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Originally posted by AceOfBase
Everything happens for a reason and the reason for French racism towards the muslims may be due to the actions of the muslims.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
Originally posted by Souljah
Everything Happens for a Reason - and the Reason here is NOT, that they are Radical Islamists.
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You always GET what you GIVE - and LOOK what the French have given these People.
Look at what the Muslims have given the French people who allowed them into their country. Violence and racism against the native population. Everything happens for a reason and the reason for French racism towards the muslims may be due to the actions of the muslims.
[edit on 7-11-2005 by AceOfBase]
Originally posted by AceOfBase
Look at what the Muslims have given the French people who allowed them into their country. Violence and racism against the native population. Everything happens for a reason and the reason for French racism towards the muslims may be due to the actions of the muslims.
Originally posted by AceOfBase
You are in denial and are purposely not seeing the ethnicity of the rioters if you claim you don't have proof they are muslims.
The riots are over the deaths of two muslim boys from muslim neighborhoods. The neighborhoods where the riots initially started all had a muslim majority.
Do you think Christian rioters set fire to the church?
I think you know better than that. It was muslims.
BTW, why did you save your outrage for me, for merely suggesting that a mosque be burned, when you don't show and outrage for the church that really was burned?
Originally posted by Souljah
ANY Religion and ANY Race would stand up for their Rights in this case - so I ask you Please, to stop pointing fingers at the Muslim Community, because YOU KNOW, that everybody would do the same in their Place.
Originally posted by Souljah
I wonder if anyone has tried to Imagine how it is in their Shoes.
Originally posted by Souljah
You think the Main Reason for these Riots is the fact that these Kids are Bored?
WRONG.
They have had Enough of Police Racism and Brutality.
They have had Enough of Isolation.
The New French Revolution
For almost half a century, Europe has depended on imported labor to do the kind of menial jobs its own people don't want to do -- so much so that, today, the population of France is almost 10 percent Muslim.
They are the descendants of Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian workers who came from France's ex-colonies.
Now, many of them live in neglected public housing projects, ruled by violent gangs and increasingly susceptible to Islamic fundamentalism.
When people talk about ghettos in France, they're talking about high-rise complexes that have been built far away from the city center to house African and Arab immigrants.
Just saying you live in the neighborhood is enough to get your job application thrown in the garbage. And the unemployment amongst young people is four times the national average.
With little hope of making it outside the projects, many of these young men try to dominate their own neighborhoods, resorting to violence, especially against young women.
They rule gangland style, combined with the male-dominated traditions of the Arab countries they came from. It's gotten so bad that, today, most of the young women only feel safe if they are covered up, or if they stay at home. Girls who want to look just like other French girls are considered provocative, asking for trouble.
Author: Elaine Sciolino/NYT NYT
Publication: The International Herald Tribune
Date: October 23, 2003
The boys were patient, standing in line and waiting their turn to rape.
Their two victims, girls of 13, were patient as well, never crying out, at least that is what the neighbors said, and enduring the violence and abuse not once, but repeatedly over five months.
That was three years ago. Late last month, 10 young men, now ranging in age from 18 to 21, were convicted of rape in a closed courtroom in nearby Evry and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to five years. Seven others will go on trial in November. The fact that they are being brought to justice at all is highly unusual.
The phenomenon of gang rape in France has become banal. It occurs - how often is unknown - in the concrete wastelands built as cheap housing for immigrants on the outskirts of France's big cities. Here, according to sociologists and prosecutors, teenage boys, many of them loosely organized into gangs, prey on neighborhood girls.
Many of the boys are raised in closed, traditional families and are hopelessly confused or ignorant about sex; others are simply street toughs. In this world, women enjoy little respect; often girls who appear weak, or who wear tight-fitting clothing or go out unaccompanied by their fathers or brothers are considered fair game.
To avoid trouble, many girls of the projects have taken to wearing loose-fitting jogging clothes and hidden themselves behind domineering fathers or brothers; others have organized themselves into their own gangs. Many of the Muslim girls have donned head scarves - more for protection than out of religious conviction.
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway - Authorities Look the Other Way.
Numbers released in January 2005 indicate a sharp rise in the number of rape charges in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city:
Thomas Anderberg, responsible for statistics at the Malmö Police, says there was a doubling of the number of reported rapes by ambush in 2004, following what was already a decade of steadily increasing numbers of sexual crimes. - I think that’s great news, says Anna Gustafsson, head of the Domestic Violence Unit at the Malmö Police. She suggests that the increase is due to the fact that women who otherwise wouldn’t press charges for rape now choose to contact the police.
