France on Fire PING
Posted on 11/06/2005 10:19:10 AM PST by FairOpinion
1. Chiract waits 11 days, a week and a half, then calls a meeting. Real agressive stuff (sarcasm). Can you imagine, if we had something like that here and President Bush had just ignored it for a week and a half, then finally called a meeting with his advisors?!
2. Note the last paragrph: They are blaming Sarkozy, who had the only sensible approach of cracking down on these terrorists/criminals early. They are blaming him, instead of the rioting terrorists.
The answer---
Free cheese and porn mags to the yutes.
Put an end to it right there...
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." ---Rush Limbaugh
So they've raised their alert level from whine/wring hands to collaborate?
If it were war, you would have firearms. This is more like a prolonged capitulation, just like May 1940.
It's so difficult to figure out how to make gasoline bombs and learning how to text message. Gesh. What planet was the reporter born on?
Jacques Chirac will appease them somehow. He has no courage to put this down. 10 days of this and he hasnt stopped them yet? He wll appease them and comprimise. He will give the muslims some demands. Cowards.
Chirac exemplifies to a tee the brain-rot that is France today. There seems to be too few Sarkozy's left. Good luck France. You've made your bed, and now you're going to sleep in it, if people don't start torching your homes and businesses next.
Too early Mr. Chirac, you should wait few days more (extreme sarcasm).
Call a meeting - Form a committee - Surrender
SO WHAT! They can call all the meetings they want. Their little crappy country is down the tubes and the only one who knows how to save it is getting blamed for it.
I also highly recommend reading this article by Amir Taheri, which shows how France ignored the worsening problems of the Muslim immigrant basically setting up Muslim islands inside France:
WHY PARIS IS BURNING
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_10712.shtml
EXCERPTS (recommend reading the entire article at link above)
"With cries of "God is great," (=Allah Akhbar) bands of youths armed with whatever they could get hold of went on a rampage and forced the police to flee.
But who lives in the affected areas? In Clichy itself, more than 80 percent of the inhabitants are Muslim immigrants or their children, mostly from Arab and black Africa. In other affected towns, the Muslim immigrant community accounts for 30 percent to 60 percent of the population. But these are not the only figures that matter. Average unemployment in the affected areas is estimated at around 30 percent and, when it comes to young would-be workers, reaches 60 percent.
In these suburban towns, built in the 1950s in imitation of the Soviet social housing of the Stalinist era, people live in crammed conditions, sometimes several generations in a tiny apartment, and see "real French life" only on television.
The French used to flatter themselves for the success of their policy of assimilation, which was supposed to turn immigrants from any background into "proper Frenchmen" within a generation at most.
That policy worked as long as immigrants came to France in drips and drops and thus could merge into a much larger mainstream. Assimilation, however, cannot work when in most schools in the affected areas, fewer than 20 percent of the pupils are native French speakers.
In some areas, it is possible for an immigrant or his descendants to spend a whole life without ever encountering the need to speak French, let alone familiarize himself with any aspect of the famous French culture.
The result is often alienation. And that, in turn, gives radical Islamists an opportunity to propagate their message of religious and cultural apartheid.
Some are even calling for the areas where Muslims form a majority of the population to be reorganized on the basis of the "millet" system of the Ottoman Empire: Each religious community (millet) would enjoy the right to organize its social, cultural and educational life in accordance with its religious beliefs.
In parts of France, a de facto millet system is already in place. In these areas, all women are obliged to wear the standardized Islamist "hijab" while most men grow their beards to the length prescribed by the sheiks.
"All we demand is to be left alone," said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local "emirs" engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities. "
Chirac will propose raising the price of gasoline...hell, it's not like anyone in France has a car that hasn't already been torched.
So how long do ya think it will take for Chirac to ask the UN for help?
Has there even been a curfew in any of the affected neighborhoods.... or is that to extreme?
Not necessarily. Firearms are a very recent addition to the weaponry of war. If you can beat your enemy with gasoline, matches, baseball bats, and hatchets, do you really need to invest in heavier stuff? War in Rwanda was mostly with machetes, and that was certainly a war.
My bad. What I meant to say, if the French really thought this was war, they'd be arming themselves with firearms.
I really need more coffee.
Chirac faced mounting criticism from opposition politicians for not publicly speaking about the violence
This is the problem. To the French, speaking aout the violence is what they fault him for. What about actually stopping the violence (by any means necessary)? The reason these youths are rampaging is because they know the police are playing footsie with them.
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