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Although the French riots have been officially proclaimed over, forty to sixty vehicles are still being burnt by rioting Muslims each night, a senior member of the Minstry of Internal Affairss, Stéphane Fratacci, said Thursday. Mr. Fratacci made the announcement at a special session of the French State Council, convened to review a request made by a group of University professors to abolish the State of Emergency, which was imposed in the aftermath of the mass riots that engulfed France last November.

Here is the salient point of a rather lengthy expose'... "The conclusion one may draw from this is that the authorities in Sweden and Norway know about, or should know about, a disturbing amount of Muslim immigrant rapes of native Scandinavian women, yet choose not to make this information known to the public.Perhaps it would be just too politically incorrect to reveal the negative effects of decades of naïve immigration policies. Perhaps it would also destroy too many multicultural pipe dreams among the intellectual elites, who have built their current careers and reputations on advocating how culturally and economically enriching...

PARIS (Reuters) - French Muslim leaders denounced on Thursday efforts to blame Muslims and Islam for recent riots in the country's rundown suburbs and said they saw worrying signs of growing prejudice against their faith here. ADVERTISEMENT Many young rioters may have been from Muslim backgrounds, but their violent outburst was a protest against unemployment, poor housing and other bias they faced because of their foreign origins, they told journalists. Urban violence, which some politicians in France and some media abroad portrayed as a kind of Muslim uprising, fell back to normal levels on Thursday after three weeks in which...

PARIS, Nov 16 (Reuters) - French Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy received a boost on Wednesday from an opinion poll showing strong approval for his handling of almost three weeks of urban unrest, now on the wane. The survey put Sarkozy ahead of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, likely to be his main rival for the presidency in 2007, and showed both had come through France's worst civil unrest in almost 40 years much better than expected. Youngsters angered by a lack of jobs and opportunities in poor suburbs protested for the 20th successive night, but police said...