each night large numbers of the Muslims youths would be turned into corpses. Be careful what you wise for Islamists. As Iraq is teaching you, the West capability of violence so out weight even your wildest fantasies. Be careful what you wish for Muslims.
This morning, NPR was full of the spin that this isn't about Islam but about poor youth who are discriminated against and are unemployed, and just want a better life. Well, maybe, but remember when Airbus rolled out its new jumbo jet a few months ago, how the media were crowing about how great France and the EU are, and how we should learn from them and be more like them? Back then, there was no talk of 40% ghetto unemployment in France, or simmering racial tensions, or widespread discrimination. No, it was all vive la France and screw the USA and screw Bush.
And the price of "caving in" is to have them begin to occupy the central cities of Europe as happened in the US when racial rioting here became violent. The difference is that our black people were still integrated into America and loyal even though economically discriminated against. We have done a lot to fix that, to date. But Muslims are not loyal to France or any other governemt. They are loyal to Islam...and Islam wants Christians and Jews dead! Do not believe this will go away. It won't.
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