Posted on 11/04/2005 5:36:05 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated. Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced, sophisticated, gay Paree image Monsieur Chirac likes to portray to the world, and the story, which is just starting to grip the world's attention, is full of ironies. One is tempted to suggest that Prime Minister Sharon send a note cautioning Monsieur Chirac about cycles of violence.
Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and said France is different because it "is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world."
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Unbelievable... Bravo to you and your son!
Check out #7
Check out #7
wonder how they will handle the loss of $$ from tourism.....who wants to go to paris now?
Thanks for the ping. Pretty sad...
Commentary of this sort will not be appearing in any sort of the MSM. They wouldn't want everybody to know that their favorie country has failed miserably at answering the Muslim Question.
Good for that kid. Sounds just like a Massachusetts school system to me; no surprise there, sadly.
Tell that to the disabled woman doused with gasoline and lit on fire by "youths" - severe burns over 20% of her body, after rescue by the bus driver. Or to the firefighter hit in the face with a molotov cocktail. Yes, there is violence against persons happening. Check out this blog:
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/
Actual link.
wonder how they will handle the loss of $$ from tourism.....who wants to go to paris now?
cindy sheehan and the gang...
Your hole in the ground called...it said it pines for you, please crawl back in.
They attacked the bus. The woman couldn't get out. She was burnt. It's terrible, and it's why order needs to be restored. They did not walk up to a handicapped woman, douse her in gasoline, and set her on fire.
There is a difference, and it is important.
The press account (UK) I read said they doused her body and a "youth" tossed a flaming rag on her. Did you read something else?
Witnesses said a youth poured petrol over the woman and then threw a Molotov cocktail on to the bus she was travelling on in the suburb of Sevran.
She was allegedly doused with petrol by one youth, then others threw a flaming rag on her. Rescued by the driver, she was taken to hospital with severe burns to 20 percent of her body.
Nuff said?
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