The Fire Next Time

"[T]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps."

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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We begin with a look at the last federal election in France in which Le Pen, a neoNazi, came second in the presidential elction. What will happen next, now that the Muslims have given him and his lot the ultimate election cmpaign platform?

We'll move from that to a closer look at those who are rioting and burning crippled women on buses, the sort of activities that will push the reluctant into the waiting arms of the reactionaries and the fascists. Yes, the victims of society must have their say here. No, that would not be the average French. We leave you, dear reader, to form your own conclusions regarding what is to be done.

Monday, 22 April, 2002, 02:08 GMT 03:08 UK

Shock success for French far right

The far-right nationalist, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has won enough votes to take on Jacques Chirac to become the President of France, in the most staggering election result in European politics in years. [....]

Thousands of people took to the streets around France after the preliminary results were announced, to demonstrate against Mr Le Pen and his anti-immigration policies.

The BBC's James Coomarasamy in Paris says that although the National Front leader had been climbing in the polls, no-one expected Mr Le Pen would upset the status quo in such a dramatic way.

'Big defeat'

The final polls before the vote put the 73-year-old former paratrooper on 13% or 14%, compared with 18% for Mr Jospin.

With 97.75% of the vote counted, Interior Ministry figures showed Mr Chirac on 19.67%, Mr Le Pen on 17.02% and Mr Jospin on 16.07%.
[....]

"There is first and foremost the rejection of the people who have governed them so inefficiently... and then the hope for change."

He added: "The chances of me winning the second round don't depend on me but on the French electorate, the French people's desire to rip out the decay that is hitting our country."
[....]

'Cataclysm'
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Mr Jospin's Finance Minister, former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, called Mr Le Pen's unexpected triumph "a cataclysm of terrifying proportions".

President Chirac told his supporters that the preliminary result put in question France's future and its values of respect and tolerance.

"Today, what is at issue is our national unity, the values of the republic to which all we French are deeply attached," he said.

"At issue is the future of France, of even the idea we have of our country, of its great humanist tradition, of its universal calling," he said.

"Also at issue is our capacity to live together and respect each other."

Holocaust

The far-right leader who in 1987 described the holocaust as a "detail of history" toned down his usual anti-immigrant rhetoric in this campaign, as law and order - his other main preoccupation - came to the fore.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1942612.stm
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From Lebanon we read the following bushwah, such utter nonsense you might like to go to a Parisian cafe and blow yourself up out of sheer frustration at the stupidity of the average reporter.
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French police report 186 new arrests amid urban unrest

Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, November 07, 2005

Spreading urban unrest-- with arson attacks on vehicles, nursery schools, and other targets in France from the Mediterranean to the German border-- reached central Paris for the first time since it began ten days ago, and police on Sunday reported 186 arrests nationwide.

The unrest is forcing France to confront long-simmering anger in its suburbs, where many Arabs and Africans and their French-born children live on society's margins, struggling with high unemployment, racial discrimination and despair.

Just off the highway linking Paris and its Charles de Gaulle airport, Aulnay-sous-Bois is one of many dreary suburbs where unemployment is significantly higher than the national average of about 10 percent. In the rougher estates, it probably reaches 30-40 percent or more, feeding a widespread sense there's not much residents can do to get ahead. "Even if you have a university degree, in the end all they give you is a broom," hisses an Algerian cafe owner.

Fouzi Guendouz worries he won't get a summer job next year because he comes from this riot-hit suburb of 80,000 residents.

"It's already hard enough to get a job when you have an Arab name like mine," says the 20-year-old business student of Algerian origin. "Now my address is against me too."

Guendouz has no time for politicians who urge residents of foreign origin to make more efforts to integrate: "I was born here, I went to school here, I'm a French citizen - how much more integrated can I get? That's an insult, it's stupid."

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Sonia Imloul, who works with troubled teens in the northeastern Paris suburb worst-hit by the unrest, says youths are often trapped.

"It is very, very difficult to leave this place," she said.

"There is a stigma attached to being a resident of this place."

Many single mothers are left to fend alone, said Imloul, whose Algerian parents were divorced before her father's death. She is a single mother herself.

