Posted on 11/12/2005 7:17:40 AM PST by DanielKronlid
It is becoming difficult to give you news about the situation in France. Apart from a minor incident involving a mosque, the media have lost interest or are complying with censorship recommendations from their editors who fear that the public would turn to the extreme-right if it receives correct information. Perhaps our attempt to provide information qualifies us as extreme-right too. To avoid legal problems our lawyers advise us to put up a warning:
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In the sixteenth consecutive night of violence in France, 502 cars were set alight. Hundreds of molotov cocktails were thrown at policemen, cars and buildings, including a mosque in Carpentras in the south of the country. In Belgiums sixth consecutive night of car torching, fifteen cars, including one truck and a bus, were damaged by fire eight of them in Brussels. The situation in Denmark seems to be tense as well.
In both Paris and Brussels the authorities are nervous because islamist weblogs have called for demonstrations and violent protests today. The French authorities have banned all rallies and protests until Sunday evening. The Belgian authorities do not want the media to report about the weblogs. In Paris and Brussels the police are on the alert.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International has said it is concerned that the state of emergency in France may lead to human rights violations by the French police. Yesterday, one policeman was jailed and four were suspended because they had beaten up a 19-year old youth in a Paris suburb. The youth had just been released from custody for involvement in riots and had returned to taunt the officers. The beating incident was filmed by the television channel France 2. The channel is one of the French media outlets that does not want to broadcast acts of violence committed by youths for fear of copycat actions. The media devote a lot of attention to the beating incident. Apparently there is no fear that this will lead to copycat behaviour by frustrated policemen.
There is also considerable media attention for two molotov cocktails thrown at a mosque in the southern town of Carpentras. Though there was no material damage the French authorities have strongly condemned the attack. This act of agression is as undignified as it is unacceptable, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said. President Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, too, condemned the agression with the greatest firmness and expressed solidarity with the Muslim community of France.
Earlier this week two churches were set ablaze, but the French government did not express solidarity with the Christians of France. The Jewish community has also been advised to keep quiet about attacks on synagogues lest they attract the attention of copycats. After the attacks, the French authorities did not explicitly express solidarity with the Jews but advised them not to publicize their fears, as such declarations could encourage rioters to attack Jews and Jewish community buildings. Apparently, the media and the politicians are convinced that copycats are never Christians or Jews, but always Muslims. Doesnt that attitude smack of racism?
Ain't it funny that Al Quaeda seems to be having problems in the Middle East but is thriving in Europe?
The marriage between radical Islamism and European totalitarianism made for some very ugly children indeed.
...and Western Civilization forgot they could even be closed, let alone barred.
But then Austria would laugh and Haider point; and the rest of the EU would have to 'politically isolate' France!
Well, what do you expect? He is neither Jewish nor Christian, though he strongly suspects he will soon be Muslim.
A divided house won't stand.
In the case of French socialism, the elites who are socialists sincerely believe a major cause of the violence is due to the frustrations of the violent Muslims from momentary perceptions. Accordingly, instead of first focusing on holding the violent criminals accountable for their behavior and enforcing the law, the socialists first decide to enforce control upon any news of violence. They sincerely believe the news of violence is a major contributor to violence by those who act in a criminally violent fashion.
The French socialist might consider the possibility that the same people acting violently, will probably continue to act in a similar fashion, ... as long as flammable liquids are available, private and public property available to be destroyed, and insufficient force is employed to control their behavior. Another interesting notion and innovative to the socialist mindset is that the same criminals throwing the Molotov cocktails, probably are too busy to watch the TV day and night, and therefore a censorship of the news doesn;t effect their behavior in the least bit.
Of course, if those criminals acting violently do ever calm down to consider the censorship of the news, who would they most likely attack next other than the socialists themselves?
FINALLY!
And they are not far from flopping, either.
Bump, and now we will see what the French, the real French, are made of. Thier leaders are worthless PC fools, but hopefully the French people still have some of that old Frank blood in them.
Just as Italy never regained any of the greatness that was Rome, nor Greece the greatness that was Athens, perhaps we are witnessing the death of the Frank and German peoples. We will see if they still process the strength that once made them great.
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