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Originally posted by FlyersFan
The answer to 'what is the root of the problem' -
www.frontpagemag.com...
Muslims REFUSE to integrate into society. They WANT to be separate.
They reap what they sow.
They properly did their job. That's what is angering the rioters.
The cops did their job correctly and properly. The uncivilized
rioters just want any excuse to run amuk.
Originally posted by DeusEx
Yeah, Souljah. it's not their choice to commit criminal acts, right?
Totally out of their hands how they nearly burned that woman alive.
Burning cars and people isn't a political statement, it's a criminal act.
"Frankly I am not surprised by what is happening," says Dounia Bouzar, an expert on French-born Muslims who has worked in the mostly black and North African districts on the outskirts of Paris. "Given the way these kids live, I wonder why it doesn't happen more often."
That incident, says social worker Michèle Lereste, "crystallized the hatred" that some of the most disaffected and hopeless young men living in what the government calls "sensitive urban zones" feel toward authority.
In these 751 zones that the government has designated for special programs, unemployment stands at 19.6 percent - double the national average - and at more than 30 percent among 21- to 29- year-olds, according to official figures. Incomes are 75 percent below the average.
The ugly, often poorly maintained blocks of public housing that have become a nightly battlefield are testament to 40 years of government policy that has concentrated immigrants and their families in well-defined districts away from city centers, as housing there became more expensive.
"Working class suburbs have become ethnic ghettos," says Marc Cheb Sun, who edits "Respect," a magazine aimed mostly at young black and North African readers. "That is the origin of the problem."
"This is not just a problem for the kids in the projects. Society created these ghettos and now it has to deal with them."
Originally posted by Souljah
Agreed - but it is also a Political Statement.
And a Social Outcry.
And a Warning that something is wrong in the Social Struture and the way it Works.
Normal people do not Riot.
The people who Riot - want Change.
Originally posted by djohnsto77
Eventually France is going to have to deploy troops to quell this insurrection, then I predict this is going to spread like wildfire throughout Europe (which is probably why they haven't done that yet IMHO).
Originally posted by djohnsto77
I don't know about the UK, but other continental countries like Germany are certainly at risk of having this spread to them.
Originally posted by crustas
Tonight more than 100 cars burned some of those in the centre of Paris, and a library is burning a recycle depot and a few houses
Originally posted by Regenmacher
How Long Before Europe Falls?
Europe’s salute will be bowing to Mecca