In all due respect, your paradigm might have a faulty foundation. You have presumed the riots are unrelated to Islam. If you are incorrect, the 5-6 million muslims in France could produce an easy army of 500-600 thousand hardliners.
This whole thing pivots on one point...what is at the bottom of it? When a man concludes he knows and needs no new info...his growth has stopped. He is dead intellectually.
Open your mind. Chirac and Villepin are opening theirs...and I imagine it is quite painful.
"Open your mind. Chirac and Villepin are opening theirs...and I imagine it is quite painful."
The same. Open your mind.
You see a Muslim insurgency. That is your template. You are determined that it be so.
I do not. Not yet anyway. I see the serious threat that, as the riots peter out because of arrests and police presence, that the radical Islamist elements that are in the society will attack with heavier weapons. When that happens it will truly be the moment of truth.