"Fathers do not play any role in their children's lives. The father doesn't exist at all," she said.

She said about 40 percent of families in the suburbs where she works are dysfunctional, which explains [?] the high rate of school dropouts, drug use and trafficking, petty crimes and
aggressive behavior. Police records burden youths arrested for petty crime, preventing them from building their futures.

"Those who set fire to cars and buildings are not criminals. They are young kids. What are 12-year-olds doing in the streets at midnight? Parents have no control over them," she said.

Rawa Khalil, 15, has no interest in education. "No motivation," she says simply. It is easier to become a hair stylist and marry and have children, she adds.

Defeatism hits parents, too, and some are accomplices to their children's crimes. Some mothers help their sons sell drugs, Imloul said, by hiding the drugs in their homes.

Most parents, however, are law-abiding people who fear for their children, she said.

Holding her little daughter, a young mother named Ghislaine says the protesting youths have no right to trash things, but sympathizes with their frustration.

"The police are really rough with them," she says. "If they're Arab or black, they constantly get stopped to have their ID card checked. It's no wonder they're fed up with it." - Agencies
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=19844#
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One can only guess at how fed up are the people of France with the lumpen-proletariat they've imported, and of the scum of the Earth whom they did not import but who followed the rat-lines and made there ways into France anyway, to nest, to swarm, to gnaw and wreck. We are faced with the cowards of France who must run against the Lepen-proletarians. This is a bad choice all round. Muslims, Left dhimmi fascist, White fascists, and the government of filth people. Good grief.

Confronting Reality

Some kids burn cars in the streets, and others work at making them fly. Today we have stories about how we think of our lives, the purpose of being. We have a piece on Somali pirates attacking ships off the Horn of Africa, and we have a story about a Korean boy, about the chaos of Somalia and the dedication of Koreans to educating their children. Like it or not, people make their own decisions, and if Muslims in Somalia choose to raise their children to be garbage people the Somalis aren't going to be rocket scientists. The French are caught in the middle, and it's there we'll start this post, by looking at the situation as objectively as possible, hoping that the solution to the crisis of Somali in France can turn into a Korean solution. We approach this obliquely:

Re: Politics of Confrontation.

Shiva and I have written on this often, my take coming from the U.S. and France in the late 1960s when the New Left, (the red diaper babies,) response to their parents' old-style party-based Communism was seen to be an obvious failure in the eyes of the public, i.e. the working classes, amd the New Left left the backrooms of the union halls and took to the campuses of elite Western colleges to bring forth the people's revolution. Unsurprisingly, in spite of the high rhetoric of the New Left the working classes weren't buying into Communist revolution, given that they were relatively prosperous and paying dearly for their children's educations. Young radical students though, raised in the atmosphere of combined Stalinism and affluence, felt themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to their parents, and seeing clearly that the working classes were "part of the problem" rather than part of the solution abandoned the working classes as counter-revolutionary and as reactionary, and they took to a new constituency for support and power: the barbarians and lumpen-proletariat, i.e. the Third World peasants and the street people in ghettos, abandoning the classical thrust of socialist concern, the working people.

There arose the clear division between the Left classical socialist and the Left fascist, which to this moment most of our Leftist contributors don't understand. Briefly, the New Left, not having any base in the working classes took up with barbarians, hence "philobarbarism," and, with no support from the Old Left Communists, were cut adrift from their roots.

Like today's homicide bombers, the Left fascists had little actual power but a great deal of media awareness, which they put into action in the politics of confrontation in the streets of major Western cities, rioting, battling with police, and cetera. The idea, fairly successful, was to confront the authorities with an intolerable situation that would require, in the interests of the state, that the state act in violent response against the Left and its constituents, thereby radicalizing the marginals, drawing them in and dividing them between those who supported state reaction and those who would by necessity side with the "revolutionaries" to halt genocide. To start riots in Watts would be to expose the racism inherent in the system, would show the white police beating the black rioters, and would thereby show the world just how evil the whole system is, forcing people to take sides even though they'd rather live quietly and go to work and raise their children.

