[MEG33]

Good read
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1521615/posts
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Youth gangs, overwhelmingly French-born and Muslim, have engaged in a nation-wide rampage that by November 8 had burned 5,000 vehicles, a few schools, kindergartens, police stations, shopping malls, and post offices. Police officers have been wounded and an older man beaten to death. Some 800 individuals have been arrested and a curfew locally imposed to stem this anomic wave of gang violence that is spreading all over France -- and beyond. But the riots increasingly and alarmingly suggest that Islamist radicals see criminality as an opportunity for recruitment, while the criminals see Islam as a legitimizer.

There are gangs, and there are Gangs...

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

Are they looting?

[wouldntbprudent]

But the riots increasingly and alarmingly suggest that Islamist radicals see criminality as an opportunity for recruitment, while the criminals see Islam as a legitimizer.

Yup. As I've said before, clearly terrorist operatives around the world, but particularly in the mideast, must be viewing these developments as fertile ground in which to finally grow the seeds of organized terror such that they can open a western front in the war.