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Posted on 11/05/2005 4:24:44 AM PST by PianoMan
AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov. 4 - France's worst urban violence in a decade exploded for a ninth night on Friday as bands of youths roamed the immigrant-heavy, working-class suburbs of Paris, setting fire to dozens of cars and buildings while the government struggled over the violence and the underlying frustrations fueling it.
The unrest, which has also spread to other parts of France with large North African and Arab populations, prompted the American and Russian governments to warn citizens visiting Paris to avoid its poor, outlying neighborhoods. France reduced train service to Charles de Gaulle Airport after two trains became targets of rioters earlier in the week.
A handicapped woman riding a bus in the Sevran suburb suffered burns over 20 percent of her body Thursday night after two youths doused the inside of the bus with a flammable liquid and set it on fire. Youths have also burned cars in Dijon, in the east, and in Marseille, in the south.
The violence has isolated the country's tough-talking, anticrime interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, whom some people blame for having worsened the situation with his blunt statements about "cleaning out" the "thugs" from those neighborhoods.
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While the vast majority of the young people behind the nightly attacks are Muslim, experts and residents warned against seeing the violence through the prism of religion. The cultural divide between these second- and third-generation immigrants and the native French is deeper because they come from Muslim families, but to date the violence has had nothing to do with Islam.
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But, let the fourth paragraph from the end, shown after the snip, allay your fears.
The French government's strategy seems to be wait until the rioters get bored and stop.
Right.
George Bush is a proponent of Islam, the religion of peace, so, the French need to give these undernourished youths more money.
"The violence has isolated the country's tough-talking, anticrime interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, whom some people blame for having worsened the situation with his blunt statements about "cleaning out" the "thugs" from those neighborhoods."
So identifying and dealing with the problem is something they don't want to do, because it may make things worse? The logic!
The French need to call in Prince Charles to explain to them how to relate to Muslims.
The only way that works to put something like this down is the bayonet. Force. But do the frogs have the steel in the spine to do it.
"Law without force is impotent." - Pascal
Put it on pay per view and call it "reality TV". People will rush over there to join in.
From here in Kanukistan, I observe that a country that doesn't care enough about itself to clean up its act deserves the results.
LOL
Napoleon would have brought out the artillery long before it reached this point.
He had b@lls, the current frog don't.
Remember he was Corsican, not French.
Yes, the 3rd law of frog military victory.
They win when they are lead by other then the French.
Maybe they could being Hillary in as a Midnight Basketball Consultant?
"The violence has nothing to do with Islam"....
These Leftists at the NY Times are actually expecting people to believe this crap. Thats unbelievable in itself.
True. But Napoleon didn't have a French Army with a large percentage of Muslims in the ranks. I don't know the numbers, but they are likely substantial.
Dear France: Appeasement doesn't work. Those who don't remember history are forced to repeat it. Remember June, 1940?
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