This is the "politics of confrontation" that Shiva and I write about. We feel that to stir the pot and bring to the surface the clear evidence of our problems will divide the nations' people between those who will fight and those who will side with our enemies, there really being no middle ground left. We will find that there is a problem that cannot be solved by dialogue alone, and that those who do not attempt to sovle it by rational means are part of the problem.

[Before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion that I or Shiva promote terrorist vigilantism, please search here for posts, and there are many, on the legitimate rule of law in legitimate states. cf www.jihadwatch.org.]

You may turn to the review [just singing in the rain] and excerpts from Eugene Methvin, The Riot Makers, a classic look at the mind of those who followed the politics of confrontation to its limits.
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The riots in Paris continued for the tenth straight night, and as usual there is much nonsense about racism, bigotry, social alienation brought about by the evils of the system, and cetera. It's not only tiresome, it's not convincing to any but the most idiotic of ideologues and fools, of whom there are many. But the situation changes, however gradually, when the fire comes home, as it's doing in France. The question is when will the majority of French and other Westerners accept the situation for what it objectively is: a mass movement to primitivise the Western world in accord with Left dhimmi Counter-Enlightenment neo-feudalism. In other words, the Left dhimmi fascist agenda of destroying progress, the concept of linear historical movement in favor of cyclical and primitive agricultural existence based on a pre-industrial economy and social structure is trying to destroy the Modern world in favor of a fascistic "Return to Nature." Media-smart Leftists and sophist philosophers of Left dhimmi fascism use the primitives as proxies to destroy the industrial and technological West in the hopes of destroying capitalism and its progress toward individuality and privacy. It's not different now from the 1960s politics of confrontation; but it is we, older and wiser, and on to the tricks of fascism who can turn this table around at long last and sling our future even further into progressive Modernism if only we will.

So, let us compare the futures of our possible worlds. First we can look at the vison presented by the Left dhimmi fascists, and from there we'll look at the future Korea presents. Regarding the politics of confrontation, we leave that to the reader to consider in the privacy of his/ her own mind.
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Pirates may have also attacked UN ship

CTV.ca News Staff

A group of pirates that attacked a luxury cruise liner were likely responsible for seizing a UN vessel in June, a Kenyan official said Sunday.

The Seabourn Spirit was 160 kilometres off Somalia when two speedboats closed in on the vessel and opened fire with machine-guns and a rocket-propelled grenade.

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Rogers said the captain evaded the pirates by increasing speed and charging their two boats. The pirates then "scurried away," he said.

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Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program, told The Associated Press that the pirates are likely responsible for hijacking a UN-chartered vessel on June 27.

The crew was held hostage for 100 days, until the ship ran out of fuel. It was on a humanitarian mission to Somalia, carrying food aid.

Mwangura told AP the pirates likely belong to a group that operates along Somalia's 3,025 kilometre coastline.

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The Somali coast is known to be infested with pirates, who are becoming more and more brazen.

According to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), at least 23 hijackings and attempted seizures have been recorded off Somalia's coastline since mid-March.

Two days ago, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that such activity had hampered delivery of relief supplies to more than 500,000 people in the region.

Due to its impact on tourism, the Seafarers' Assistance Programme (SAP) is planning to convene Monday to discuss this latest attack -- the first on a cruise ship off the Somalia coast.

Somalia has been without a functioning government since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Said Barre, and is now overrun by warlords.

http://www.ctv.ca
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Song Yoo-geun, 8, wants to build flying cars, defying Newton's law of gravity, and the physics genius which has made him Korea's youngest university student may very well drive him to that dream.

Amid scholastic achievements that have confounded experts, the public spotlight is squarely on the child prodigy and his parents, both 46 and both former teachers. What has made Yoo-geun - born late November 1997 and actually just shy of 8 years old - so special?

His parents differ from the vast majority of Korean parents who show a passion approaching zeal for their children's education.

"No fixed daily routines for our boy," said Yoo-geun's parents. "Yoo-geun has a monthly schedule only. Rather than being confined by a rigid timetable, Yoo-geun has the freedom to explore every field he wants to."

While other children his age are first graders at elementary school, he is a freshman at the Physics Department of Inha University in Incheon, west of Seoul.

Song Yoo-geun

He set a record by completing elementary, junior-high and high school curricula in just nine months - a progression that normally takes Koreans 12 years - before being admitted to university.

