If these riots are about fuel prices and taxes, I’ll sell you my local bridge.
Does it always have to be Islam? France, and Europe in general, have a multitude of problems because extreme left-wing politics is playing out to its ultimate and inevitable conclusion: failure. And the more it fails, the more they try to fix it by ramping up the causes of its failure. What do lefties find so hypnotizing about their ideology that they can’t see anything else, even when it’s destroying them?