You have made me realize how much I don't listen to the morning show..I just turned it on for noise while I read here..
There is a history of France not liking "furriners"(like us)..They have been content to have the African muslims ghettoed in their own spots..not allowing them to feel a part of ..The flip side of the coin is that the Muslims want "no go" for French police..They want to impose Muslim rules in their area..and hate the French..They don't like Western rules.
Poverty,no..idleness, yes.. according to this..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521081/posts
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The elephant isn't really there, the media assure us. "The violence in France has not taken on religious overtones," said the New York Times. "Islamic ideology and leaders play no role in the disturbances," said the Washington Post.
But the "disaffected youth" shout "Allahu Akbar" as they toss Molotov cocktails into churches and synagogues. They talk of turning Paris into "Baghdad on the Seine."
French arrogance and racism, and the sclerosis of the French welfare state help explain why the elephant hasn't assimilated. But the larger reason is that the elephant has chosen not to.
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But it was the very same problem over in the UK. The neighborhood where the bombers lived was cut off from the outside on purpose. Neighbors of the community said they had no idea these men were plotting to blow up things.
And .. if anybody is paying attention .. the same thing holds true in the USA. There are muslims all over the place and they stay huddled in little communities where they do not allow the general public to integrate into them, and they do not integrate into the outside.
When you combine that with the fact that the French and the British are snobs who don't want these people to integrate, you have a recipe for disaster.
When they show up for job interviews looking like something out of Laurence of Arabia .. the general public is hesitant to hire them. But .. of course .. we're the intolerant ones because we will not accept their standards.
If they don't like our standards .. then why on earth would you move your family to a place like that ..?? We know why .. because they plan on taking over and imposing their standards on us.