With no school record to rely on for screening Yoo-geun's qualifications, the university tested him through an interview in October. He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.

Experts say the equation, proposed by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schroedinger in 1925, plays a role analogous to Newton's second law in classical mechanics.

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The interview was conducted mainly with the senior Song since Yoo-geun is lacking in his ability to communicate with adults.

"I think it's good to let my son do whatever he wants," the father said. According to him, when Yoo-geun is engrossed in solving math problems or doing games, he often concentrates on them for up to 14 or 15 hours. "He likes to reach conclusions, even it takes a long time."

He said his son wants his to undertake research at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory near Geneva.

Yoo-geun's dream is to make flying cars, based on the superstring theory - an attempt by science to explain all particles and forces of nature by representing them as vibrations of tiny strings.

"It goes against Newton's law. Everything on earth gets drawn to the surface by gravity, but in the case of flying cars, it's different," Song said. "There should exist the same opposite magnitude of power as the earth's gravity-pull. So, a balance is formed between gravity and reaction, which makes flying cars float in the atmosphere," he explained.

"To study more on flying cars and the super-string theory, Yoo-geun wants to join CERN," the father said.

Yoo-geun first made headlines in March last year when he received a certificate for information-processing, normally given to professional engineers in their 20s or 30s. A KBS-TV program introduced his extraordinary talent in physics last November.

In March this year, he went to an elementary school but after a few days said he didn't feel suited to the school system. He took a test to obtain a diploma certifying graduation from elementary school, and passed it.

But the Song family became embroiled in legal disputes with the school authorities after they refused to approve the exam result and issue a diploma.

In April, the Song family won the case. Afterwards, on April 5, Yoo-geun passed the middle school-level entrance exam, followed on Aug. 3 by the high school-level entrance exam. In October he was admitted to the Physics Department of Inha University.

Then Science and Technology Minister Oh Myung labeled Yoo-geun as "the first prodigy in science" and promised to offer him scholarships for five years. Oh said the government will provide support for him to be able to experiment at state-run research institutes and study at universities abroad.

Yoo-geun's father is basically against prodigy schools because, he says, their institutional methods prevent children from growing creatively. Plus, he added, it's absurd to produce the same number of gifted students every year.

Nationwide there are currently 23 such schools, which accept a set number of students. What about other gifted students who, unfortunately, weren't allowed to enter? The standards to determine genius become unclear, the senior Song said.

Asked if media attention is burdensome, he said "proper attention" is desirable because proper media attention can enable encouragement to be passed on. Furthermore, it will generate more interest in physics, an area which is declining but fundamental to advancing science.

Song also said he hopes media attention can help Yoo-geun become the Park Se-ri of physics. By winning many LPGA golf championships, Park became a model for young, aspiring golfers. After Park, plenty of female Korean golfers such as Kim Mi-hyun and Grace Park and Michelle Wie have figured prominently on the women's golf circuit.

"Public attention on Yoo-geun shouldn't stop here. I'd like to see more kids go along the same path, shoulder to shoulder with Yoo-geun," said Song.

[....]

"I believe, above all, the first priority in education is to make every child happy, said Song.

"The single most important thing in education is to find a favorable, encouraging environment for a kid - in other words, let him be," he concluded.

(siyoungh@heralm.com)

By Hwang Si-young

www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/11/05/200511050024.asp
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Mr. Song has not only the right idea, letting children be, but also the kind of child one can let be. Muslims, grinding their children into the muck of Islam also let them be: feral. In Korea a gifted child has numerous schools to apply to, and if there's a shortage one must assume there will be spaces available for them at other schools abroad. Those children are wanted-- desperately. The desperate, we don't want them and we can't seem to get rid of them. Kids who make cars fly, and kids who make car bombs. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who we want and who we want to rid ourselves of.

How do we confront the issue of Muslim rioters who school themselves in jihad? We leave it for smart people to figure that out.

