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French Muslim leader asks for 'respect'
AFP ^ | AFP

Posted on 11/03/2005 2:31:19 PM PST by Eurotwit

PARIS, Nov 3 (AFP) - One of France's most prominent Muslim leaders Thursday urged the state to show "respect" for his community, after a seventh night of battles between angry youths and police in high-immigration suburbs of Paris.

Speaking to faithful in the Paris mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion, said Muslim immigrants deserved better than their current lot.

"Our immigrant brothers in Paris and in France must be given the conditions to live with dignity as human beings," not in "disgraceful squats", Boubakeur said, referring to the low-income suburbs where the trouble has broken out.

"This is our hope, this is our wish and is an

address to the French authorities, to (president Jacques) Chirac who is a friend to Muslims, a friend to Islam," he said.

"The community deserves respect because it is respectful, young people need to find the way back to calm, our mosques need to be respected," Boubakeur said.

The firing of a police teargas canister at a packed mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, epicentre of the violence that has affected more than a dozen Paris suburbs since last Thursday, added to the community anger at the weekend.

France is home to Europe's largest Muslim community, estimated at around five million people.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eurabia; eurotrash; insurgency; moops; parisriots; religionofpeace; uprising
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To: Eurotwit

""Our immigrant brothers in Paris and in France must be given the conditions to live with dignity as human beings," not in "disgraceful squats", Boubakeur said, referring to the low-income suburbs where the trouble has broken out."

If they don't like the housing, they can move. That is not a 'Let them eat cake" statement. No one forces them to stay there.


41 posted on 11/03/2005 3:02:21 PM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: L98Fiero
I think the media is hiding some stuff.

What? The Legacy Media hiding stuff? You must be kidding!

</sarcasm*>

42 posted on 11/03/2005 3:03:13 PM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: GBA

Muslim riots will never happen in America. Detroit might riot, but it won't be about Muslim rights.


43 posted on 11/03/2005 3:03:22 PM PST by hershey
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To: Eurotwit

What is French for "No justice, no peace" and "Burn, baby, burn"? This guy is the muslim Maxine Waters.


44 posted on 11/03/2005 3:04:42 PM PST by LexBaird (tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: AngryJawa
Respect? Funny how the folks who demand it the most...deserve it the least.

Were I President, I'd tell them:

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T...Find out what it means TO ME!"

45 posted on 11/03/2005 3:05:11 PM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: Eurotwit

Shakedown time, we here in the states get this all the time, "pony up or get burned out." But our "leaders" are part of the charade because taking money from the decent and giving it to the scum is a profitable enterprise.


46 posted on 11/03/2005 3:05:30 PM PST by junta (It's Jihad stupid!)
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To: mmercier
People that are not respected will force respect through violence.

You cannot force respect. Respect is only earned, and no amount of bullying can change that. The only thing that bullying can force is the hiding of the contempt under a layer of fear.

47 posted on 11/03/2005 3:09:56 PM PST by LexBaird (tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: Eurotwit
I'll tell ya, we Mooselimbs get no respect!!

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48 posted on 11/03/2005 3:11:25 PM PST by Bird Jenkins
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To: Max7
Translation: Roll over and give us all the free stuff before we burn you to the ground. But, hey, we luv ya!

This is eerily similar to the mentality of entitlement that we saw most recently in New Orleans.

These people don't have any respect for themselves, that is the problem.

49 posted on 11/03/2005 3:12:00 PM PST by oldbrowser (A living, breathing constitution is a usurpation of the people's sovereignty.)
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To: Eurotwit

We're rioting, burning, looting, causing mayhem......therefore, you should respect us.


Ummmmmm...............o.........k...................


51 posted on 11/03/2005 3:13:31 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Eurotwit

Camp of the Saints


52 posted on 11/03/2005 3:13:35 PM PST by Crawdad (So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: mmercier

Hey, a cancer is a cancer. Islam has been an oncological growth since the illiterate caravan robber Mohammad first started spouting his gibberish. And I have no problem with violence. Without violent resistance to the armies of this degenerate "prophet" there wouldn't be a non-muslim territory anywhere in the Old World.


53 posted on 11/03/2005 3:13:59 PM PST by infidel dog (nearer my God to thee....)
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To: kittymyrib

"Why in the world should any nation respect a group of murderous outlaws who behead people they disagree with?"

Nobody in France has been beheaded in decades.
To whom are you referring?


54 posted on 11/03/2005 3:15:49 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: GBA

We have guns. That's the difference.


55 posted on 11/03/2005 3:15:54 PM PST by winner3000
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To: ArizonaPatriot

I agree and the only thing that should have been in short supply in NOLA was machine gun ammo.


56 posted on 11/03/2005 3:16:12 PM PST by junta (It's Jihad stupid!)
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To: mmercier
There is a middle ground, and here are Moslem's who do not seek the extermination do all infidels.
Willing to bet your life? This is just the beginning and I've got a feeling you're going to be one of the first casualties.
57 posted on 11/03/2005 3:16:18 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: mmercier
There is a middle ground, and here are Moslem's who do not seek the extermination do all infidels.

Then it is far past time that they rose up and expelled the ones who do seek "extermination of infidels" from their society and culture. If they tolerate the mad dogs to thrive among them, they share the blame. Don't expect others to bother to distinguish the difference, when they won't unambiguously distinguish it themselves.

58 posted on 11/03/2005 3:16:44 PM PST by LexBaird (tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: Eurotwit

59 posted on 11/03/2005 3:19:45 PM PST by Saint Reagan
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To: L98Fiero

"Convince me there's not more to this that just teenagers causing trouble. I think the media is hiding some stuff."

That's about all there is to it.
It's Detroit's "Devil's Night - 1994" in the banlieu, so to speak.
The "more to it" is that nobody's been killed. This is a French disturbance between French people, following the rules. The young beurs are mad about certain things: maltreatment by the police, unemployment, being second-class citizens in their own country. But they are NOT murderous. They're expressing rage, not jihad.

The religious leaders have been calling for calm and trying to get the kids off the street.

There is a desire to play this as a Muslim Insurrection, the Jihad Comes to Paris, the New Front in the War On Terror.

But that is not the case.
If Islamist jihad comes to Paris, it will be in the form of bombs in the Metro or mass killings. It will not be in young men causing trouble in the streets and saying that the police are too rough (they are) or that they've got no jobs and are excluded (which is true).

So there is more to it, but it doesn't even rise to the level of the LA riots. There, the respect for life disappeared. On the 8th day of riots in Seine-St. Denis, nobody's dead.


60 posted on 11/03/2005 3:21:35 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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