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French rioters engaging in “civil disobedience”
From USA Today contributing editor Souhelia Al-Jadda comes this, shall we say, ‘interesting’ description of the rioters who are killing and injuring people, as well as looting and burning massive amounts of property (emphasis added):
The riots in France that started in the Parisian suburbs are ringing alarm bells throughout Europe. These incidents of civil disobedience should serve as lessons to neighboring countries on how not to treat a minority population.
The entire editorial is a fascinating read, as it blames the French – but not in the manner you might think. Here’s more:
For more than 50 years, France has done little to assimilate its nearly 6 million African and Muslim minorities, leaving them forgotten in impoverished ghettos, where there are 21% unemployment, few services and virtually no government representation.
Now, this neglect has come back to haunt the French republic. It did not take much — the perceived police killing of two teenage boys — to spark a two-week wildfire of fury by disenfranchised youth. Rather than address the root of the young people’s discontent, however, the French government has taken a hard-line approach, treating the riots as a bout with organized crime. The government’s actions confirmed what these minorities have known all along: The state treats them with contempt. When French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy referred to rioters as “scum,” the movement grew even more defiant with calls for his resignation.
The truth of the matter is that France has done *too much* to cater towards the Muslim population, and only recently changed course but only slightly (with the headscarf ban which caused quite a stir). Yet this editor blames France for not doing enough to ‘help’ Muslims assimilate there?
Hat tip: Little Green Footballs
In other news regarding odd descriptions, just why are news outlets describing the terrorists (including the leader of the pack: a Muslim man by the name of Mohamed Abdi Hassan ), who attempted to hijack a cruise ship off the coast of Somalia “pirates” rather than “terrorists”? Newsbusters has more linkage on this.
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Actually France has been tough on Moslems, or at least with Moslem terrorists.
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MSM semantics, the good in the MSM eyes cannot be called bad, even when they do bad things.
The assertion of the article isn’t all wrong. France did invite waves of Muslim immigrants for economic reasons, and then arranged to segregate them from the larger mass of French society. Both decisions were extremely foolish, but in combination they’ve been lethal beyond nightmares.
That having been said, there’s no excusing the mass violence French Muslims have been committing these past two weeks, and no possible doubt that Islam has been a large part of what’s powered it. The press might be reluctant to admit this, but the French people know it just as well as we do. It’s quite possible that we’ll see a mass deportation, if not a mass massacre, of French Muslims in the near future.
Good point, Francis – the larger point being they were assimilated culturely with everyone else. This is, in my opinion, literally a culture war.
The French model is part of this problem. In the States and Canada citizenship means what it says – equal partnership. Despite the generous social services in France it remains a two-tiered society.
Under these circumstances of course N.Africans seem threatening because they haven’t been assimilated and are therefore still “foreign”. The logic of creating these massive sink estates in which to warehouse these people is just plain nuts. It helps to cater to the idea of the “Islamist boogeyman” and his hidden agenda.
Also anyone who has spent any time in France knows that racism is alive and well there, but is practiced in a rather sophisticated fashion. I know “sophisticated racist” sounds like an oxymoron, but in fact the French are very good at this type of thing.
You may recall that not so long ago the French Ambassador to the UK let slip the “dirty little country” remark in reference to Israel. He thought the comment was off-the-record of course. This type of commentary reflects the mindset of some, even those in authority, whose hypocrisy may now be coming back to haunt them.
While the Islamist factor can’t be discounted in all of this , racism also remains a problem in France and no forward looking democratic nation in this day and age can afford to allow ingrained racism to remain unchallenged.
Civil disobedience huh? It makes sense I guess. I thought the riots had kind of a Ghandi like feel to them…