The Lion of the North

Leave it to the most sanctimonious navel-gazers in the universe to "discover" a whole new attitude all by themselves, officially announced through the Toronto Star, Canada's most influential city newspaper . Rather than apologize for 40 years of outright and aggressive stupidity, they come up with self-congratulations. Well, maybe they'll occupy themselves with that while the rest of the world gets on with the rest of the world. Canadians, according to the think piece below, have examined themselves and have come up with the idea that maybe they were off the beam just a tad in their loony anti-American hysteria. But no! That's too much.

We bring this article to the public's attention not because we're impressed by the new found sense of [a] Canadian but to show that even a Canadian can finally catch the wave of current thought. This is an example of what an insensitive person would deem a negative lesson. Yes, even moron culture like Canada's can sort of figure out the obvious if given enough time and enough others doing the right thing as an example of what to imitate. This is an example of how even the most idiot of nations can do the right thing. So, perhaps there's hope for Sweden, Canada's idiot twin-sister nation.

For fun we highlighted some of the most glaring of passive and frightened phrases. In Canadian terms this is some kind of revolutionary tract below. If you're a Canadian, drink two cans of beer and take a valium. This will be strong stuff for you.
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Canadians moving into tough-love mode
RICHARD GWYN

Evidence is beginning to accumulate that Canadians are going through one of those mysterious attitudinal changes that take place from time to time in all societies. The mood of Canadians seems to be increasingly that of tough love, rather than the far more self-critical attitude that prevailed until very recently.

The shift in the media's response to the contaminated water crisis in the northern Ontario Indian reserve of Kashechewan is a good illustration of the shift. At first, the story was reported exclusively in the conventional media terms of politico-bureaucratic bungling and arrogance and of the victimization yet again of native people.

Soon, second thoughts began to be expressed. "Fixing the water is easy; Asking tough questions is harder," was the title of a column by the Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson.

Simpson — and other mainstream commentators — have begun asking tough-love questions about the viability of small, isolated Indian reserves where there are no jobs and where there is so much boredom, drugs and alcohol.

At issue here is the entire foundation of Canada's policy on native peoples. Is it really credible and feasible for these tiny, isolated reserves to operate as "self-governing" units? And, if not, what alternative is there in the end but to encourage native people to integrate into the majority culture? That is an exceedingly painful question. But it appears people are beginning to steel themselves to pose it without being deterred from doing so by the predictable cries of "racism" and "cultural genocide."

A similar shift, totally different in its subject matter and yet similar in its context, appears to be taking place in the public's attitude toward the military. For some time, Canada has exhibited many of the characteristics of a pacifist society. That a clear majority opposed going into Iraq is understandable. But large numbers of Canadians opposed any involvement in any war, from the Gulf War to Kosovo. We were, seemed to be the assumption, only peacemakers, never war makers.

But recently, two senior generals have said the unsayable about war. Last July, speaking at a press briefing prior to the departure of a large (2,000-strong) Canadian contingent to Afghanistan, the new Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier, said the Canadians were going there to "kill ... the scumbags who detest our freedom." In August, Maj.-Gen. Andrew Leslie said of the same mission, "There are things worth dying for. There are things worth killing for.

There were protests. But conspicuously few.

The anti-military mood, which made it so easy for governments to slash defence spending, appears to be ebbing away. We're not going to become a militarist nation. But we seem to be in the mood again to accept that a nation-state has to have a real military.

The same tough-love attitude seems to be expressing itself on some multiculturalism issues. There was overwhelming public support in Ontario for Premier Dalton McGuinty's controversial reversal of his plan to extend official recognition to Islamic sharia law.

A similar tone seems to have taken hold in respect of Quebec's possible separation. The public attitude now appears to be not indifference, but cool and laid-back. It's hard to see ahead either panic or support for some frantic last-minute offer, although attitudes may change abruptly if and when a crisis actually occurs.

Why the change, assuming there's some accuracy to my reading of it? Canadians these days are extraordinarily confident about the country and themselves. Those who've come to believe they've done a fair number of things right aren't likely to forever blame themselves — as used to be quintessentially Canadian — for everything and anything that goes wrong among them.
Canadians moving into tough-love mode
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One must laugh at the timidity of the phrasing in the piece above. Ever nervous of making a clear and unequivocable statement, the writer above hedged each statement with Canadian jitters. Oh well. Maybe it's a step forward into the adult world for this lot, though we should really expect a lot of two stepping and sobbing before they actually make any move to join the real world. If the Swedes don't get it-- let's invade them.

