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The causes of the recent rebellion by the French born youth of African and Muslim parents

by Imam Ali Siddiqui Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 5:22 PM
siddiqui@aol.com 951-734-4599 7153 Twinspur Ct., Corona Valley, CA 92880

The racism is a common place in European society. Nothing has been done to create a friendly society where immigrants can enjoy peace of mind and the benefits of growing European economy.

Still Western reporters are not reporting the causes of the recent rebellion by the French born youth of African and Muslim parents. In a planned strategy, France placed the immigrants in the so called suburbs of Paris and other major cities of France. France needed these immigrants to fuel the French industrial engine after the 2nd World War. At the same time, the leaders didn't want the immigrants to become visible in the society. Out of side out of mind!

The racism is a common place in European society. Nothing has been done to create a friendly society where immigrants can enjoy peace of mind and the benefits of growing European economy. These immigrants gave birth to a new generation. Who lack proper education, job opportunities and a equal place in the society. Mandatory education also passed these children of immigrants. The schools were not interested to teach them to become a responsible members of the society, but just to push them out of school system as fast as they can.

Immigrants in France faced lots of hardship including equal opportunity in housing, education and employment. They also face difficulty with transportation. In a land of a great public transportation system, the immigrants do not enjoy it. They can get to the centers of industry to slave themselves; however, they cannot go from one ghetto to another unless they own a personal car. This is one of the reasons behind torching of automobiles in present uprising. Every immigrant must carry legal documentations. Persons of darker skin are routinely stopped at check points to verify their papers. This was the reason that two youth were running away from the Police because the youth are not concerned to carry papers with them. No one can condone violence. French after all should understand it from their own history.

French government official including President Chirac threatening severe punishment to those who are involved in recent violence. As a leader of a great nation, he should look at the causes behind these riots and punish those who have done nothing to provide the same opportunities as a white French man and woman enjoys every day. Simulation in the French culture is not the answer. When one has invited an immigrant population of different cultures, religions and civilization. The answer does not lie in forced simulation like by banning Hijab. The answer lies in the diversity of the nation and acceptation of other people. Diversity will make France a great nation.

Poverty is becoming a way of life in France for many of these immigrants as there are no programs to training, development and helping to find jobs. Social programs have been abandoned in recent years. As you get of a train in any city or its suburb, you will find women of African and Muslim background begging. Homelessness is also visible. Men are seen begging in the mosques after prayers.

Conditions are similar in other colonial powers of the Europe. Immigrants are facing the same problems in Belgium. Now reports of rebellion are trickling down from Belgium. I just returned from Belgium from a brief visit and I can personally testify to the conditions faced by the immigrants.

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They are not Immigrants

by Anonymous Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 7:28 PM

These are third-generation youth living in ethnic areas. Their grandparents were immigrants coming over in the post-colonial era. Their parents are French. These kids are French. European nationalism and racism keeps these people categorized as "immigrants."

The immigrant generation doesn't burn things down, because they'll get deported, and at some level, they worship the empire. The second generation tends to be self-conscious and "goes along to get along" and escape poverty. The third generation finds doors to integration closed, and demand entry. They'll burn that door down.

"Burn, baby, burn."

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wipe 'em all out

by wipe 'em all out Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 7:43 PM

They're nothing but animals. Eradicate them like the disease they are, and while we're at it, eradicate all the "racist" spewing bedwetters who allow the disease to keep spreading.

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French Youth Demands

by Globalize Car burning Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 7:47 PM

Now that youth have the power and world stage they could make real demands for all of us.:



AMNESTY for all those arrested in the disturbances in last 2 weeks;

USA must join the ICC and give up its security council veto;

EU must withdraw from WTO and develop closer ties with Arab countries;

EU must formally state that the USA must withdraw from IRaq and all military bases in the region;

redirect eoconomy and budgets away from war and weapons production and BUILD INSTEAD a Europe and a region open to all and pursuing soial equity and social harmony as equals.



Liberty or Chaos

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I choose chaos against the hippies

by death to the Left! Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 7:49 PM

Liberals in America are trying to take over the White House and dictate to a sitting president who should be on his personal staff. The media follows the president to foreign soil to hound him about "Plamegate," and all the while, parts of Europe are coming unglued. The liberal media in America barely mentions it. The media carefully sidesteps the fact that the riots in France are Islam-driven. The riots in Denmark are barely mentioned. The Muslim riots will spread and demands for Muslim autonomy will be made. This is just the beginning of the war for Europe. The second phase of the Islamification of Europe has begun and all the mindless journalists care about is that "Scooter Libby" pled innocent at his first court hearing.

On the surface, it seems that the "youth" of Paris are just out raising hell and burning cars for the fun of it, but that isn't what is happening at all. The suburbs of Paris are burning and it isn't because of some bored kids. What no one seems to want to mention is the fact that is it angry Muslims who are burning the city every night. Cars are overturned and the violence is escalating. A woman on crutches exiting a bus was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. These "boys" have now moved from burning cars to burning people.

