Posted on 11/05/2005 11:12:03 PM PST by SmithL
LE BLANC-MESNIL, France, Nov. 5 -- Mohammed Rezzoug, caretaker of the municipal gymnasium and soccer field, knows far more about the youths hurling firebombs and torching cars on the streets of this Paris suburb than do the police officers and French intelligence agents struggling to nail the culprits.
He can identify most of the perpetrators. So can almost everyone else in the neighborhoods that have been attacked.
"They're my kids," said Rezzoug, a garrulous 45-year-old with thinning black hair and skin the color of a walnut.
While French politicians say the violence now circling and even entering the capital of France and spreading to towns across the country is the work of organized criminal gangs, the residents of Le Blanc-Mesnil know better. Many of the rioters grew up playing soccer on Rezzoug's field. They are the children of baggage handlers at nearby Charles de Gaulle International Airport and cleaners at the local schools.
"It's not a political revolution or a Muslim revolution," said Rezzoug. "There's a lot of rage. Through this burning, they're saying, 'I exist, I'm here.' "
Such a dramatic demand for recognition underscores the chasm between the fastest growing segment of France's population and the staid political hierarchy that has been inept at responding to societal shifts. The youths rampaging through France's poorest neighborhoods are the French-born children of African and Arab immigrants, the most neglected of the country's citizens. A large percentage are members of the Muslim community that accounts for about 10 percent of France's 60 million people.
One of Rezzoug's "kids" -- the countless youths who use the sports facilities he oversees...from Ivory Coast. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, he'd just awakened and ventured back onto the streets after a night of setting cars ablaze.
"We want to change the government," he said,
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"French youths".......Yeah, right.
If they're victims of anything, it's socialism.
"I'm sending you this little molotov cocktail to say, 'Hi! I like you! Notice me! And even though you're just my neighbor's car, I really wish you would pay more attention to me."
"Rage of French Youth Is Just Misplaced Energy"
I understand that yesterday or the day before they "recognized" that handicapped ladies in busses were flammable too. This is completely animal behaviour that is completely unexcusable.
Long-term, this is nothing short of a complete repudiation of the last 30 years of French social policy. It will be interesting to see what the outcome of this will look like.
I think that the sitting French government, like so many multicultural zealots, would rather ride their country into flaming ruin than admit that their silly theories might be wrong. And along the way they'll be blaming us. Bet on it.
Oh, well as long as it's not a revolution...
You got it brother. Can't put my finger on it but I "sniff...sniff" smell some organizational help coming from Syria and/or Iran.
Presumably the immigration began for real in the 70s, when it was seen as something of a solution for a temporary employment problem in France. So the majority of these people consider themselves in effect full-fledged French citizens, and I can't say they're wrong, because the French policymakers apparently pursued their hollow liberal zeal to foster multiculturalism at any cost:
what seems to have begun as a pragmatic solution to an economic problem was explained ideally as good ol' French liberte, egalite, fraternite.
It was a foolish conceit to begin with, but it is what fills the void when a country has lost its sense of national identity . It is what's going on in the US also, but we're always in the process of trying to FIND our national identity, since racially and ethnically we have been in chaos for at least 200 years.
Presumably the immigration began for real in the 70s, when it was seen as something of a solution for a temporary employment problem in France. So the majority of these people consider themselves in effect full-fledged French citizens, and I can't say they're wrong, because the French policymakers apparently pursued their hollow liberal zeal to foster multiculturalism at any cost:
what seems to have begun as a pragmatic solution to an economic problem was explained ideally as good ol' French liberte, egalite, fraternite.
It was a foolish conceit to begin with, but it is what fills the void when a country has lost its sense of national identity . It is what's going on in the US also, but we're always in the process of trying to FIND our national identity, since racially and ethnically we have been in chaos for at least 200 years.
AMEN!
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Molly Moore Encourages Empathy For Palestinian Terrorists
It would be hard to invent a better example of what's wrong with Washington Post coverage of Arab-Israeli news than the paper's July 19, 2004 front-page story. The headline is “In Jenin, Seven Shattered Dreams; Boyhood Hopes Forged on Theater Stage Dissolve in Reality of Intifada.” Post correspondent Molly Moore presents Arab murderers as youths who lost their way amidst destruction and death precipitated primarily by Israelis.
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=733
Also, Molly Moore comes across as a simple minded weirdo when you read how she describes people she is interviewing, as can be seen from both this "news article" and the one referenced in the link.
The French story:
"They're my kids," said Rezzoug, a garrulous 45-year-old with thinning black hair and skin the color of a walnut.
The Palestinian story:
Moore's focal point, Kaneri is “a towering man with limpid eyes the color of rich toffee.”
'I certainly can recognize terrorists.'
obviously the washPOS cant.
I seem to recall seeing some articles to that effect here. Maybe Europe will get the rectocraniectomy it so desperately needs in time to fight back. Or maybe not.
This IS Europa's wake up call. Unite and join us or die like Rome.
Muslims were all born in a rage!
"I certainly can recognize terrorists."
Why does MSM and WAPO come to mind?
There was some rioting going on in Denmark too but I haven't heard much about it. Has anybody else?
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