We'll know the Canadian worm has turned when the Toronto Star prints anything from this blog. In the meantime, riots continued today in France for the nineth straight day as peace talks dragged on without a break, while the demands for land for peace were echoing against the walls being built around the inner cities to keep out terrorist attackers. U.N peacekeepers are still not allowed to fire their weapons....

Muslim Woman Beaters Cry Foul

When will the Western population, generally, get a clue? Islam is a sickening political ideology. It's adherents are fascists. Those who tolerate it are repugnant. Here's more on Islam and the filthy crap that passes for religion.

From Jihadwatch and Fjordman we present a piece from Copenhagen Post:

Egypt discontinues dialogue with Denmark on human rights and discrimination because of cartoon dispute

A Danish newspaper's decision to print cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed have caused a diplomatic crisis between Denmark and Egypt, national broadcaster DR reported on Thursday.

Egypt's ambassador in Libanon, Hussein Darrar, told news service AFP that Egypt had decided not to continue its dialogue with Denmark on human rights and discrimination.

The Egyptian ambassador in Denmark requested, along with ten other ambassadors of Muslim states, to meet with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten's decision to print twelve caricatures of the prophet, an act considered blasphemous by many Muslims.

Rasmussen refused to meet with the ambassdors, saying that if they thought he had any power to influence what a national newspaper did and printed, the essence of Danish democracy had been lost on them.

Egyptian Embassy Councillor Mohab Nasr Mostafa Mahdy said he had not seen for himself what Darrar told reporters, but that he was certain it was based on the information Darrar had received on the matter.

'The Egyptian ambassador in Denmark has said that the case no longer rests with the embassy. It is now being treated at an international level. As far as I have been informed by my government, the cartoon case has already been placed on the agenda for the Islamic Conference Organisation's extraordinary summit in the beginning of December,' Mahdy said.
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/91979.html
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Some things aren't funny, and it's not a good thing to pretend we should live with it. Muslims don't like cartoons of their killer rapist prophet? We don't care. Screw 'em.

Danish Cartoons Upset Mo-Hams

An Islamic ambassador (pictured left) lead a group to the offices of the Danish prime minister to protest cartoons in a Danish newspaper. What we don't read in this article following is that the ambassadors stopped on the way at the public trough to collect their fair share of welfare payments from the local Muslims who took time out from rioting to pork over the dough. Then, as per usual, the ambassadors carried on in their piggy little ways:
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Muslims march over cartoons of the Prophet

By Kate Connolly in Berlin
(Filed: 04/11/2005)

A Danish experiment in testing "the limits of freedom of speech" has backfired - or succeeded spectacularly - after newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed provoked an outcry.

Thousands of Muslims have taken to the streets in protest at the caricatures, the newspaper that published them has received death threats and two of its cartoonists have been forced into hiding.

	Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the cartoons a 'necessary provocation'

Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's leading daily, defied Islam's ban on images of the Prophet by printing cartoons by 12 different artists.

In one he is depicted as a sabre-wielding terrorist accompanied by women in burqas, in another his turban appears to be a bomb and in a third he is portrayed as a schoolboy by a blackboard.

The ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries called on Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the prime minister, to take "necessary steps" against the "defamation of Islam".

But Mr Rasmussen, the head of a centre-Right minority coalition dependent for its survival on support from an anti-foreigner party, called the cartoons a "necessary provocation" and refused to act.

"I will never accept that respect for a religious stance leads to the curtailment of criticism, humour and satire in the press," he said.

The Danish debate over how to integrate Muslims has raged for years, with nursery school menus and women-only opening hours for swimming pools particular battlegrounds. But the cartoons satirising the Prophet have injected a dangerous new element into the controversy.

"This is a pubescent demonstration of freedom of expression that consciously and totally without reason has trampled over the feelings of many people," said Uffe Ellemann Jensen, a former foreign minister and member of Mr Rasmussen's party.

Carsten Juste, the editor of Jyllands-Posten, spurned demands that he apologise, saying he "would not dream" of saying sorry.

