Posted on 11/12/2005 9:50:14 AM PST by NewMediaFan
Some 3,000 police fanned out around Paris on Saturday to counter feared weekend attacks on high-profile targets in the capital as the number of vehicles torched overnight rose slightly elsewhere in France, officials said.
Two Molotov cocktails were tossed into a mosque in the southern city of Carpentras, slightly damaging the porch, local officials said. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has racked the poor suburbs and towns of France since Oct. 27.
Some two weeks ago, tear gas fumes that invaded a mosque in northeast Paris suburb, Clichy-sous-Bois, where violence started, inflamed passions and fed what has become the worst ever suburban unrest in France.
President Jacques Chirac asked that investigators uncover those behind the mosque attack in Carpentras, a town grimly remembered for a 1990 neo-Nazi attack on a Jewish cemetery that sparked national outrage. A body was impaled with an umbrella stick.
The unrest has forced France to squarely confront the touchy issue of the poor suburbs ringing big cities populated by immigrants and their French children. They face soaring unemployment, poverty and discrimination on a daily basis.
Authorities have acknowledged the roots of the problem are deep-seated, perhaps linked to the French approach to immigration which works to fit immigrants, whatever their origins, into a single mold...
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--- The unrest has forced France to squarely confront the touchy issue of the poor suburbs ringing big cities populated by immigrants and their French children. ---
By WAITING, as the title of this article says? Yeah... um... sure.
This is surreal. It is so pathetic you don't know whether to laugh (I do) or cry (not yet.) The slight decline in car burnings reported hopefully (only hundreds and hundreds, we're settling down!) is just pathetic....France is like the abused wife who says "he's not beating me as often...I think this will work out." There is no real rule of law any more, and they can't see what's wrong with that. They think it's all about social injustice. They will no longer be a country. Like Rome, they must fall. They must. You can't stand if law means nothing.
It was only fumes that drove the IslamoPukes to outrage?
In your face Leftist Global-Agenda/MSM attempted whitewash BUMP!
Yes ... perhaps opening your borders to six million Muslims who have no intention of assimilating was not a very good idea.
Has he asked that investigators uncover those behind the attacks on churches and synagogues?
France deserves everything it gets.
Hope France ask for help, it will be time for the single finger salute!
The French Muslim youths have been fuming for years, but this large scale rioting began on October 27th.
I think the French youths realized that the French leaders were willing to let Heinous Hussein control the lives of their Muslim brethren in Iraq.
I think the French Muslims were inflamed by the Iraqi Muslims's official acceptance of their new constitution, on October 25th, because they realized that a Muslim in liberated Iraq has more hope for his future than a Muslim in France has.
If the number had declined by the same amount, would it have been a "slight decline"?
A long time ago I had a girlfriend who loved French movies. I thought they sucked. They made no sense just like the real France.
Anyone know how many cars total have been destroyed since the rioting began back in late October? It must be around 8,000 or so???? Wow. Just incredible to have that much property destroyed. (And, that doesn't include all the other property burned and damaged.)
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP )? Click this picture:
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Then, there is this little problem...
For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:
Kindly note tagline:
I guess it means this will be over when there are no vehicles left to torch?
The French sure must think their citizens are really stupid and can't learn to take steps to keep their vehicles out of harms way.
Doesn't it seem strange that the Frogs still use the old feudal model, comparable with the areas inhabited by poor Serfs surrounding those inhabited by the feudal landowners and townpeople. Could effectively landlock the richer citizens in their cities by the poorer citizens.
I wouldn't want to be a wealthy person living in a French city today.
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