The French riots of 2005
Paris When
It Sizzles: The intifada comes to France. The French use the euphemism "quartiers
sensibles" — sensitive neighborhoods — for the troubled, predominantly Arab and
African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at
the heart of their society.
Hell no, we
won't work. After the rampages last fall, mostly by unemployed and disaffected
Muslims — almost universally referred to as "French youths" by an international press
too afraid to reports facts that may not be considered polite — French Prime Minister
Dominuque de Villepin has proposed measures designed to encourage French companies to hire more
young workers.
Muslim Riots Break Out in Denmark As
Well. As Muslim riots spread across France, Denmark is also beginning to see its own Islamic
Intifada. In Arhus, Denmark, young Muslims were heard chanting, "This land belongs to us!"
Third
night of unrest in Belgium. Vandals set fires in Belgium for a third straight night in
what authorities called copycat violence patterned on the rioting in France.
Cars
torched at liberty's heart as Paris gripped by guerilla warfare. It is a French revolution
in rioting — a war of attrition where the enemy is almost impossible to detect and the weapon
is a Molotov cocktail. Their targets are cars, buses, schools, nurseries, gyms, warehouses and
brasseries across Paris and in other cities. Comparisons with the Gaza Strip are impossible
to avoid.
Residents
of Paris Suburbs at Gangs' Mercy. They move in packs at night, burning and wrecking. Their
anger is both blind and targeted. They torch their own neighborhoods as well as symbols of the French
state that some feel oppresses them.
French Fried Muslim
Madness. Here's the typical feed coming from liberal thought police central: "Riots
have broken out in Paris suburbs. This wave of destruction has been at the hand of North African
and Middle Eastern descent French youths who have been disenfranchised and unemployed by haughty white
French people." Yeah, if you do a little digging, I bet you'd find that, as Mark Steyn wrote, the
names of the "French youths" culpable for this anarchy are not Pierre, Patrice, Henri and Claude, but
rather Habib, Achmed and Mohamed.
The Islamist
threat in France: This is not about Muslim poverty (the Islamist terrorists who hit
London all had good jobs. Mohammed Atta, who struck us in New York, was well-born and came
from a prosperous family). It is about radical Islamist self-confidence and contempt for
the West. And, it is about Western weakness.
Facing
the facts: No one wants to admit what polls have long suggested — the
French are finally reaping what they sowed with their longstanding, loose immigration laws and
their egalitarian snobbishness. Here in the United States, Republicans are finally waking
up to the fact that we too have the makings of a serious problem from excessive immigration.
The Media
ignore one key fact about Paris rioters: they're mostly Muslims. The rioters
who have terrorized Paris for two weeks now have been called many things by the mainstream
media: poor, disaffected, disenfranchised, mostly immigrants or children of. But one
label applied to them in passing, if at all, is one that is certainly not unimportant or
irrelevant: "Muslim."
A thug by any
other name... It's unclear how [Christophe] Bertossi would prefer that the violent young
Muslims (invariably called "French youths" in the mainstream media) be treated. If torching cars
and destroying schools isn't criminal and terrorist behavior, nothing is.
Police Guard Paris Treasures From
Rioters. Some 3,000 police fanned out around Paris on Saturday [11/12/2005] to prevent
any attempts to attack high-profile targets such as the Eiffel Tower after a 16th straight night of unrest
and arson. … "This is not a rumor," said National Police Chief Michel Gaudin. The famed
Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysees avenue were among potential targets, he said.
In the following story, Lucianne pointed
out that the word "Muslim" first appears at the end of paragraph seven.
Police,
Rioting Youths Clash in Central Lyon. Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked
sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night [11/12/2005] in the first clash between rioters and
police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports.
Vive la Difference!
Francophiles may unclench. After weeks of national unrest, Jacques Chirac finally got tough
on the car-broilers: He proposed job training for 50,000 of the unemployed malcontents. That'll
teach 'em. Of course, job training is one thing; actual jobs are another.
French riots: 126
cops hurt. France's national police service said on Wednesday [11/16/2005] that 126
officers had been injured since urban unrest first flared up nearly three weeks ago. It said
a total of 2,888 people had been arrested since the violence started on October 27, and 8,973 vehicles
had been destroyed by arson.
