This started as just a bunch of thugs angry at police... some opportunists have decided to make into something else.... I mean- there is no doubt that it is now a political uprising... but I odn't think the first "rioters" had any reason for anything. The press came in making excuses and reasons instead of admitting that the Muslims were acting just like the "conservatives" have described them.
It is like the whole- I murder, rape, and steel because my dad beat me and mom was hooker defense... don't you think?
IT'S SIMPLY ISLAM. All the stupid excuses come from the socialist camp.
Nov. 6, 2005 update: As Muslim youth riot, burn cars and buildings across France, and declare war on the interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, Muslim governments jump into the act. Yesterday, the official Libyan news agency, JANA, quoted Muammar Qaddafi expressing to Jacques Chirac in a telephone conversation his "disquiet" about the developments in France and his offer to help deal with them. No less noteworthy is Chirac's assuring Qaddafi that everything is "under control" (when it plainly is not).
The spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamid Reza Assefi, issued a statement today also expressing "disquiet" and adding more menacingly: "We hope that the French government will respect the rights of its people and respond to its demands non-violently. We will not accept the violation of human rights in this country." He added that "the French government and police should treat their minorities with respect."
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