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Posted on 11/04/2005 10:58:43 PM PST by demlosers
Muslims 'scorn' Europe's ways,'conspire to take it over'
As rioting that began in a poor, mostly Muslim, neighborhood near Paris a week ago continues to spread to other suburbs and cities across France and parts of Europe, U.S. experts and at least one American lawmaker believe radical Islam is most likely responsible for the chaos.
And, they say, despite the characterization by several media outlets that those perpetuating the violence are primarily disaffected youth upset with French economic and social policies, the fact the unrest spread so quickly and is virtually limited to Muslim neighborhoods signifies a deeper, ideologically driven motive.
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., in an interview with WND, said he believes the chickens are coming home to roost in France because, for years, the country with the largest Islamic population in Europe has ignored rising Muslim tensions within its own borders. The real issue the French "are now dealing with," he said, "is [that] you cannot integrate some people into your society."
Daniel Pipes, an expert on Islam and the director of the Middle East Forum, a think tank promoting American ideals in that region, thinks the riots in France are a microcosm of the larger radical Islamic goal of gaining a solid foothold in Europe.
"The great majority of Muslims in Europe see themselves as bearers of a superior civilization and see themselves growing prodigiously," he told WND. "Through a cultural, religious and demographic confidence they feel scorn towards European ways and conspire to take it over."
Lee Kaplan, spokesman for United American Committee, an organization striving to educate more Americans to the threat of radical Islam, suggested France's quest to be "evenhanded" in its dealings with its massive Muslim immigration has backfired and now reached a point where Paris has little choice but to meet the problem head-on. In an interview with WND, he suggested that "with 5 million Muslims in France – the most in all of Europe," this week's chaos was inevitable.
Origin of unrest
According to earlier reports, the rioting – which has seen the destruction of hundreds of vehicles, public buses and buildings – began Oct. 27 after the accidental deaths of two Muslim teens. Both boys were electrocuted while hiding from police in an electrical power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Reports said police were in the area checking identification papers when the two boys ran away from them.
By week's end, riot police and firefighters were battling scores of Muslim rioters, some armed with weapons and Molotov cocktails. A police union official likened the violence to "civil war" in calling for the government to impose a strict curfew as French leaders vowed to restore order in the worst crisis of domestic violence in the country in decades.
As rioting exploded in France, Muslim-influenced unrest also began in Denmark, fueling further speculation that Europe is increasingly under siege by Islamic extremism. In the Danish rioting, Kaplan said, Muslim immigrant youths have even taunted authorities, saying, "This territory belongs to Islam; you don't belong here."
Much of the chaos, analysts said, is tied to the lack of Muslim integration into European society – whether by design or by choice. In France and Denmark alike, many cities dominated by Islamic faithful have been deemed too dangerous for police and are, effectively, "no-go zones."
"The riots typify French reaction to Islamism and spring from a European approach to the Islamic wave of migration into Europe," according to Islam analyst Robert Spencer.
Writing in FrontPage magazine, Spencer explained, "After WWII, the French built so-called 'sink estates' for the workers they encouraged to emigrate to help rebuild the nation, as did Germany."
Most of these workers came from Turkey and colonies in North Africa.
"Instead of planning for their integration into society, however, the French allowed these communities to grow and fester in economic and social isolation," Spencer said. "After two generations, the sink estates have proven to be nothing more than preplanned ghettoes, and the workers have no future except as second-class citizens of the nations they helped rebuild from devastation."
Tancredo believes many Muslims don't want to become "European." And he says the French and Danish riots are part of a larger militant Islamic movement perpetually at odds with the West.
The French "really don't want to integrate and assimilate, I think, the Muslims into French society, but I also think the Muslims are not interested in doing that themselves," he said. "This division, this rampaging nature manifesting itself in these riots and everything else, is an example of the clash of civilizations" he believes threatens Europe and the United States.
Fox news said it was youth gangs. What up with that, are they afraid of the truth.
Well,,I just keep looking toward our Southern Border.....
Despite the Right's irrational fascination with Fox, it's no better than any other outlet that aims for the lowest common denominator.
Wonder how many liberals in this country are happy that this is happening in Europe and not over here. They can thank Bush and our military for that.
Don't hold your breath waiting for their thanks!
It's only a matter of time before some one-eyed cleric from some middle-eastern hellhole decrees that Europe is ancient Islamic land under infidel/crusader occupation and declares all-out jihad.....
Then things really get interesting.
The Germans will likely be the flame on any jihad business...they won't rest a second (based on the experiences of the Jews)...in getting rid of problems. The minute the French riots cross the border...you will get a chance to watch German cops in action. And along the way...a few brown-shirt fellows will show up as well. This will be interesting to watch.
They need to go back home and scorn the West from there. I'm sure they would be welcomed in Iraq.
They can also thank the NRA and a sort of well armed citizenry.
You know they're already claiming the same thing about America, right...?
Muslims
Many pieces of evidence documented including the reference to elephants from Africa at Four Corners in Arizona. The ruins of mosques and minarets with inscriptions of Qur'anic verses have been discovered in Cuba, Mexico, Texas and Nevada. The descendants of the Muslim visitors of North America are members of the present Iroquois, Algonquin, Anasazi, Hohokam and Olmec native people. The Moslems invented the magnetic compass for ship use and the astrolabe. The greatest known Chinese (Zheng He) and African ( King Abubakuri) explorers were Muslim.
Why on earth can we not get behind this man for President? Geez, things would get done. Or at least there would be an all-out war in Congress over getting them done.
Tancredo is one of the few who can shoot straight.
Wow - perhaps the conquistadores built these mosques to remind them of their own moorish Spain perhaps?
Either that or this story is made up out of whole cloth....ya think? ;)
And a few of us are heavily armed. :0
Keep your powder dry....
Not one mention of this riot on CBS News tonight. But boy did they set up the time to broadcast the anti-Bush protest in South America.
That has to be one of the most twisted, ill-informed takes on history I've ever heard! ROTFL!! Pure invention.
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