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Stonewall
France Prepares 50,000 Riot Police for Muslim Attacks

EXCLUSIVE TO PJM

By Paul Belien from Brussels Journal

As America prepares for Halloween, France is girding for a wave of attacks from Muslim youths—a reprise of the deadly French riots of last year.

A leaked French intelligence report warns that during the first week of November, a school holiday (Nov. 1 or All Saint’s Day), Muslim riots could convulse the country.

On Monday, Le Figaro, the leading center-right newspaper in the country, quoted a confidential report written by the Renseignements Généraux (RG), the French equivalent of the FBI. The 17-page RG report, dated 11 October, states that the root causes of last year’s riots are still in place. The authorities are especially concerned with All Saints Day when “many urban youths are left to their own and have more time to cause unrest.”

Not that France has been a peace since last year’s riots. In the past few weeks alone, several policemen were ambushed by youths who seemed intent on killing them. In response, the French Interior Ministry asked the police to keep a low profile and not to show themselves in the Muslim suburbs in order to avoid tension.

Since appeasement alone is not a strategy. French authorities are keeping a force of some 50,000 riot police in permanent stand-by. A ministry spokesman said it is important to find “the good balance: not overreact to the situation, but at the same time, not underestimate it either.”

A local prefect (a provincial governor) added: “In case of trouble, we will have to be able to control events for a prolonged period without running out of forces.”

Last year’s intifada lasted three weeks. It petered out when the authorities asked the media to stop devoting attention to the riots.

The situation, however, never returned to normal. Unless one considers (as some French officials seem to do) the current situation as “normal.” In the first six months of this year there were 50,000 acts of urban violence by Muslims. On average 15 police officers, fire fighters or other public officials are attacked per day and 100 cars are set alight per night.

Gangs of immigrant vandals operate in a paramilitary fashion. A spokesman for the French police officers union, himself a policeman, has that France is in the midst of a “civil war.”

Interestingly, no public official said the union was exaggerating.

The RG report, cited by Le Figaro, however, says that there is no evidence that the gangs coordinate their attacks across different suburbs.

The latest serious incident was a pitched battle between rioters and policemen in Grande-Borne, a suburb of Paris, on Sunday afternoon after youths had torched a city bus. Shortly after 2 PM immigrant youths stopped the vehicle, ordered the driver and the passengers to get out and set it afire.

In fact, some blame the media have for reporting the bus attack, thereby, “adding to the tensions.” Blaming the messenger is about all France can do these days.

All of this is now considered to be a “normal” incident in contemporary France. It is the abnormal violence, perhaps coming on November 1 that has the French really worried.


Paul Belien is the editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Link

"Peace"... means more riot police!
DUDE-HERE
go figure....they cause trouble where ever they go ..though they don't seem to cause trouble here in America
Stonewall
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
go figure....they cause trouble where ever they go ..though they don't seem to cause trouble here in America


The D.C. Snipers were Muslim.

They have run vehicles into crowds.

It's all for "Allah".
DUDE-HERE
Quote: Originally posted by Stonewall
The D.C. Snipers were Muslim.

They have run vehicles into crowds.

It's all for "Allah".


woops i forgot..your right


they cause trouble here too

where is fattesweb to justify muslim violence
Stonewall
DUDE-HERE,

France is do-able for the Muslims. If they do nothing at all terror-wise they will still control the country by the end of this century. And the U.K. is right there with them.

In the U.S. that would be impossible. Even if they were able to gain a majority in a single State, it would do them no good considering if they tried anything funny the Feds would be treating them like Georgia during the Civil War.

But France, they are already way down that road.
NCMike06
There certainly is a Civil War going on somewhere…..but its in France. Hopefully, the Europeans will 'get it' before its too late. Appears that maybe Germany is beginning to get it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...L&type=politics


Quote: And while authorities stress that the overwhelming majority of the Muslim population opposes violence, the domestic intelligence agency Verfassungsschutz, or Guardians of the Constitution, has classified 32,000 Muslims as "Islamic radicals," including 4,000 described as "violence prone."