In other words, Gustafsson claims that we are dealing with a “technical” increase, not a real one. However, national statistics reveal that reported rapes against children have almost doubled in Sweden during the past ten years:
According to Swedish Radio on Tuesday, statistics from Sweden’s National Council for Crime Prevention show that the number of reported rapes against children is on the rise. The figures have nearly doubled in the last ten years: 467 rapes against children under the age of 15 were reported in 2004 compared with 258 in 1995. Legal proceedings continue this week in a case involving a 13 year old girl from Motala who was said to have been subjected to a group rape by four men. (Note: These four men were Kurdish Muslims, who raped the girl for hours and even took photos of doing so)
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Muslim rape concern
Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases against young Danish girls.
As Robert Spencer has demonstrated, rape can indeed be linked to Islamic teachings of Jihad, and even to the example of Muhammad himself, his Sunna. Above all, it is connected to Islamic notions of the role of women in society, and their behaviour in the public sphere. An Islamic Mufti in Copenhagen sparked a political outcry after publicly declaring that women who refuse to wear headscarves are "asking for rape." Apparently, he isn’t the only Muslim in Europe to think this way:
France hit by a burning rage
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Trouble was reported in Strasbourg, in eastern France, Rennes, Rouen and Lille in the northwest and Nice, Toulouse and Avignon in the south. In the Paris region, two nurseries, one in Yvelines and another in Bretigny-sur-Orge, were set on fire on Friday night along with a school in Seine-et-Marne.
In Meaux, a town east of the capital, youths threw Molotov cocktails at paramedics, whose patient was taken to hospital under police escort.
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“Without question what is taking place bears all the hallmarks of being co-ordinated,” Yves Bot, the Paris public prosecutor, said yesterday. “The way things are organised is in response to a strategy, with mobile tactics employed by youths who turn up on scooters, throw a lighted bottle at a vehicle and then leave.”
France has often tried to ignore the malaise in what police call “sensitive districts” or, collectively, “the zone”, a world far removed from the picturesque French tourist trail of restaurants, wine and historic monuments.
In these underprivileged pockets the burning of cars on a Saturday night is for many young men a popular sport and rite of passage that seldom makes news. According to one recent estimate, about 30 cars are set on fire every Saturday night in suburbs across France.
The sheer scale of last week’s clashes, however, made them difficult to ignore, particularly with the government acknowledging that it might deploy troops to prevent gangs from marauding through the affluent heart of Paris, a chilling prospect for a city that has come to regard its burgeoning immigrant community on the other side of the ring road as the barbarians at the gate.
Originally posted by Souljah
Would YOU like to be called Scum or Vermin?
Originally posted by Souljah
And I already know what the Majority of YOU is going to say right now:
"That's because they ARE!"
At times like this, think about, how would you react if was in their position.
Stop for a Second and Think.
Originally posted by Souljah
You think MORE Violence is going to stop this?
Wrong - Violence never solves anything.
Originally posted by Souljah
But hey - it's much easier to just critisize these Youths and laugh at France - the country, that did not want to Invade Iraq is Burning Today.
European terror suspects got al Qaeda training, sources say
By Sheila MacVicar and Henry Schuster
CNN
Thursday, February 6, 2003 Posted: 8:38 PM EST (0138 GMT)
PARIS, France (CNN) -- Two senior al Qaeda figures helped train the people now suspected of planning chemical and biological attacks in France and the United Kingdom, European intelligence and judicial sources tell CNN.
The information comes after a recent wave of arrests in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain that investigators say helped uncover several cells of Islamic terrorists who had the material to make chemical and biological weapons. And, investigators say, the terrorists were apparently ready to use them. (France, Italy, Spain)
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"They are coming from the same region, most of them are Algerian, trained [in] the same place, in some camps in Afghanistan, and at the same time in Georgia in the Pankisi Gorge. They have the same trainers," said Gilles Leclair, who coordinates anti-terrorism efforts for the French Interior Ministry.
"And it seems, if we can recognize what we found in the searches, that they wanted to start chemical attacks," Leclair told CNN.
Threat remains a year after terror attacks in Madrid
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A year has passed since Islamic fundamentalists detonated bomb-laden backpacks on four trains traveling into Madrid, killing Cordero's wife and 190 others and injuring more than 1,400.
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But these successes underscore the threat to Spain and all of Europe as law enforcement scrambles to adapt to a new form of terrorism that appears to be growing here. "The threat from al-Qaeda is the same in Europe as it was on March 11," says Franco Frattini, commissioner for security for the 25-nation European Union.
"We thought we were out of the threat, that we had no threat coming from these groups," he says. "Now, we realize this is a police problem. ... It's more than a police problem, it's a social problem; it's a clash of civilizations."
Originally posted by NuTroll
does anyone else think this is just happening because of frances last vote against EU Constitution despite Jacques Chiracs position on it? I mean this is way too coordinated for a bunch of disenfranchized youths to pull off.
France Votes against EU constitution CNN
Originally posted by AceOfBase
Now they're setting churches on fire and hitting infants with rocks!
They should burn down a mosque for every church that gets burned and burn down an Islamic school for every school that the muslim scum burn down.
