It was like pulling teeth. I think reporters there are under a lot of pressure to bury the Muslim angle
It would be interesting to see any memos that have gone out on the matter. Say, for example, a directive specifying which words can't be used in reporting this story...
Who asked it? Brian Kilmeade?
I saw that as well. Brian and Tiki were trying to open eyes. Tiki even mentioned that the Muslim's want to be Muslim's in France not French. Brian said it was a cop-out to wait for programs to assimilate you instead of getting out there and becoming part of your new country.
They've a potential consumer market they are trying to appeal to. Core Islamacism rejects capitalism and consumerism, as I understand it. Perhaps, the MSM sees a new market challenge, and possibly some see the capitalist markets as a means to assimilating the youths/rioters/Islamacists.
There's a danger, IMHO, in the MSM not quite really understanding the nature of beliefs.
I was just watching an interview on Fox with a reporter from Newsweek in France and it is eerie how the reporter danced all around the issue of "muslim" involvement in the riots. A pattern of denial is emerging. This all fits with what we hear from our own administration...that Islam has a heart of "benevolence and love" (eh, Condi?)
"It was like pulling teeth. I think reporters there are under a lot of pressure to bury the Muslim angle." - SauronOfMordor
A good friend of mine that's from Morocco and spent quite a few years in France thinks al Qaeda is funding and masterminding the whole thing. As there is very little employment, thus very little money, for the Muslim youth in France, all that al Qaeda would need to do is show up with wads of cash and tell the youth to have fun, raise hell and get some money in their pockets.