[Oldeconomybuyer]

...the violence has had nothing to do with Islam...

Right.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"...the violence has had nothing to do with Islam..."

Right.

I guess then we could blame the Rodney King riots, the Miami riots, and other riots in America on Christianity.

After all, the vast majority of rioters were Christians, so it Christianity MUST be at the roots of those riots like Islam is at the root of these.

[attiladhun2]

There already is an Islamist civil war taking place in Algeria. This civil war is largely financed by the drug trade and the smuggling of stolen auto parts. That is the connection between terrorism and the riots. Drugs are being supplied by Islamist rebels in Algeria to gangs of thugs in France. Stolen auto parts are supplied to Algerian gangs with similar terrorist sympathies who sell the parts and use the money from both sources to help finance the insurgency there. Same type of arrangment that was used to finance the KLA in Kosovo (remember) and the Taliban in Afghanistan. A number of other Islamic insurgencies are similarly financed in other parts of the world. Nothing new here.