"To demand that we take religious feelings into consideration is irreconcilable with western democracy and freedom of expression," he said. "This doesn't mean that we want to insult any Muslims."

Juste commissioned the cartoons after learning of the difficulties a children's writer, Kare Bluitgen, had in finding an illustrator for his book on the Koran and the Prophet's life. Bluitgen said all the artists he approached feared the wrath of Muslims if they drew images of Mohammed.

Many cited the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by an Islamist as a reason for refusal.

Juste said he wanted to counter growing "self censorship" and see how many cartoonists would be "bold enough" to draw the Prophet.

One artist, Franz Füchsel, said he intended no offence. "But I live in 2005, not 905 and I use my quill in the way that Danish law allows me."

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch MP famous for her criticism of Islam and author of the screenplay for Mr Van Gogh's film Submission, supported the paper. "It's necessary to taunt Muslims on their relationship with Mohammed," she said.

"Otherwise we will never have the dialogue we need to establish with Muslims on the most central question: 'Do you really feel that every Muslim in 2005 should follow the way of life the Prophet had 1,400 years ago, as the Koran dictates?' "

kate.connolly@telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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If you missed the story on Muslims rioting in Denmark, scroll down. Yes, they protest over newspapers running cartoons of their child molesting prophet, and then they riot on the welfare cash the Danes give them. Below this you'll see how the Brits treat these Muslim piggies.

Brit Coppers Dance to Muslim Tunes

A chief constable has condemned the portrayal of Muslims in a police magazine cartoon, describing it as offensive and sacrilegious.

The Police Federation magazine cartoon shows officers taking their shoes off outside a mosque, as a bearded man escapes clutching bags of explosives.

Bedfordshire's chief constable Gillian Parker has written to complain.

The magazine's editor has apologised and said there was no intention to cause offence.

The cartoon was seen by Bedfordshire Police as an attempt to mock the force's advice to officers to remove their shoes before entering Muslim properties.

Ms Parker wrote: "The stereotypical portrayal of religious communities and the use of places of worship in a sacrilegious manner are bound to offend.

"Insensitive actions only serve to make our life more difficult."

She said: "We have worked hard over an extended period of time to achieve relationships and I feel that the stereotypical portrayal of Muslims as terrorists has unnecessarily jeopardised this.

"Where it is feasible to do so we continue to consider the individual customs of all communities when we enter their homes and places of worship; I make no apology for this."

Sincere apology

Metin Enver, editor of the magazine, told the BBC: "Much of the material we publish comes from independent parties and is not necessarily the view of the Police Federation.

"However, we do apologise sincerely if the cartoon featured caused any offence to anyone.

"The idea behind it featured five different scenarios.

"It was supposed to depict how policing has changed over the years and how the police service takes account of different cultures.

"We did not intend to offend any of those groups highlighted in the cartoon."

The cartoon was published in the September edition of the magazine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4406702.stm

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When this fad ends there's going to be a backlash. It won't be funny to others though there might be some around these parts who laugh. Come on, who's stupid enough to pander forever to murderers? Not even the English will put up with this crap forever. If we don't hammer the Muslims soon the hammer will come down sooner or later anyway, and then it's going to be terrible. Wake up. This fad is beyond stupid.

Just Singing in the Rain...

We see rioting in Paris nightly, a maniacal singing in the rain, a African in Paris, and from afar it looks more interesting and more frightening than it is. Rioting is merely the gesture of thought. The gesture, even the fascist "grand gesture" we have written about here so often, pales in comparison to the thought behind the act.

What?! What's so pale about flames destroying neighbourhoods and crippled ladies trapped on burning buses in France?

Most people in the modern West look at violence as irrational and subjective, something that happens to other people, over there. It's a passive action, a thing that doesn't have a source in the real world, a craziness that happens when something is wrong, who knows what. There must be an explanation, some rational reason, some cause we could all understand if only we knew what is might be. It's probably poverty or discrimination or some fluffy cliche or other, something we can relate to if only we understand the root causes. So we see the gesture and mistake it for the essence. The poor riot? Give them money and they won't riot any more. Muslims riot? Let 's all understand Islam. Let's tip-toe around the issues and try to encourage the best behaviour we can from those we will refer to publicly as adherents of the "Religion of Peace." If we convince ourselves that it's nothing serious, then we should be able to convince the rioters too. Everything can be discussed rationally, and we can all hold hands and sing a round or two of Kumbyah.