The story was reported that two Muslim boys were trying to avoid a police checkpoint and decided to hide in a high-voltage electric substation. The boys were killed when they touched something they should not have touched. The police deny that they were chasing the boys, but Muslims have used this as an excuse to tear up schools, trains, shops, and any car that dares venture near them and their "turf."

Islam seems to own the suburbs of Paris and it's unlikely it will give them back to France. It is equally unlikely that France will demand the suburbs be returned to French control. Chirac seems befuddled and unable to regain control of streets of his own country. This is just what Islam was hoping would happen.

Many French authorities seem bewildered and unable to deal with the uprising. What did they expect? When a country opens its borders and allows Muslims to pour in without demanding that they accept the local culture, riots should not have been a surprise. The vast majority of Muslims that have immigrated to European countries come with no intention of blending with the locals. They have come with a purpose and that purpose is to take over the country. Most Muslim immigrants gather together, live in poverty, are unemployed and living on the dole with nothing to do but reproduce, get angry, and be taught endlessly that Islam will make it better. Of all the countries in Europe, France has probably been the most accommodating. This is its reward.

France is witnessing a skirmish. A "feeling out" of what the French authorities will do and how this uprising will be dealt with. So far, the Muslims are winning. Some arrests have been made but it seems as though the French are just hoping the rioting Muslims will just get tired and go home. So far, that doesn't seem to be happening. The violence is spreading and along with the fire bombs, guns are being used.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin stated, "The return to calm and the restoration of order are the priority -- our absolute priority." Unfortunately, de Villepin offered no solution to the problem. What the French should do is deport each and every one of the rioters and their families back from whence they came--but they won't. That wouldn't be "politically correct." Meeting a crisis head-on just isn't the French way. The government will try to "reason" with the rioters to get in touch with their anger so that their anger can be understood. Muslims will make demands and those demands will be met. Round one: Islam wins.

The French will blame themselves for their lack of sensitivity to the Islamic way of life for the unrest. After consultations with Islamic leaders it will be decided that expecting Muslims to become French was an infringement on their rights. In the end, it will be the French that change, not the Muslims. Once again, Islam will be rewarded for violence and its cause will be advanced.

It is even worse in Arhus, Denmark. Muslim youth rioters in Arhus have openly declared war on the Danish government. The rioters chanted, "This land belongs to us!" Meeting with reporters, the spokesman told reporters that Muslims were tired of being oppressed and harassed. With their faces covered to hide their identities, they gave an ominous warning to the local police: "The police has to stay away. This is our area. We rule this place." And it seems they do.

The Danish paper, Jyllands Post, added fuel to the fire by daring to publish some editorial cartoons that involved Mohammed. Any insult to Mohammed or Islam is punishable by death. In typical Muslim fashion, mindless fury took control and their own neighborhoods were torched and fearful firefighters refused to fight the fires. So far, the only weapons the Muslims used have been firebombs and rocks, but this too will change as they realize the terror they can put in the average Danish citizen's heart. If the police and firefighters won't enter Muslim neighborhoods, the Muslims will begin to take over more neighborhoods. Soon, in the heart of Denmark, there will be something rotten--Lebanon.

Soon, there could be Muslim uprisings all over Europe. It's unlikely there will be riots in the old eastern block countries. These countries simply won't tolerate that kind of behavior and Islam knows that. One thing Islamics know how to do is pick their targets. Western Europe is weak.

Islamics do make mistakes as they did when America was attacked. After two decades of weakness, Islamics did not expect the reaction to the attack that they got. Genuinely surprised by the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, Islamics had to fall back and regroup. Now, they use our own left and the obliging media to help Islam win the war. After all, why expend money and blood on another frontal attack when American senators like Kerry, Kennedy, and Boxer will do the fighting for them? Islamics have learned how powerful the peaceniks are in America. All Islamics have to do is wait and be patient.

Time is short for many European countries. How these Muslim uprisings are dealt with will tell the tale. If the trouble makers are thrown out of the country or in prison, there is hope. If the governments scramble to accommodate Islam at the expense of their respective cultures, the war will be lost. Instead of the Nazi salute, Europe's salute will be bowing to Mecca. Is there much difference between the two?

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C&P

by and Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 7:56 PM

another plagiarization from some right wing vomit pool.

And as the right runs out of ideas it turns to the same old psychobabble.

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Leftist vomit pools

by or Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 8:10 PM

If a man didn't know better, he'd think that the terrorist fellators, the Appeasers, the cowardly Enablers of IslamoFascism, were some kind of religious fundamentalists.

Peace At Any Price, and all that.

Wipe out the peaceniks too. It's the only way.

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French Subjects

by Anonymous Tuesday, Nov. 08, 2005 at 8:10 PM

These French youth are the descendents of people who were residents in French colonies. The French made the first move, to conquer territory in Africa. Then the people there, who by then knew some French and had some connection to France, started moving to the imperial headquarters.

It wasn't like France was opening its borders to everyone. France was ripping opening that other border, into another country, first. For some 130 years, Algerians were subject to French colonial rule. They were second class citizens in their own country.

http://www.fsu.edu/~icffs/event-francealgeria.html

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