Posted on 11/07/2005 2:44:49 AM PST by Dane
French police made 395 arrests last night as riots intensified for the 11th consecutive night, with violence and fire engulfing towns from the North to the Mediterranean.
In the impoverished suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, where the unrest began on October 27, churches, schools and warehouses were set alight. At least 1,408 vehicles were destroyed, many more than on previous nights, and the random attacks have spread into the heart of the city.
In Grigny, south of the capital, a gang of around 200 youths are reported to have lured police into a housing estate before opening fire with hunting rifles. At least 30 officers were injured, two seriously with lead pellets in the legs and neck.
Riots broke out in beacons of disaffection across the country from Lille, on the border with Belgium, to Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast. In Toulouse, police used tear gas to disperse a mob. Cars were set alight on the streets of Nantes, Orleans, Rennes and Rouen, and youths in St Etienne forced passengers off a bus before burning it. Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete.
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In Strasbourg, youths stole a car and rammed it into a housing project, setting the vehicle and the building on fire. "We’ll stop when Sarkozy steps down," the defiant 17-year-old driver told an Associated Press reporter.
Police are calling for a night-time curfew in affected areas and some senior officers have demanded that troops are brought on to the streets.
Michel Gaudin, France's most senior police officer, said today: "We are witnessing a sort of shock wave that is spreading across the country."
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All I have to say about this whole France burning thing is:
Pass the popcorn.
Hardline imams tell young muslims that it is an insult to islam to work with the infidel. Young muslims are taught that it is better to weaken the kuffar by going on the dole than to contribute to kuffar productivity. Young muslims must obey the diktats of the Koran. They must do just as they are now doing. Jihad.
This would probably be the only benefit to this madness..
By contrast.....we Westerners/Israelis shouldn't feel a thing over such trivial matters as beheadings, bombings, planes crashing into buildings, naval ships exploding, skyscrapers imploding......we infidels are such "reactionaries."
Muslims want autonomy, and they want it in writing. Carve up sections of France and hand it over. They'll set the rules, sharia, whatever. Infidels stay out, hands off. If the French govt. goes into any kind of 'talks' with 'helpful' mullahs, this will be the deal, and they might as well leap off tall buildings (the mullahs say it's okay to throw homosexuals off tall buildings, head first), for France will be finished.
Hunting rifles do not shoot "pellets". Sounds like shot guns.
"If Sarkozy has sufficient authority to resist Chirac and Villepin and is not in danger to being fired, is the current course of action what he wants or is he being held back? Is looks like he has been marginalized by Villepin and is not making key decisions."
Sarkozy has the political power to hold his job, probably.
But he is not being allowed to dispatch forces and use them as he might see fit. That is now in the hands of the PM and the President.
Too late. The negotiations have already happened, and the fatwah is issued to "those who seek divine graces".
Bingo. And meanwhile, outside mullahs are stirring the pot, you can bet on that. Bin Laden and pals will direct the rioters and any talks that come out of a 'ceasefire', and they want autonomy. Just a first step. After that, they'll demand a certain number of important ministerial posts, and end up controlling the country.
ROFLMAO !!!!
They might see recognized autonomy as their only solution, an extension of their present extralegal status. If done correctly, they would end up totally integrated and legal, and prefer that situation. Most people in the third world would prefer to be integrated, but the Gummint/lawyer situation has made it next to impossible. The rioters in France are third world, and not by choice. France has failed to expand its legal property system to include them.
I guess that means 395 of the rioters turned themselves in.
France has nukes and quite a few nuclear power plants, so we can't let Muslims take over.
That is precisely what this is about. Chirac agreed when Algerians wanted to immigrate that they would not have to assimilate and they haven't. What is happening in France has absolutely nothing to do with unemployment. Employment would lead to assimilation and that leads to apostasy.
These "riots" are about the establishment of Islamic countries within France and Europe that obey Sharia. At least that is their initial plan. Once they have their own little territories they will begin to expand and convert and subjugate and kill.
They chose this time to locate France's weak underbelly and they have learned that France (at least the leadership) is all underbelly. France's capitulation says to the muslims, "take it, just don't hurt us." France has indicated it is willing to assume the classic role of dhimmi.
Unless, Sarkozy or someone else who is willing to fight is given the authority to act soon, it is over for France. The rest of the west will have to make plans shortly to secure France's nuclear arsenal so that it doesn't fall into Islamic hands.
France has a history of strikes and marches, people in the streets, so after a while, they get accustomed to it and think it'll blow over the same way it always has. Unfortunately, this time Muslims are rioting, and they have an agenda that means the end of France, the end of Europe, and with easy travel in the EU, no papers, outside terrorists can come in by train. Well, they'll be orchestrating everything over the internet or by cell phone, anyway. France should have smashed this fast and hard, and now it's too late.
I don't think so, Scooter.
We still have 250 million guns (plus or minus) in private hands in this country. Riots like this may happen in NY City, Chicago, etc. If riot's like this happened anyware else, there would be lots of dead rioters after day one, plus US law enforcement would deal with the riots with more force than the French have to date.
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