Manfred Murck, a top official of the agency in Hamburg, recently said that 30 of Hamburg's 100 mosques are being monitored for "suspicious activity," including the Al-Khuds mosque where Mohammed Atta and his Hamburg cell met daily before the Sept. 11 attacks. These mosques serve as meeting places for "clandestine agencies for Islamic extremist networks," Murck said



And Germany didn't send troops to Iraq….go figure. Whats the excuse gonna be for Germany??
DUDE-HERE
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
There certainly is a Civil War going on somewhere…..but its in France. Hopefully, the Europeans will 'get it' before its too late. Appears that maybe Germany is beginning to get it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...L&type=politics





And Germany didn't send troops to Iraq….go figure. Whats the excuse gonna be for Germany??



nor spain and they got hit on 311
DUDE-HERE
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FatesWebb
Quote: Originally posted by Stonewall
The D.C. Snipers were Muslim.

They have run vehicles into crowds.

It's all for "Allah".


First off you need to check out operation northwoods, where the CIA PLANNED SNIPER ATTACKS UPON DC!!! [1] Then they used the Sniper attacks in DC to break posse comitatus, officially making the USA a police state [2] [3] The DC sniper was trained by the US government in the first place. [4] Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad exploded a grenade in an Army tent during his military service in Saudi Arabia and earlier stole an M-16 rifle on a base in Germany. The 2 suspects were tied to human smuggling [5] The fact is the sniper and his neighbors claimed he worked for the FBI and CIA [6]
"These Faces Have Mind-Control Patsy" Written All over Them. Remember: the Northwoods Document on Page 9 Talks about the US Government Shooting and Bombing People and Then Framing Innocent Patsies. [1] This sniper act was the work of CIA MIND CONTROL [7]



[1] http://www.prisonplanet.com/northwoods.pdf
[2] http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/Sou...niper.pentagon/
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/n...tner=ALTAVISTA1
[4] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...y/snipersb.html
[5] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...uhammad27m.html
[6] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...niperboast.html
[7] http://www.freepressinternational.com/mc.html
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
First off you need to check out operation northwoods, where the CIA PLANNED SNIPER ATTACKS UPON DC!!! [1] Then they used the Sniper attacks in DC to break posse comitatus, officially making the USA a police state [2] [3] The DC sniper was trained by the US government in the first place. [4] Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad exploded a grenade in an Army tent during his military service in Saudi Arabia and earlier stole an M-16 rifle on a base in Germany. The 2 suspects were tied to human smuggling [5] The fact is the sniper and his neighbors claimed he worked for the FBI and CIA [6]
"These Faces Have Mind-Control Patsy" Written All over Them. Remember: the Northwoods Document on Page 9 Talks about the US Government Shooting and Bombing People and Then Framing Innocent Patsies. [1] This sniper act was the work of CIA MIND CONTROL [7]



[1] http://www.prisonplanet.com/northwoods.pdf
[2] http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/Sou...niper.pentagon/
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/n...tner=ALTAVISTA1
[4] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...y/snipersb.html
[5] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...uhammad27m.html
[6] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...niperboast.html
[7] http://www.freepressinternational.com/mc.html


FW, does your insanity EVER end?
FatesWebb
"And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much "

Mike what is your comment on the CIA planning DC SNIPER ATTACKS in OPERATION NORTHWOODS?

http://www.google.com/search?q=oper...rthwoods+sniper
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
"And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much "

Mike what is your comment on the CIA planning DC SNIPER ATTACKS in OPERATION NORTHWOODS?

http://www.google.com/search?q=oper...rthwoods+sniper


I knew it would be a waste of time but:

I clicked the link…Alex Jones, surprise surprise.


- This all relates to a 1962 document release ???? 1962??????

