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.
It's different when the rioting is done by somebody who is ethnicly and culturally French. The other French can have some degree of confidence that the rioters know the rules and boundaries
It's something very different when the rioting is being done by the "other", and the French can have no confidence that the rioting will stay within "civilized" boundaries
"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."
No, my friend, it is not too late.
These riots were the result of exclusion. That is what I believe and what the government believes.
But let us suppose that you are correct. Let us suppose that this is, indeed, the beginning of a truly Muslim insurrection.
Then what?
Then some smallish percentage (do not expect women, small children or old people of either sex to be rioting) of at most 5 million people, in a country of 62.5 million, will be engaged in - as so many here have predicted - an outright war with the 57.5 million people all around them.
If there truly is a war, then the outcome is not in doubt. France will win it.
It is to be hoped that it does not come to that, and I doubt it will.