More on Intifada in France, "Muslim Mayhem in Marseille"
This entry was posted on 10/30/2006 7:14 AM and is filed under The World.
It's over two months until the Super Bowl; how about starting an office pool to see who comes closest to naming the date upon which the infamous groups the French press consistently identifies as "youths" or "
marauding teenagers" are formally recognized (by the French and the media) as predominantly "young African and Arab Muslim immigrant men" ? The primary betting pool could be supplemented with speculative wagers regarding commencement of outright ideological civil war in France and the day, month, and year that the French government and economy collapse. There is no need to be dire about all this. Some friendly betting would be both interesting and fun.
In my original post,
The Permanent Intifada in France I point to New York Sun articles stating the obvious.
Youths from "poor neighborhoods where immigrants from former French colonies in Africa live with their French-born children" are conducting a persistent, correlated campaign of violence against conventional society in France.
This simply cannot end well.
Michelle Malkin, in her October 29 blog entry,
Muslim Mayhem in Marseille, summarizes the latest outbreak, with links.
David Orland comments...
This weekend marked the one-year anniversary of what are in France simply known as "les émeutes" (the riots) but which many American commentators continue to describe as "the Muslim riots". With 4000 extra police on high alert across France, the weekend is being described as "relatively calm"
Orland, however, seems to see the rioting more as economic class warfare than the fruits of radical Islam.
"It should be interesting, in any case, to see how Anglophone blogs and news sources play the story. France has a problem but you need to be a hell of a long way from Paris (or Marseille) to imagine that its roots are anything so exotic as radical Islam. And, in a sense, that's too bad: I'd wager that epiphenomenal religious mania is easier to combat than racialized class war. "
But from a post by Steve Burton at Right Reason...
"Some conservative observers have noted a certain reluctance on the part of the mainstream media to confront - and, sometimes, even to notice - the fact that the rioters in France for the last ten days have been overwhelmingly Muslim. I have raised the issue myself in another forum, where commenters on the left have greeted my remarks with a combination of incomprehension and annoyance. What, they ask, am I getting at? Am I saying that Islam just makes people violent? Or that the media is conspiring to cover up the fact?
"This reaction has brought home to me the fact that, for many on the left and in the media, what strikes me (and, I think, many right-ish bloggers) as the single biggest story of the new century just isn't even on the radar screen. That "big story" could be summed up as "dysfunctional Islam," or, more precisely, "the relative failure of muslim, and especially, Arab muslim societies successfully to cope with post-modern global reality, and the resulting resentment and occasional violent outlash." [emphasis mine]
Bottom line, whether or not "radical Islam" is to blame (and if not, we are comforted to know that the universal bogeyman "society" stands ready to take the fall again), France is literally in flames. And disarray. And at the threshold of financial and societal collapse. Further, French"youths" are at the forefront of the nation's impending doom. Somehow, the majority of the French seem unaware.
