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November 8, 2005
French [Muslim] Youth Riots Continue - Media Oblivious
As I walked into the break room at work, this morning, a co-worker of mine wondered aloud what the reasons were behind the riots in France. In a carefully worded sentence, and a hushed tone, I gave him a major detail he hadn't been aware of, and that most of the major media has been avoiding. These youth that are rioting in France are Muslims, and evidence exists that shows the riots to be much more organized than they appear.
Newsday gives a little of the background story of the riots.
"The two teenagers, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore, were polite young men who liked to play soccer. Their families were of African origin, one from Mauritania, the other from Tunisia."They grew up in a sprawling public housing project in Clichy-sous-Bois, a bleak northern Paris suburb, and they died on Oct. 27 by accidental electrocution while fleeing a police identification check."
Two muslim kids flee from a police ID checkpoint, and in the process of their flight, are accidentally electrocuted. That's enough motivation to start days of riots, destroy millions of dollars in personal property, and directly or indirectly, cause additional deaths. What a pathetic excuse that is. That's almost as pathetic an excuse as Yassir Arafat's "palestinian" intifada because Ariel Sharon decided to pay a visit to the temple mount in Jerusalem.
One of the most visible weapons in the riots is the infamous "Molotov Cocktail." Now, any kid could grab a glass bottle and a rag, load up on gasoline, and make a firebomb, but police have raided apartments and found bomb factories creating these weapons for the rioters. This is a clear indication that the riots are more than simply a groundswell of dissatisfaction. Someone is fanning these flames, and ensuring that the rioters have the tools to destroy as much as they can.
If you're willing to dig a little deeper, which is easy enough to do with Google News, you can find this information for yourself. It's just too bad that we can't trust CNN or many of the other major media outlets to do this basic research, or tell the truth about it once they discover it.
That Islam was involved in these riots was a surprise to my co-worker. It shouldn't have been.
Posted by Lockjaw at November 8, 2005 10:21 AM
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No, the youths are far from being all Muslim, it's not that simple. The common factor is poverty, not religion. I think it's a shame that people are going to use this to further demonise Muslims, when the evidence is just not there.
Sure the deaths of the boys was the trigger, but the actual reasons for the riots go back further, the failure of government policies dealing with integration for example and in particular the appallingly aggressive comments made by Sarkozy.
Posted by: Becca at November 9, 2005 3:31 AM
Far too simplistic, it’s like blaming the LA riots on the organised friends of Rodney King. Unfortunately Americans have no experience of project housing, they are not the same as ghettos at all. It may be difficult for them to comprehend that they are more like a centralised, well defined and ordered ghetto and therefore more likely to house organised bomb making facilities without any deep conspiratorial backplot. Still boils down to the same thing though, poverty and fear.
Posted by: John at November 24, 2005 5:43 AM
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