From http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/

Ok, the French media....

(http://info.france2.fr/violences-banlieues/15475641-fr.php )

.....is no longer reporting the number of cars burnt ‘cause statistics might just inflame those wacky “youths” into more violence…..lucky for us the US media would never mindlessly report numbers that might incite violence!

And the first political leader to blame the US is Vladimir Jirinovski
(http://fr.news.yahoo.com/07112005/202/violences-urbaines-en-france-la-faute-la-cia-selon-jirinovski.html )

‘cause the mean ol’ USA wants to weaken all of Europe!

You all may have seen this before, but here is a good article about the french ghettos, written back in 2002:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html

If this really turns into another intifada, I don't expect the french to exercise the same restraint the Israelis have shown all these years. I wish Europe were capable of a sane middle ground. They seem to oscillate between extreme neo-marxist progressivism and nationalistic racism. For all their talk of nuance, it's exactly what they're lacking.

"France is our enemy number one, the enemy of our religion, the enemy of our community,"

What this really means is "France is weak, we can take her".

Après moi, le deluge.

What you have failed to note is that the insurgency is limited to urban areas and the violence is restricted to a few provinces. Why don't you report any of the good news from France? What about all the new schools, sewers, water treatment plants, and power stations being built? What about re-enlistment numbers among the French police and fire brigades? Democritization is a process not an event.

After the next elections we'll get the political process going. That's the way out. That and training young muslims to police themselves and extinguish the fires they set in random cars and shops. All you conservatives are the same. Always negative.

Being French, you would expect them to have an exit strategy by now.

"enemy number one"

There's a new "great satan" now?

This is outstanding - the USA has won the Great Satan cup for a couple of decades in a row now. Its high time another country came along and mounted a credible challenge. I was beginning to think we were cheating or buying the judges.

France probibly thought that by staying out of the war they would,nt face the radicals how wrong they were