[bnelson44]

We are all witness to a historic event, the beginning of the Islamic Jihad in France and the Netherlands, soon to be spread to the rest of Western Europe.

I don't know if this is true.

[combat_boots]

One in eight French families knows personally of the Algerian war of the 1960/60. Disgusted as I am with the French, I always wanted to see the Louvre and lavender fields, and a few of the famous landmarks while I could.

I thought I'd have a few more years to do it.

I don't think so now.

[Ruth C]

I agree, I don't believe it is an Islamic jihad. I believe it is something we will face if we continue as we have been for decades constantly passing a 'one time law' to legalize whole groups of illegals who have NOT assimilated and never came here because they believed in the US culture, political vision, philosophy. They came for economic reasons only.

Their loyalty and patriotism remains with their country of birth, their culture, their language, their belief systems.

[Madam Theophilus]

I have the same question. France hasn't been Christian since the French Revolution. The suburbs around Paris are I assume like the suburbs around Amsterdam and other European cities - monuments of Bauhaus architecture. Highrise apartment buildings that are the grandparents of our American innercity projects. IMHO, what seems to me to be burning is the idea of the European socialist state.

[Popman]

We are all witness to a historic event, the beginning of the Islamic Jihad in France and the Netherlands, soon to be spread to the rest of Western Europe.

Read carefully thought the "parisriots" keyword links and I don't think that statement is that far off.

Do not listen to the MSM, they are completely and totally clueless. Read the quotes from the Muslims themselves from the articles

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They hate the West. Why are they here ?

[Popman]

Its result has been stated with haughty arrogance by Tariq Ramadan, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and a grandson of Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. Ramadan proposes through his teachings and writings that Muslims in the West should conduct themselves not as hyphenated citizens seeking to live by “common values” but as though they were already living in a Muslim-majority society and were exempt on that account from having to make concessions to the faith of others. Muslims in non-Muslim countries should feel themselves entitled to live on their own terms—while, under the terms of Western liberal tolerance, society as a whole should feel obliged to respect that choice.