French Crescendo of Destruction: From Paris center to the Provinces

Le Figaro ^ | Nov. 6, 2005 | Le Figaro with AFP

[DB]

And then what happens to French assets and French citizens living in Muslim countries?

I think I'd get out fast.

[joshhiggins]

What more needs to be said?

Virtually every story I have read has talked about how many cars are burned. There is a lot more than cars being burned and the media is ignoring it. Just check out this slide show before Reuters takes it down.

[Truthsayer20]

How is it possible that there have been very few casualties during these riots? Are the rioters unarmed? It seems so.

[Cplus]

You're right.
I have learned that the French include Molotov Cocktail as one particular sort of "engin incendiaire", so that's probably what they mean here.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

They need a whiff of grapeshot.

[garyhope]

Bon, tres bon.

Merci.

ROFL aussi.

[agere_contra]

Please tell the BBC what YOU think

[JasonC]

Um, "pied noirs" refered to the European settlers in North Africa, not North African immigrants in France.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

the rioters don't need anything more than molotov cocktails..the french are armed only with white flags..it's a no-brainer..

[libstripper]

From what I've read, the Mudslimes had pretty much gained total control of the various suburbs involved in the rioting, to the point that the French police wouldn't even enter those places to enforce French law. In other words, they were in the process of creating an armed state within a state where French law didn't apply. When the initial contingent of riot police entered this whole development was challenged. Hence, the riots appear to be a deliberately planned effort to exclude the French authorities and French law from a large part of France. The same thing could happen here. Much as I dislike the Frogs, I hope for their sake and ours that they have the guts to impose martial law on all the rioting suburbs.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I agree..out of one side of their mouth the rioters say they're not included, out of the other they say they don't WANT to be included and for everyone to stay out..

[libstripper]

France has been invaded by osmosis. Now the French have to recapture a large part of their own country. It could so easily happen here that it's scary. Every time I see a Mudslime woman in a headscarf, I feel a sense of absolute physical loathing and revulsion. Rattle snakes and copperheads bother me a lot less.

[SamAdams76]

Helicopters armed with cameras...

Looks like those Frenchies are getting series...

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Imagine this if we don't stop it there..

[Jimmy Valentine]

The same thing that will happen to our citizens living in Muslim countries. "Skedaddle"

Come home and get ready for the fight.

[petercooper]

bttt

[purpleland]

"It is interesting that Steyn said today that the major reason for the French not supporting the Iraq invasion may not have been French cowardice or that France was on Saddam's payroll, it may have been fear of a reaction just like this from the alienated French-Arab youth."

What kind of insipid leadership does France have that allows its foreign policy to be dictated by its fear of "alienated French-Arab youth"? That the French government preferred to collude with tyrant Saddam and the corrupt U.N? Wisdom and history proves that a benevolent containment does not subdue a malignant ("alientated") bully force having pathological propensities.

French government's ideal of egalitarianism:
French-Arab ghettos contained by welfare state's largesse. These ghettos are cauldrons in which self-imposed "alienated" Muslims foment their antagonism toward Western society. The reality seems that French Muslims want a separate society but with equal rule. Ref: Holland's Muslim dominated city Rotterdam.

Deport the "alienated" Muslims to their countries of origin or to nations with values compatible with Muslim/Islam dictates.

[Corky Boyd]

What seems to be incredible is the fact the French government hasn't taken the normally accepted procedures in riot control. Have they declared a curfew? Are they arresting the leaders? Are they showing they are in control? Answer: no, no and no.

No, the French are having ceaseless cabinet meetings while the whiffs of burning cars, warehouses and schools permeate the French countryside. In quellling riots sooner is better than later. Yet the French government diddles, concerned with political correctness and paralyzed by fear. At some point they will have to take decisive action. But as the riots become more widespread and the rioters more emboldened, the solution will become far more difficult and regretfully, bloodier.

[liberallarry]

The French never recovered from Napoleon's defeat. 1870 was terrible for them, they lost one quarter of their youth during WWI and were saved from defeat only by our intervention. WWII finished them as a fighting force and a great nation. They're suffering from the same psychological malaise as the Muslims.

[King Prout]

THANK you