- The document that is linked on Jones's site, does not mention the word 'sniper'. Using that link, please point to the relavent section (s)

- If this is the best you have, and you believe this nonsense, you should be put away. Are you serious>???????
angrychink
look at your avatar

does YOUR insanity ever end?
Jackie's Career
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
FW, does your insanity EVER end?


Anytime someone starts a sentence with: "First you need to check out Operation Northwoods" you know you're in for good times. :D



FatesWebb
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
I knew it would be a waste of time but:

I clicked the link…Alex Jones, surprise surprise.


- This all relates to a 1962 document release ???? 1962??????

- The document that is linked on Jones's site, does not mention the word 'sniper'. Using that link, please point to the relavent section (s)

- If this is the best you have, and you believe this nonsense, you should be put away. Are you serious>???????


so what if it is on alex jones site, here it is on every site on earth besides alex jones site. http://www.google.com/search?q=oper...rthwoods+sniper

"On April 24, 2001 the Baltimore Sun and ABC News reported on a shocking, declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods. In Operation Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper teams. Page eight of the formerly Top Secret Pentagon plan stated that “casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.” The opening paragraph in the Baltimore Sun read “US leaders proposed in ’62 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion.”

The Northwoods Document spells out the US Government's plan to frame innocent people for the shootings and bombings that the US Government was preparing to commit. Page 9 of the Northwoods Document states that after the Government carried out shootings and bombings in Washington DC that "the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government."

SINCE REMOVED: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/D...efs_010501.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-int.htm
http://www.public-action.com/911/northwds.html

it is a declassified document from the cia, where we planned to kill civilians in an airliner and blame it on cuba.... YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT OPERATION NORTHWOODS? WHAT HOLE ARE YOU LIVING IN????
DUDE-HERE
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
"And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much "

Mike what is your comment on the CIA planning DC SNIPER ATTACKS in OPERATION NORTHWOODS?

http://www.google.com/search?q=oper...rthwoods+sniper




so the cia is involved with malvo too....wow..cia is behind everything..your insanity is funny
FatesWebb
So it is my insanity, Malvo is the one that made the claim, and his neighbor. but I am insane....

Hmmm mavlo told his neighbor BEFORE HIS ARREST that he was working for the CIA, the operation northwoods called for sniper fire on DC, and then when he is arrested he claimed that he worked for the CIA and that they used mind control on him.

All of these facts make ME insane, just for knowing them....

BIG HMMM, you know in my signature is a song called crazy... IT IS THE PERFECT REPLY TO YOU!!!!

these are the lyrics.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so **PLEASANT** about that phase
Even your emotions had an echo in so much space

And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much


Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
possibly

And I hope that you are havin' the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice


Come on now who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you
think you are, ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control

well,
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
Just like me


My heroes had the heart to live their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinkin' I wanna be like them.

Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And there's no considence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm Crazy
Maybe you're Crazy
Maybe we're Crazy
Probably!
Probably!
DUDE-HERE
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
So it is my insanity, Malvo is the one that made the claim, and his neighbor. but I am insane....

Hmmm mavlo told his neighbor BEFORE HIS ARREST that he was working for the CIA, the operation northwoods called for sniper fire on DC, and then when he is arrested he claimed that he worked for the CIA and that they used mind control on him.

All of these facts make ME insane, just for knowing them....

BIG HMMM, you know in my signature is a song called crazy... IT IS THE PERFECT REPLY TO YOU!!!!

these are the lyrics.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so **PLEASANT** about that phase
Even your emotions had an echo in so much space

And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much


Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
possibly

And I hope that you are havin' the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice


Come on now who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you
think you are, ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control

well,
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
Just like me


My heroes had the heart to live their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinkin' I wanna be like them.

Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And there's no considence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm Crazy
Maybe you're Crazy
Maybe we're Crazy
Probably!
Probably!



well if malvo said it than it must be true ....your funny as shit...you would believe anyone who will makethis admin look bad or look crooked
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
so what if it is on alex jones site, here it is on every site on earth besides alex jones site. http://www.google.com/search?q=oper...rthwoods+sniper

"On April 24, 2001 the Baltimore Sun and ABC News reported on a shocking, declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods. In Operation Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper teams. Page eight of the formerly Top Secret Pentagon plan stated that “casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.” The opening paragraph in the Baltimore Sun read “US leaders proposed in ’62 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion.”

The Northwoods Document spells out the US Government's plan to frame innocent people for the shootings and bombings that the US Government was preparing to commit. Page 9 of the Northwoods Document states that after the Government carried out shootings and bombings in Washington DC that "the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government."

SINCE REMOVED: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/D...efs_010501.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/
http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-int.htm
http://www.public-action.com/911/northwds.html

it is a declassified document from the cia, where we planned to kill civilians in an airliner and blame it on cuba.... YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT OPERATION NORTHWOODS? WHAT HOLE ARE YOU LIVING IN????



Your obsessing over stuff from 1962


Please crawl out of the hole YOU are living in, and join the rest of semi-normal society.
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by Jackies Career
Anytime someone starts a sentence with: "First you need to check out Operation Northwoods" you know you're in for good times. :D


:burst:

Good Point.
Monster_Zero
This must be hard for you Republican types... I mean, you hate France AND you Hate Muslims... which side do you root for? :dontknow:
DUDE-HERE
Quote: Originally posted by Monster_Zero
This must be hard for you Republican types... I mean, you hate France AND you Hate Muslims... which side do you root for? :dontknow:



i have always hated france and howard stern has always hated france ..your right i don't know who to root for ...just kidding


france shoudl stop all imigration but they are fucked it is too late in 10 years they will look like gaza
FatesWebb
Quote: Originally posted by DUDE-HERE
well if malvo said it than it must be true ....your funny as shit...you would believe anyone who will makethis admin look bad or look crooked


man, fine I mean believe what you want, I am saying it is awful obvious \

you guys act like if they do something that they just come out and tell you on FOX 4 the next day... What do you think the CIA does???

FW
FatesWebb
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
Your obsessing over stuff from 1962


Please crawl out of the hole YOU are living in, and join the rest of semi-normal society.


If they had planned this in 1962, and really when it comes down to it, it led to JFK being killed.... (he fired the top 3 at the CIA over it, and DONT SAY THE CIA DIDNT KILL HIM, EVEN Lee Harvey Oswald WAS IN THE CIA!! and he either didnt do it or didnt act alone....

so really, now what we have is BUSH SR was in the CIA AT THE TIME, EVEN IN DALLAS AT THE TIME! and then he became president... so why in the HELL can you say that if they were capable of (almost) doing it in 1962, then they cannot be capable of doing it in 2001???

your argument of 1962 is pretty lame!!

I could easily turn that around and say that they have been planning it since then, I mean really in 1962 GHWBUSH WAS IN THE CIA! DUH!!!!

FW
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
If they had planned this in 1962, and really when it comes down to it, it led to JFK being killed.... (he fired the top 3 at the CIA over it, and DONT SAY THE CIA DIDNT KILL HIM, EVEN Lee Harvey Oswald WAS IN THE CIA!! and he either didnt do it or didnt act alone....

so really, now what we have is BUSH SR was in the CIA AT THE TIME, EVEN IN DALLAS AT THE TIME! and then he became president... so why in the HELL can you say that if they were capable of (almost) doing it in 1962, then they cannot be capable of doing it in 2001???

your argument of 1962 is pretty lame!!

I could easily turn that around and say that they have been planning it since then, I mean really in 1962 GHWBUSH WAS IN THE CIA! DUH!!!!

FW


Yeah, and of course they trained Malvo to kill and gave him super secret authority, under his super duper secret mission to kill innocent DC area civilians.

