The Fire This Time

Newsweek International ^ | Nov. 14, 2005 | Christopher Dickey

[ncountylee]

Years of racism and neglect explode in a week of riots across France's mostly Muslim immigrant ghettos.

Word of the deaths spread quickly through Clichy-sous-Bois, a grim collection of housing projects an hour by train and bus from the center of Paris. Two teenage boys had been electrocuted while trying to hide near a transformer. Rumor said they were running from police. Soon, dozens of angry young men came from the soulless high-rises looking for cops to fight and cars to burn on streets named, as it happens, for heroes of French culture: Boulevard Emile Zola, Allee Albert Camus, Rue Picasso. Dead white men. "It's Baghdad here," the rioters shouted. By the end of that first night, Oct. 27, police would count 15 cars torched and six arrests. No firefighters or cops were injured and authorities claimed the situation was stabilized. But they were very wrong.

Night after night last week rage spread through the ghettos that ring Paris, then beyond—to the slums of Dijon in Burgundy, Rouen in Normandy, Toulouse, Rennes, Marseilles. When, on the fourth night, a tear-gas canister exploded near the entrance to a warehouselike mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, forcing hundreds of worshipers to flee barefoot and gagging into Place Anatole France, a new cry went up from the vandals. "Now this is war," said one. Others cried "jihad."

It was neither, in fact, and the Paris known to tourists was not burning. It was far from the city center that cars and dumpsters were incinerated, buses attacked with Molotov cocktails and hundreds of arrests made. Police said gangs were increasingly organized, using the Internet and cell-phone text messages to coordinate. Dozens of people were injured and shots were fired at police; on Friday night alone nearly 900 cars were torched nationwide.

[Tempest]

you shouldn't run from police....

[Cincinna]

This story needs an update.
There has been rioting in the center of Paris at Place de la République. The rioting has continued for 10 nights and is spreading.
Some "leaders" in these Muslim ghettos are calling for separation and leadership under Sharia law.

EURABIA on the march.

[syriacus]

Dickey is just another Marxist pig with a college diploma.

You'd think that Dickey would appreciate that fact that both Picasso and Camus had been communists, at some point in their lives.

[nopardons]

bttt

[GOPJ]

I don't have the stomach to read the whole article from Newsweek International, but I would like to know: does it include the phrase "wake-up call"?

I didn't see "wake up call," "midnight basketball," or "build a community center" but knowing liberals, it's coming... Where bad liberal ideas collide with an angry underclass it's always destruction. Paris is finished as a tourist center.

[King Prout]

hrmn... did I simply imagine reading that these muslim twits doused with fuel and set fire to an elderly bus rider a day or so ago?

[King Prout]

time to start killing rioters.

[Popman]

What has shaken the French government, and badly, is its continued inability to contain the metastasizing anger spreading through the country's many predominantly Muslim ghettos. Like a Middle Eastern intifada, the violence is stripping away whatever comfortable assumptions existed about the authorities' ability to cope. Decades of French policies intended to force the integration of immigrants and their children into French society are seen to have failed, and in the age of terror, the fear is that rage like this will swell the ranks of radical Islamists in the heart of Europe. For years, itinerant preachers have moved through these same communities recruiting for holy wars in Bosnia, Chechnya and now Iraq, where a few young French Muslims have gone to die as suicide bombers. Madrid and London have shown what happens when that sort of fury is turned inward.

The French are fools to think that appeasement works. They have finally realized that if you appease the tiger, it only means you will be eaten last.

[Popman]

Wow, the level of stupidity on that DU thread is mind boggling .

No, actually it frightening. The disconnect between real time events and moonbat conspiracy theories is on a level of mental psychosis

[martin_fierro]

dozens of angry young men came from the soulless high-rises

Public housing is no longer enough.

It must be soulful public housing, y'see.

[martin_fierro]

Coming soon to Detroit.

[Vision]

Years of racism and neglect explode in a week of riots across France's mostly Muslim immigrant ghettos

Oh yea, the Muslims have been so neglected and hated. They really struggle against those overbearing French

[Frank_Discussion]

No, they don't know. They only want to see it as Bush's Fault (tm), which, of course, is only beneficial to the enemies of the West.

[King Prout]

in calling them "retarded" you are being far too kind.

[libstripper]

A lot of those 55 were people who badly needed killing.

[ncountylee]

If you ask me the body count was too low. A few televised examples of "you loot, we shoot" could have stopped the riot sooner.

[Valpal1]

using the Internet and cell-phone text messages to coordinate

Then turn them off. Cheeze eating surrender monkeys. Round them up and kick them out of your country