Riots in the welfare
state. France is a welfare state. The government controls the economy. Unions
rule. Bureaucracies fight market forces so as to benefit factory workers, farmers, and civil
servants. Wages are high, vacations are long, and benefits are generous. That means
French businesses cannot afford to hire people who need jobs.
Leftist hate for
America: In the past, Europeans were unwilling or unable to protect themselves against Nazism
and communism. Now they demonstrate an unwillingness to protect themselves against Islam hell-bent on
conquering the West. We just might have to pull Europe's chestnut out of the
fire — again.
...and 2006:
Editor's Note:
I don't want to blame the Islamic thugs in France for something that they haven't done, but I find it
hard to believe that a completely different group of people is rioting this year, and they had nothing
to do with last year's riots. I suspect it's the same young people. Still, even if the same
people are in the streets again, the current French riots appear to have little to do with Islamic
outrage and a lot to do with heavy-handed socialism, high unemployment and unfair labor laws.
The French job
funk: What American despairs that the French are having problems with their youth? Who
among us laments that the snooty French, who look down their long noses at all things American … are
paying the price for years of socialism?
France's
ghettoes boil as labour law protests spread. The youths attacked police officers and
journalists, assaulted and robbed demonstrators and set cars and stores on fire in a terrifying
reminder of the three weeks of riots that swept through France in November [2005].
Rioting for Ineptitude in France: In
France's overly-planned, overly-socialist economy, the unemployment rate has hovered around 10 percent
for decades, more than double the current rate of unemployment in the United States. For France's
younger workers, the jobless rate stands at 23 percent, the highest in Europe. In the areas most
severely hit by rioting over the past several weeks, unemployment rates are running in excess of
50 percent.
French Student Riots: Why are students
at the Sorbonne and other distinguished institutions out trashing the streets and attacking the
police? Because they want privileges in the name of rights, and are too
ignorant of economics to realize that those privileges cost them jobs.
Paris 'smashers' shift attacks from
property to people. The images are unnerving: hooded, swift-footed youths infiltrating protest
rallies in the heart of tourist Paris, smashing shop windows, setting cars on fire, beating and robbing
passers-by and throwing objects at the riot police. They are called the casseurs — the
smashers.
French
despair: People hired in France who are under 26 years old can be dismissed by their
employers within two years. For specific causes? No, for any cause. … But [the
"First Employment Contract"] says … the McDonald's hamburger stand can dismiss a (young) employee
without the need to file encyclopedic papers with various French ministries.
Chirac: 'Oui
Surrender!' True to Gallic tradition, President Jacques Chirac on Monday [4/10/2006] stared
sternly at the rioters who've spent the last two weeks ravaging France and … surrendered. Bowing
to pressure from rowdy adolescents and moss-backed unions violently opposed to proposed labor-law reform,
Chirac provided la Belle France with a regrettable lesson: Riots pay.
Update:
French Police Faulted in Youths'
Deaths. An internal police review of the 2005 electrocutions of two teenagers that triggered
weeks of rioting in poor French neighborhoods faulted police officers for their handling of the case, a
lawyer for the victims' families said Thursday [12/7/2006].
Editor's Note:
Notice that the word "Muslim" is conspicuously absent in the story above.
Islam in Prison:
Radical Islam Behind
Bars: Federal, state, county, and city prison officials have wrestled since the horror of 9/11
with the presence of radical Muslim chaplains in our country's correctional systems. To the shock of
most Americans, when they hear about it, missionaries of the ultrafundamentalist Wahhabi sect, financed by
Saudi Arabia and supporting terrorism, have a monopoly on Muslim chaplaincies behind bars.
America's Prisons: Breeding
Grounds for Muslim Converts. As controls in the US on the access of outside Imams to prisoners
have tightened, the problem of Islamist radicalization in US prisons is one that involves much more
self-radicalization. This seems to be especially the case amongst certain segments of the African-American
inmate population that has converted to Islam while in prison. It is notable that one of the more serious
Jihadist terrorist plots, uncovered in Los Angeles by local law enforcement and the FBI, involved just such individuals.
