[libstripper]

The growing violence is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair — fertile terrain for crime of all sorts as well as for Muslim extremists offering frustrated youths a way out.

France, with some 5 million Muslims, has the largest Islamic population in Western Europe.

Finally, after going through the usual socialist garbage about the "root causes" of the insurrection, they actually hint at the real cause--Islamofascism.

[bkepley]

Finally, after going through the usual socialist garbage about the "root causes" of the insurrection, they actually hint at the real cause--Islamofascism.

Crap, those middle-eastern delinquints wouldn't know what an Islamo or Facist is.

[Tempest]

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

[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.