Originally posted by Souljah
and forget that there is anything GOOD in Islam.
That's what France has given them.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
news.independent.co.uk...
LIBERTÉ? French Muslims banned from wearing headscarves in school.
ÉGALITÉ? France's non-whites twice as likely to be unemployed.
FRATERNITÉ? French government admits integration policies have failed.
RÉALITÉ: Riots erupt for eleventh night.
In Villetaneuse, just North of Paris, where the projects are almost entirely inhabited by immigrant-descended families, government funding cuts have closed a number of job-training institutes.
"The kids learn all the French republican values such as equality in school, and then they find in practice that it's an illusion," says Ms. Bouzar, who was recently named one of Time magazine's 50 "European Heroes" as a role model for those seeking to be good Muslims and good French citizens. "There is an enormous gap between theory and practice."
www.csmonitor.com...
An Ethiopian national died during forcible deportation. There were frequent reports of ill-treatment of foreign nationals in holding areas within airports. Complaints about race-related police ill-treatment rose, notably in Paris. Police officers were under investigation for the collective rape of sex workers. In a landmark decision, France’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, restricted the use of weapons by the national gendarmerie. Detainees continued to face lengthy provisional detention, and seriously ill detainees or convicted prisoners continued to be held in conditions that raised fears for their physical or mental integrity. Prison conditions were aggravated by serious overcrowding. There were acts of racist violence against members of Jewish and Arab communities, as well as other Muslim groups.
- Deaths during forcible deportation
- Ill-treatment in border areas
- Police ill-treatment in Paris:
In February the Correctional Court of Paris threw out charges brought in December 2002 by National Police officers against Omar Baha, a French national of Algerian origin, who had been held in extended custody on charges of “incitement to riot”, “insulting behaviour” and “resisting arrest”. Omar Baha had allegedly been ill-treated by police officers – sustaining a broken nose – during an identity check which he had witnessed and in which he had intervened. He was reportedly struck on the nose with the end of a gas canister and beaten by three officers after he reminded them of a recent public statement by the Minister of the Interior that police abuses would not be tolerated.
- Violence against foreign women
Three police officers of the 7th section of the Compagnie républicaine de sécurité (CRS), a special police unit, in Deuil-la-Barre (Val-d’Oise) were detained after being placed by the IGS under investigation for the collective rape of several women in April. One woman was reportedly abducted by officers who ordered her to accompany them to the police station because her papers were not in order, but instead took her to a parking lot near the Stade de France sports stadium where she was allegedly raped. Two other women, Albanian and Lithuanian nationals, were then allegedly raped by the same officers. One woman noted the registration number of the patrol car. It was anticipated that other officers would be drawn into the investigation.
- Ill prisoners
- Prison conditions
- Racist attacks
...just to name a few!
www.web.amnesty.org...
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
The law prohibits such practices; however, there were occasional reports that law enforcement officers used excessive force. The Inspector General of the National Police received 469 registered complaints about illegitimate police violence during the first 11 months of the year, down from 500 during the same period in 2003. There were 59 confirmed cases of police violence, compared to 65 in the previous year. Disciplinary actions against police officers who committed infractions increased compared with previous years, with 157 police officers removed from the service for impropriety as opposed to 128 in 2003 and 94 in 2002. There were 2,561 lesser punishments given for a variety of infractions, an increase compared with 2,215 recorded the previous year. The decrease in complaints and increase in disciplinary action has been attributed to an emphasis on professional ethics within the Interior Ministry.
In its annual report for 2003, the National Commission on the Conduct of Police and Security Forces cited "significant breaches" by those involved in public security and an increase in complaint of police abuse and violence. The number of cases submitted to court increased from 39 in 2002 to 70 in 2003. Law enforcement representatives blamed lack of training for young officers and increasing ratios of inexperienced officers to veteran leaders for the rising numbers.
www.state.gov...
Child rape trial opens in France
Seventeen people have gone on trial in northern France on charges of gang raping 18 children, aged three to 12, over a period of five years.
The six women and 11 men have also been charged with "rape with torture" and "rape with barbaric acts". Some of their own children were named as victims.
The alleged incidents, which have shocked France, happened in Outreau, near the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Fourteen of the defendants, aged 24 to 67, deny any involvement.
The case came to the attention of prosecutors in December 2000, when social services alerted them to the possible sexual abuse committed by an unemployed couple against their own four children, AFP news agency reported.
The children, once they had been placed in foster care, told investigators they had been fondled, raped, coerced into performing sex acts and forced to watch pornographic films.
In 2001, other members of the alleged ring, including a bailiff and his wife, a taxi driver and a priest, were placed under investigation.
Twenty people were initially arrested in connection with the alleged paedophile network.
news.bbc.co.uk...
Originally posted by Souljah
... in the Ghettos that the French Society Created.