Wahhabism in the
Big House: While some Muslim advocacy groups deny that extremist indoctrination
is occurring in prisons, the evidence continues to mount. Muktar Said Ibrahim, arrested in the
attempted bombing of London's Underground on July 21, reportedly converted to Islam while
incarcerated, as did attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid before him.
Jailhouse
Blues: The New Islam Remains The Same Old Islam. Give credit to the
Council on American Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council and other members of
the American Muslim disinformation lobby for using generous donations from foreign lands
to package a sanitized version of Islam as peaceful and tolerant. But their fantasy Islam
collides with the truth about life inside those countries where the religion is dominant.
Why
Islam Attracts Criminals: What exactly is it that makes people
such as suspected "dirty bomber" Abdullah al Muhajir turn to Islamic
extremism? According to sociologists of religion and
theologians, it is the search for security and structure in their lives.
Islamist radicals in prison: How
many? The radicalization and recruitment of terrorists in US prisons present a threat of
"unknown magnitude," according to national security experts. That's prompted leading analysts to call on
Congress to set up a national commission to study the spread of radical ideologies in America's
correctional systems.
The Editor says...
There's not a lot of correction being done in the "correctional systems", and there's not much
penitence in the penitentiaries.
Ex-Convicts Plead Guilty in Plotting Attacks on
Military Sites. Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military
sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty Friday [12/14/2007] to conspiring to wage war against the United
States. Kevin James, 31, and Levar Haley Washington, 28, both pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy
charges. Authorities say James, Washington and two others were part of a California prison gang cell of
radical Muslims planning attacks in the Los Angeles area.
Spewing Poison in America's
Prisons: Not long ago, an ex-con named Umar Abdul-Jalil gave a speech in which he
said the "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," and that the "Zionists of the
media" should not be dictating "what Islam is to us." That was bad enough, but what was worse
was the fact that Jalil is the chief Islamic chaplain in the New York City Department of Corrections.
After his comments became public, he was suspended from his job. But New York's Mayor Bloomberg
refused to dismiss him, claiming that his right to free speech covered such explosive comments.
London Prison Changes Direction of Toilets in
Respect to Islamic Law. Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or
rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing
Mecca, a British newspaper reported.
Concern
Grows Over Prison Islam Converts. Recent arrests have focused attention on a potential
terrorism danger that federal officials have been warning about — that inmates in state
prison systems are particularly susceptible to radical Islamist ideology.
Primary Sources: The
U.S. prison system as a terrorist university. Despite recent cautionary examples
like Jose Padilla, who is believed to have been radicalized in prison before allegedly plotting
to detonate a dirty bomb (the shoe bomber Richard Reid is thought to have been similarly
radicalized in a British prison), the Justice Department reports that safeguards against
religious extremism in federal prisons are still remarkably lax.
The
Wrong Kind of Prison Fellowship: In August, law enforcement officials foiled a
Jihadist plot to attack a synagogue and military recruitment center in Los Angeles. What
made the plot especially disturbing wasn't only the nationality of the organizers — they
were native-born Americans of non Middle-Eastern descent — but where the plot was
hatched: inside Folsom prison.
U.S.
prisons becoming Islam battleground. While prison chaplains of various
denominations argue that Islam offers a spiritual path to rehabilitation, others say
it has the potential to turn felons into terrorists. The FBI calls prisons "fertile
ground for extremists."
Muslim
inmate wins court fight. A federal judge has ordered prison officials to allow
a Muslim inmate to be fed an appropriate diet and to wear a headpiece consistent with
Islamic teachings.
Criminals
Recruited for "Islamic Army" in America: Islam is gaining an impressive
number of American converts in prisons, almost all African-Americans, but political
correctness has inhibited investigative reporting on the phenomenon. Less
than 12 percent of American Muslims are of Arab descent. Native-born
African-Americans account for roughly 42 percent, and immigrants from south
Asia 24 percent. The others came to the U.S. from more
than 100 countries.