It's all clear now....it all leads back to the CIA, Kennedy, and probably the Manhattan Project.
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by Monster_Zero
This must be hard for you Republican types... I mean, you hate France AND you Hate Muslims... which side do you root for? :dontknow:


Maybe they will all kill each other :) Or maybe this will wake up the rest of Europe and force them to realize that appeasement doesn't work, not fighting the Islamo facists doesn't work, trying to hide in your safe little country doesn't work. The enemy must be confronted and defeated. Its as simple as that. France is now learning the hard way.
FatesWebb
Well yeah, nobody has been killed yet in France, so your blowing things WAAAAAY out of proportion as usual. However I do not say that the violence, and buring of an EMPTY bus was right... but how are they going to all kill each other, when nobody has died yet?
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
Well yeah, nobody has been killed yet in France, so your blowing things WAAAAAY out of proportion as usual. However I do not say that the violence, and buring of an EMPTY bus was right... but how are they going to all kill each other, when nobody has died yet?



Yeah WAAAAY out of proportion:

http://news.scotsman.com/internatio...m?id=1587612006

Quote: Speaking in Cergy-Pontoise, north-west of the capital, Dominique de Villepin refuted accusations that his centre-right government had failed to improve conditions in run-down areas.

He pledged "exemplary" action against the gangs of hooded youths, some brandishing guns, who terrorised residents during attacks on four buses on Wednesday night.

Michèle Alliot-Marie, the defence minister, has accused the youths involved of attempted murder.

In Bagnolet, in eastern Paris, a dozen masked youths, five of them armed, torched a bus after one held a gun to the driver's head. The driver and passengers escaped unharmed.

In Nanterre, west of the capital, hooded youths set a second bus ablaze, leaving ten passengers just enough time to escape.

"Thankfully, there was nobody disabled on board, or it could have ended badly," a police official said.

In Athis-Mons, to the south of the capital, three hooded youths ordered passengers to get out before throwing a Molotov cocktail into a bus, which briefly caught fire before the driver extinguished the flames.

A fourth bus was set ablaze in the Lyons suburb of Vénisseux, while youths hurled stones at buses, cars and police vehicles in the Paris suburb of Grigny.

Tension in the deprived suburbs of France remained high yesterday, and there are fears of a repeat of last years' violence.

Police unions have described a situation of urban guerrilla warfare after several attacks on officers in recent weeks which have left some severely injured.

A leaked report by French intelligence services warned that a repeat of last year's unrest was highly possible,as conditions in the suburbs were unchanged.


Yup...nothing to worry about here......
FatesWebb
Quote: Originally posted by NCMike06
Yeah WAAAAY out of proportion:

http://news.scotsman.com/internatio...m?id=1587612006



Yup...nothing to worry about here......


Well since you think that they could possibly kill everyone, what is the death toll? because we have soldiers dying in another part of the world, this is a damn good distraction. I am not saying what they are doing is not bad, sure it is.. but lets see here, last I heard 0 were dead (that was about 2 hours ago)
NCMike06
Quote: Originally posted by FatesWebb
Well since you think that they could possibly kill everyone, what is the death toll? because we have soldiers dying in another part of the world, this is a damn good distraction. I am not saying what they are doing is not bad, sure it is.. but lets see here, last I heard 0 were dead (that was about 2 hours ago)


It was a JOKE, DIPSHIT.......hence the :) at the end of the sentence. Of course they are not all going to kill each other.

Unclench your asshole for 5 minutes and take a deep breath.
Stonewall
Quote: Originally posted by Monster_Zero
This must be hard for you Republican types... I mean, you hate France AND you Hate Muslims... which side do you root for? :dontknow:


In the article I posted, if you go to the website and scroll down there is a comment section, someone had brought up this dilemma and posted this:

A fight between the French and the Muslims.... to paraphrase Kissinger, it's a shame they both can't lose.

