Posted on 11/05/2005 1:15:53 PM PST by NewMediaFan
Imams in the Paris suburban region of Seine-Saint-Denis have refuted claims that Islam was being used to fan the flames of rioting that continues to grip the capital, citing continued efforts to calm down the situation.
"Devout Muslims would never do such actions which run in the face of basic Islamic tenets against sabotage," Zuhair Buraik, the imam of Tariq Bin Ziyad mosque, told IslamOnline.net on Saturday, November 5.
Daw Meskine, the imam of the Clichy-Sous-Bois mosque and the secretary general of the French Council of Imams, agreed.
"Security forces have not implicated any pious Muslims in the rioting and violence, behind the clashed with the police," he said.
A hundred people were evacuated overnight from two apartment blocks in one northern Paris suburb after an arson attack set dozens of cars alight in an underground garage.
Two textile warehouses and a car showroom were also torched to the northeast of the city.
In a worrying sign, the rampages that have gripped the poorer immigrant-populated outskirts of Paris spread, for the first time, to other parts of the country, including Lille and Rouen in the north, Rennes in the west, and Toulouse, Pau and Marseille in the south.
On October 27, the electrocution of two teenagers, believed to be traced by the police in the slump Seine-Saint-Denis, sparkled the trouble, the worst since students' riots in 1968.
But since then it has become a challenge to the authority of the government and a protest against the dismal economic prospects, rampant discrimination and heavy-handed policing that the youth in the suburbs suffer.
In total, since the beginning of the rioting, more than 2,000 vehicles have been burnt and more than 420 people arrested.
Pacifiers
Several Imams interviewed by IOL the Paris poverty-ridden areas said they have...
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Let me know if he ever says it in Arabic to a Muslim audience, without winking.
Of course not, they are the victims.
ROFL..you got that right..
They're sounding like their counterparts on the West Bank.
They are liars, saying that, they have a perfect model in CHIRAC.
Chrac is called in France as "SUPER MENTEUR", which I believe translate as SUPER LIAR.
Figures. They cheered Sept. 11th, then distanced themselves from it, too. Nice try, Ahkmed, you can't walk away from this.
Of couse they distance themselves,,,,they are not stupid, just arrogant!
soo,,,did any of them say why they are not out there demanding an end to this behavior?
Denial is a sickness.
Whew, I feel better now!
How many imams have been roaming the streets trying to settle things down?
Put your money where your mouth is, Mohammed!
Bwaaahahahahahaha!
Stop it! You're killing me Zuhair!
Bwaaaahahahahahah!
Good little muslims toeing-the-line of the Koran and their leaders can't even be honest!
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
And they want respect from us. Not me!
Islam isn't going to hell, it is a part of hell.
Put your money where your mouth is, Mohammed!
How many times throughout history has any muslim done anything at all practical to stop the oppressive and utterly violent killing of non-muslims? Ever?
And let's cut with "the poor" already!
If the poor have to act like savages and barbarians, then to hell with them! What they're doing sure ain't making them any richer. If they took half that energy, time, and resources and put them towards something useful, they wouldn't be poor, dammit!
They all want to immigrate to their respective countries and then get welfare or some other support from the people of the country to which they immigrated, then in their free time, which they have tons of, they plan their hosts' demise!
Oh, when are people going to wake up here. Perhaps France falling will help.
PS, unless France can reverse the momentum of this BS, they'll be in the same place, for the most part, that they would have been in had Hitler taken over Europe, only worse.
How many Imams are in the streets calming things down?
Also, how many parents are ordering their teenage kids to stay in the house?
Muslims have always talked out of both sides of their mouths, beginning with Muhammed himself. It's their duty to lie to Infidels.
Their religion dictates that lies are permitted inorder that the infidels pushed quickly to their just punishment from the maker in the afterlife.
Lies + murder = doing good
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