Nation of Islam Subsection
Nation of Islam (Definition): A sect of Islam
originating in America composed of black Americans. Followers, sometimes called Black Muslims, believe
that Allah (God) appeared in 1930 to the last great prophet Elijah Muhammad, in the person of Wallace D.
Fard. Elijah Muhammad borrowed many beliefs from traditional Islam but introduced important
differences. Most notable was the focus on black oppression and equating Satan and evil with
the white race.
Brief
biography of Louis Farrakhan. The Muslim Cult of Islam (now called the
Nation of Islam) originated July 4, 1930. In 1933, Elijah Poole … changed his name
to Elijah Muhammad and moved the sect to Michigan and then to Chicago. Louis Eugene
Wolcott … changed his name to "Louis X" according to Black Muslim tradition, and
later to Louis Farrakhan.
Louis Farrakhan
In His Own Words: "A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgement
of God has been rendered and she must be destroyed…" [Harlem, NY, 8/9/1997]
Farrakhan Blames Religious Divisions for
World's Conflicts in Final Speech. Nation founder Wallace D. Fard attracted black Detroiters on
the margins of society with a message of self-improvement and separation from whites, who he said were
inherently evil because of their enslavement of blacks. The Nation of Islam, which promotes black
empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of
longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam.
Farrakhan
says Democracy is the "Rule of the Devil". Nation of Islam leader
Minister Louis Farrakhan has told his followers that President Bush's efforts to
bring democracy to the Middle East represent "the rule of the devil."
Some Key Nation of
Islam Dates: The Nation of Islam formed in the early 20th century as a separatist movement
to help blacks overcome racism and poverty. But it wasn't until 1978 that Imam W.D. Mohammed
proclaimed that whites are fully human.
Another
Failed 'Farrakhan Test'. Whether Obama passed or failed the Farrakhan test might depend on where you stand on
Obama's candidacy. But the exchange regarding the controversial Nation of Islam leader probably did Hillary Clinton
some good, given Farrakhan's radioactivity in many parts of the country. Which raises the question: Where was
Hillary Clinton when her husband, former president Bill Clinton, made nice with Louis Farrakhan?
Wake up
and smell the thuggery. The Nation of Islam thugs carried themselves like true believers given to
hard work, self-respect and a community awareness of bettering the lives of those in black Philadelphia.
But behind the clean-shaven masks, the dark suits and the bow ties, they were selling drugs, extorting money
from businesses and either brutally beating or killing people, including a family in Washington that was
victimized to the tune of two murdered adults and five drowned children.
Louis Farrakhan Is Not a Muslim. Farrakhan
subscribes to an American black religion founded in Detroit 50 years ago. His faith is not recognized
as Islamic by real Muslims, and his teachings bear almost no resemblance to those of Islam. Farrakhan is
as much a Muslim as the Shriner is an Arab. Farrakhan leads a group formally known as the "Nation of
Islam," commonly called the Black Muslims.
Louis Farrakhan Rips 'Wicked Jews'
in Hollywood. It's been nearly a month since Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahan blamed
"Zionists and neo-cons" for "manipulating" President Bush into invading Iraq – before blasting
"wicked Jews" in Hollywood for promoting "lesbianism [and] homosexuality." Yet, outside of a few
newspapers in Chicago, the same press that showers positive coverage on Farrakhan's Million Man marches
has yet to get around to covering his Feb. 26 Saviours Day speech.
"Islamic Americans" vs. America: The
current leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, threatened some years ago to "lead an army
of black men and women to Washington, D.C., and we will sit down with the president, whoever he may
be, and will negotiate for a separate state or territory of our own." On a 1996 visit to
the virulently anti-American regime in Teheran, Farrakhan declared that "God will destroy America
at the hands of Muslims."
Farrakhan
in Cuba calls for "regime change" in US. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called
for "regime change" in the United States on Monday and denounced "wicked" U.S. policies for turning the
world against America. "We need a new government, we need regime change in America," he said at
the end of a visit to Communist Cuba.
A much more thorough history of the Nation of Islam,
Part One,
Part Two.