:)
Stonewall
France's Permanent Intifada

New York Sun Editorial
October 27, 2006

Only days after the violence in the Paris suburbs erupted onto the world's front pages a year ago, these columns described the battles between the Muslim youths and French police, in a November 4, 2005, editorial,"Intifada in France." We wrote: "If President Chirac thought he was going to gain peace with the Muslim community in France by taking an appeasement line in the Iraq war, it certainly looks like he miscalculated. Today the streets of the French capital are looking more like Ramallah and less like the advanced, sophisticated, gay Paree image Monsieur Chirac likes to portray to the world, and the story, which is just starting to grip the world's attention, is full of ironies. One is tempted to suggest that Prime Minister Sharon send a note cautioning Monsieur Chirac about cycles of violence."

The "Intifada" label was dismissed in many quarters. On November 5, John Lichfield in Britain's Independent wrote "from the centre of the world's most beautiful city" that "despite the inflammatory rubbish written by some right-wing commentators in the French press about a ‘Paris intifada', this is not an Islamic insurrection or a political revolution of any kind." He predicted that the riots "will burn themselves out in a few days, just as they have before." The Washington Post editorialized on November 8 that "… It's not the European version of an intifada: Islamic ideology and leaders play no role in the disturbances." Bernard-Henri Levy wrote on November 9 in the Wall Street Journal that "this is not, thank heaven, a matter of an Intifada wearing French colors."

Well one year later, the riots are still going on, and the French themselves are now calling it an intifada. France's Interior Ministry reported that almost 2,500 police officers were "wounded" in the first six months of the year. Rescue workers need police escort in the Muslim dominated suburbs. The AP recently reported from Paris: "On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests were made. The recent, apparently planned ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent state of conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods."

The head of a police trade union Action Police, Michel Thooris, recently told the interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, that the situation in the slums can be described as a "permanent Intifada." Almost every day police cars are pelted by, among other objects, Molotov cocktails. Mr. Thooris told journalists that "We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists." He said that "Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar' (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned," the AP reported.

We recount this not out of any schadenfreude. But all our lives, we have thought of France in a certain way, as Charles of Gaulle once said. We would actually like to see the Fifth Republic come to its senses and see that its interests are with the rest of the Free World and that appeasement is not an answer, not in France, not in Israel, and not in Iraq. We are not with the anti-immigration movement.

One of France's faults is what we, in one of last year's editorials, called its "failure to integrate its immigrant Muslim community." It's a community that "lives in areas rampant with crime, poverty, and unemployment, much the fault of France's prized welfare system … Immigration into a country with a dirigiste economy is a recipe for trouble, which is why supporters of immigration into France have long warned of the need for liberalization."

But there has been no liberalization. The French labor market is as inflexible as ever. Unemployment still is in the double digits, and it's highest among the immigrants and minority populations. All this, as we noted, "is compounded by the image France projects of itself to its Muslims, which one can surmise is the reason why Muslims see rioting as the solution to any grievance." Monsieur Chirac didn't join the war in Iraq out of fear of his domestic Muslim population. And so, "unsurprisingly when faced with some unhappiness they believe they can pressure the French state into submission."

The way out for France is two-fold. Firstly to reform its welfare state and allow the Muslim dominated slums to integrate into French society. The second is to send a signal to the French Muslim community that France doesn't buckle under threats, that it sees itself as part of the West, allied with America, Israel, and the Free World. On a domestic level, that means employing Mayor Giuliani-style "zero-tolerance" policing in the suburbs. On a national level, France would do well to send troops to fight the Islamists in Iraq and prove themselves to be true members in the coalition in the war on terror. As it is, France is learning the profound truth of which President Bush has begun speaking in respect of Iraq — if we retreat, the enemy will follow us home.

Link

I'm not sure where the French can retreat to. Maybe they will just pull out of France.

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