Shots fired at police, fire crews shot at rioting in Paris suburbs spreads.

AP ^ | 11/03/0 | Jamey Keaten

[OpusatFR]

If they don't get this under control and within the next day, they will be looking at Lebanon as a vacation. Jihadi's will be looking at this as an opportunity. All it takes it a few shoulder fired missles at Orly while this is going on and all hell breaks loose.

You know, WWI started with just a shot that destabilized the dicey balance.

[son of caesar]

and if the army comes and cracks down on these unintegrated muslims, watch for the muslims to escalate big time. france knows this very well. france could become the focal point of muslim ire, now how cool would that be? islam has this battle won, hands down. islam can call in recruits well versed in doing serious damage to france. but them again, do i really care what happens to france anyways? MAIS NON. not one mention of the rop in france attacking synagogues or jews themselves quite yet? or has the french govt agreed to round up their jews and transport them to the mosque by an agreed upon time?

[ChromeDome]

Marked for later read

[monocle]

The riots have highlighted the division between France's big cities and their poor suburbs. Frustration has been simmering in housing projects to the north and northeast of Paris, heavily populated by North African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children who struggle with [high unemployment, crime, poverty and a lack of opportunity] indolence.

[Chode]

[Flyer]

Frustration has been simmering in housing projects to the north and northeast of Paris, heavily populated by North African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children

Frustration has been simmering in housing projects to the south and southeast of Los Angeles, heavily populated by Mexican and Central American immigrants and their American-born children

[hershey]

From T. Dalyrimple's comments (which someone on FR posted a while back this am, another thread...but well worth the read if someone would post the link...sadly, I'm a computer lunkhead), about the disaffected Muslim youth population, there's no peaceful solution. And how long before Al Qaeda or OBL decide it's time to send in homicidal bombers? That's coming before long, and how easy it is for them to travel freely in the EU. No papers, just hop a train and ride.

[hershey]

The Louvre, anything that embodies French culture and pride will be targeted very soon.

[yankeedame]

...When the reaction finally comes, the extremists can then overplay the 'atrocities' of the crackdown, and use that for sympathy and recruiting....

And let's not forget the hoisting of that perpetual rallying flag of "Western-attrocities-towards-Muslims-throughout-the-Ages"

[MudSlide]

Police in the Seine-Saint-Denis region detained 23 rioters Wednesday night and have taken a total of 98 people into custody since the rioting started,

The ACLU and Turbin Durbin are going to be all over the French for this.

[Cheburashka]

Minister of Social Cohesion...
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When I saw that, I had to check to see if the story was from Scrappleface.
No, it's actually real. One can only think of the French attempted subversion of the war on terror and the saying "He who laughs last laughs best."

[Cheburashka]

They would have surrendered already, but they don't know who to hand their surrender to.
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They've already surrendered. It just wasn't accepted by the other side.

[lemura]

the muslims always jump the gun at showing their cards

It's not just the muzzies - all tyrants seem to jump the gun. Imagine if Hitler had a waited just a few more years, or the Japanese hadn't bombed Pearl when they did, or more recently, AQ had held off on 9/11 until they had somthing really nasty up their sleeve.

[Old Professer]

Shut down the power, water and block all the exit routes.

[alarm rider]

"Anyone want to hazard a guess as to when the US will, once again, need to send troops to France to fight the fight that the frogs will not?
I mean, why not? It's not like we haven't played this game twice in the last 100 years."

I will not support saving their butts again. Let them pay for their stupidity & insults. Why save Europe again? They have remained ungrateful and downright nasty to the US for a number of years. Let them burn and if they care enough about their precious culture, perhaps they will find the stones to save it from this mess. If not the French, then let the EU step up. Let's see if their butts can pay the check their mouths wrote.

[agere_contra]

Sarkozy has called the rioters "scum" and vowed to "clean out" troubled suburbs, language that some say further alienated their residents.

Sarkozy is France's last chance, unless God sends another Jeanne d'Arc

[ketelone]

These guys really take the cake. Now "scum" is enough for these buffoons to start a riot?