Rioting Spreads to 300 Towns in France

AP (via Yahoo) ^ | 11/07/05 | ANGELA DOLAND

[F.J. Mitchell]

Am I that transparent?

[softwarecreator]

These riots are about race and ethnicity, not religion.

Too much kool-aid today?  Maybe Bush & Cheney pointed their 'Acme Riot Machine' at France.  And Germany.  And Brussels.  And Denmark.

Wow, that's a lot of digruntled youths.

[Tempest]

quagmire! Time for France to withdraw....

[Tempest]

I find it disturbing how the article is so apologetic for the violence.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Bump for later read

[TASMANIANRED]

With 300 cities involved this can no longer be contained.

The french lost the 2nd night when they did nothing.

[Bogolyubski]

They can't detain them too long - otherwise they might miss tomorrow night's Car-B-Q. Might offend their delicate sensibilities, after all.

[technochick99]

Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose reference to the troublemakers as "scum" appeared to inflame passions.

You should have read to the last sentence. It's Sarkozy's fault.

[samtheman]

Car-B-Q

New item on the French menu!

[TradicalRC]

Africans? I had Always heard about how much more tolerant the French were to our black brethren -from American liberals.

[Mr. Mojo]

North Africans, aka Arabs.

[TradicalRC]

When you forsake faith, language, culture and borders and embrace secularism, multi-culturalism and open borders-This Is What You Get. Observe and Learn.

[oyez]

The Police will protect the French. Thats what the anti-gunners would say. IMHO, the police may be too busy protecting themselves to protect the public.

[H-Squared]

What a great way to sell new cars. Peugeot and Renault probably have their PR people in the streets agitating Muslims to burn autos. Can Ford and GM be far behind?

[jb6]

They do have "nationalist" groups up in Normandy and Brittany that keep the Islamics in check. If this continues, I believe, that the right forces and the military will eventually stage a coup....you know, step in to "save" the Republic from Nero...er Chirac.