EXCLUSIVE TO PJM By Paul Belien from Brussels JournalPosted on 10/26/2006 7:26:39 AM PDT by areafiftyone
EXCLUSIVE TO PJM By Paul Belien from Brussels Journal
As America prepares for Halloween, France is girding for a wave of attacks from Muslim youths—a reprise of the deadly French riots of last year.
A leaked French intelligence report warns that during the first week of November, a school holiday (Nov. 1 or All Saint’s Day), Muslim riots could convulse the country.
On Monday, Le Figaro, the leading center-right newspaper in the country, quoted a confidential report written by the Renseignements Généraux (RG), the French equivalent of the FBI. The 17-page RG report, dated 11 October, states that the root causes of last year’s riots are still in place. The authorities are especially concerned with All Saints Day when “many urban youths are left to their own and have more time to cause unrest.”
Not that France has been a peace since last year’s riots. In the past few weeks alone, several policemen were ambushed by youths who seemed intent on killing them. In response, the French Interior Ministry asked the police to keep a low profile and not to show themselves in the Muslim suburbs in order to avoid tension.
Since appeasement alone is not a strategy. French authorities are keeping a force of some 50,000 riot police in permanent stand-by. A ministry spokesman said it is important to find “the good balance: not overreact to the situation, but at the same time, not underestimate it either.”
A local prefect (a provincial governor) added: “In case of trouble, we will have to be able to control events for a prolonged period without running out of forces.”
Last year’s intifada lasted three weeks. It petered out when the authorities asked the media to stop devoting attention to the riots.
The situation, however, never returned to normal. Unless one considers (as some French officials seem to do) the current situation as “normal.” In the first six months of this year there were 50,000 acts of urban violence by Muslims. On average 15 police officers, fire fighters or other public officials are attacked per day and 100 cars are set alight per night.
Gangs of immigrant vandals operate in a paramilitary fashion. A spokesman for the French police officers union, himself a policeman, has that France is in the midst of a “civil war.”
Interestingly, no public official said the union was exaggerating.
The RG report, cited by Le Figaro, however, says that there is no evidence that the gangs coordinate their attacks across different suburbs.
The latest serious incident was a pitched battle between rioters and policemen in Grande-Borne, a suburb of Paris, on Sunday afternoon after youths had torched a city bus. Shortly after 2 PM immigrant youths stopped the vehicle, ordered the driver and the passengers to get out and set it afire.
In fact, some blame the media have for reporting the bus attack, thereby, “adding to the tensions.” Blaming the messenger is about all France can do these days.
All of this is now considered to be a “normal” incident in contemporary France. It is the abnormal violence, perhaps coming on November 1 that has the French really worried.
Paul Belien is the editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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"In the first six months of this year there were 50,000 acts of urban violence by Muslims. On average 15 police officers, fire fighters or other public officials are attacked per day and 100 cars are set alight per night."
50,000 acts of urban violence??? 15 officers attacked PER DAY??? WHEN are the French going to wake up? Oh, that's right, we are supposed to believe that this is just a "small minority" of angry "youths." Until the French government starts calling this what it is--an INTIFADA--and starts cracking down on those who are committing these acts, things are only going to escalate until we have dead French officers or dead French citizens.
This is just the beginnning. The French people are idiots or maybe just the ones in Paris! There will be deaths pretty soon. I am constantly monitoring a French conservative blog. They are saying the French government is covering up everything that is happening and the media is in denial saying it is the wealthy that is causing this. Islam is slowing doing EXACTLY what they intended to do - TAKE OVER EUROPE!
IN THEIR DREAMS!! GRRRRRRRRR!!
How about Bastille Day celebrated with Muslims screaming Allah Akbar and real beheadings!!! That's what it will come down to if the French don't watch out!
Please keep me posted in the event that the frogs grow a spine.
Thabnks,
BR
Will you be around in the year 3010? LOL
Could I please have that link, I'd like to follow it as well.
Multiple Choice Test
1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a man from Palestine between 17 and 40 years old.
2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 52 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
13. In July of 2005, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
Thank you very much.
In general, I'm pretty libertarian. And for a long time I had a "live and let live" philosophy about Islam.
But no more. EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY the muslims have made inroads into HAVE EXPERIENCED SERIOUS CULTURAL UPHEAVALS.
EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY the muslims have made inroads into HAVE EXPERIENCED SERIOUS INCREASES IN VIOLENCE.
So I no longer perceive this as ISLAM vs. the US or ISLAM vs. Israel, it's ISLAM vs. everybody else. Period.
My favorite comment from your link:
"Too bad they aen't burning Airbus aircraft. That might save a few lives"
You are quite welcome! :-)
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