Do blacks
believe levee was blown? Was the levee break that precipitated the flooding
of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina the result of some government conspiracy against
blacks? … Last week, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sparked controversy by
spreading racist conspiracy theories. "I heard from a very reliable source who
saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach," Farrakhan said. "It may have
been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."
Editor's Note:
This may be the first time since 9/11/2001 that Louis Farrakhan has been quoted in
the news media. He has kept an extremely low profile since people of
his "religion of peace" unloaded on America four years ago.
Black
Muslim leader Farrakhan discloses illness. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, 73, has
suffered new health problems relating to earlier diagnosed prostate cancer and has canceled all engagements,
he said in a letter published on the Web site of his church.
The Editor says...
Mr. Farrakhan should spend his last remaining energy denouncing Muslim acts of terrorism, instead of
using it to tell everyone how sick he is.
Louis Farrakhan's
First Congressman. At this particular time in history, it is a matter of note that Congress is
about to receive its first Muslim member. ... [Keith] Ellison's Muslim faith has generated no controversy in
the campaign. On the contrary, it has served to insulate aspects of his public record from close scrutiny
in a city whose dominant news organ, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is a paragon of political correctness.
With the exception of columnist Katherine Kersten, the Star Tribune has scrupulously avoided examining Ellison's
long train of troubling associations, foremost among them his ties to the Nation of Islam.
Farrakhan ready for
major speech. The Nation of Islam returns to its roots in the city for its annual national
convention and conferences next week, and dozens of officials and clergy laid down the welcome mat
Thursday [2/15/2007] for what may be Minister Louis Farrakhan's last major address.
After a miraculous recovery...
Farrakhan:
'I'm also a Christian'. A packed house welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan to St. Sabina Catholic
Church on Friday night with a standing ovation and cheers for his health. The 74-year-old provocative
Nation of Islam leader, who has endured a series of health setbacks, didn't speak from the Quran but from the
Bible. "Even though I am a Muslim — I don't apologize for that — I'm also a
Christian," he told the crowd….
The Editor says...
Sorry, Louis, but you can't play on both sides of that fence. Islam is not just another
way to God or another path to Heaven -- it is incompatible with Christianity. If Christianity
is true and valid then Islam cannot be.
Obama's
Farrakhan Test: Maybe for [Rev. Jeremiah A.] Wright and some others, [Louis] Farrakhan
"epitomized greatness." For most Americans, though, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the
form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even
denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler — "They
helped him get the Third Reich on the road." His history is a rancid stew of lies.
Somewhat related...
Farrakhan ordered to pay couple
$350,000. The son of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will have to pay $350,000
to a Gary couple who suffered injuries when he crashed into their car, twice, while he was apparently
in a drug-induced stupor.
Farrakhan Casts a Long Shadow on the Campaign Trail.
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and icon of black antisemitism in America, is emerging once
again as a prominent factor in the political arena, causing trouble not only for Democratic presidential
frontrunner Barack Obama but also for a number of other political candidates.
Farrakhan:
Stick With Obama. The issue arose Sunday [2/24/2008], when Farrakhan praised Obama
before a large Nation of Islam gathering, even comparing him to the religion's founder, Wallace D.
Fard Muhammad, who Farrakhan claims also had a white mother and black father. "A black man
with a white mother became a savior to us," Farrakhan said Sunday. "A black man with a white
mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall." The Obama campaign moved
quickly to distance itself from Farrakhan.
Obama's
Truthiness About Farrakhan: The question was about Farrakhan as a package deal. Did
Obama accept his support? Did Obama reject his support? So far, no answer. And this was
incredible. Before a national audience, Obama, whose very candidacy has come to symbolize a promise of
"post-racial" "unity" in America, failed to reject the support of arguably the most racist and divisive
figure in America.
Update:
Rev.
Wright's Teachers: It turns out that a number of Jeremiah Wright's incendiary and racist
comments are not new, and are traceable to leaders of the Black Muslim Movement. As it turns out,
Wright's radical ranting is an echo. A glance back at history reveals an eerie connection between black
separatists, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and Barack Obama's pastor. Although both NOI and Wright excel at
racist and anti-American rhetoric, it now appears that they read from the same hymnal.
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