We see the gestures, and we mistake them for the reality. We see the fires and think they are true, like the shadow figures cast up on the walls of Plato's Cave. We're deluding ourselves if we think the riots in Paris are the real problem in Paris. The truth is that the riots are only a problem for those who are hurt or impoverished. Those are few. That's the subjective. To the person involved he is the centre of the universe, but objectively he is one man or perhaps a few hundred. Important, yes, but not essential to the well-being of the community that is the French nation.

We have below two short excerpts from a magazine and a book. Both cover the notion of riots. We'll return to this topic in later posts as the occasion arises.
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Moral Holiday

In a nutshell: Riots begin when some set of social forces temporarily overwhelms or paralyzes the police, who stand by, their highly visible inaction signaling to the small percentage of teenaged embryonic psychopaths and hardened young adults that a moral holiday is under way. This criminal minority spearheads the car-burning, window-smashing, and blood-letting, mobbing such hate targets as blacks, or white merchants, or lone cops. Then the drawing effect brings out the large crowds of older men, and women and children, to share the Roman carnival of looting. Then the major killing begins: slow runners caught in burning buildings and-as civic forces mobilize-in police and National Guard gunfire.

The books are on the shelf-- let the responsible authorities in city hall and police headquarters check them out.

The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force. The cops will usually be caught flat-footed (no pun intended) by the initial outbreak. But they need to spring into a pre-arranged mobilization that should always be as ready in every major city as the fire-department or hospital disaster-response program.

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback200509011316.asp
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EUGENE H. METHVIN,The Riot Makers: The Technology of Social Demolition
ARLINGTON HOUSE: NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., 1970
Introduction

The Riot Era

In July 1964 New York's Harlem exploded into a fiery riot, and in quick succession six other cities erupted. In the next three summers 105 major urban riots in almost as many cities occurred. Then, in April 1968, in the ten days following Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination 125 cities erupted at once. Federal troops had to be sent into Washington, Baltimore and Chicago. In the Nation's Capital, smoke from flaming blocks blotted out the Capitol dome in broad daylight, and the acrid smell of burning buildings permeated the Supreme Court and halls of Congress. The U.S. Army set up machinegun nests on Capitol Hill and troops in battle dress patrolled the White House, as two blocks away stores burned and mobs looted.

The riot era had come home to America.

The plumes of smoke spread a tragic fallout across America: acrid, murky wrangling over causes, blame, guilt and remedies.

Almost every "cause" mentioned had a role. There was a universal tendency to try to weigh each cause too finely to suit ideological predispositions or preferences in policy conclusions. Certainly many historic and recent failures of government and private behavior contributed. In large measure, the "blame" could not justly be apportioned to anyone now living....
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CHAPTER I

Newark: The City Hate Wrecked

1. The Social Avalanche.

Shortly after dark on a hot July night in 1967, two white policemen in Newark, New Jersey hauled a cursing, struggling Negro prisoner from their cruiser and dragged him up the steps into the Fourth Precinct Station House. Across the street, from two towering 14-story public housing buildings, Negro residents saw the struggle. Some later swore the policemen "beat" and "stomped" their prisoner. Within minutes the rumor flitted: "He's dead, Brother—the whitey cops beat him to death!" A crowd of 1,200, mostly teenagers and young men, gathered. Soon Molotov cocktails and firebombs smashed against the police station, and two cars were set on fire. The crowd stoned firemen away. Down the street, a garbage can smashed Harry's Liquor Store window, and looters leaped through.

The Newark riot was on. It raged for four days, requiring State Police and National Guard to restore order, and left 23 dead and $15 million in property destroyed. In five other Northern New Jersey cities, violence flared simultaneously. The next weekend Detroit erupted into the worst U.S. riot in a hundred years, and like a crowning forest fire, explosions burst in 43 other American cities over the next ten days....
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CHAPTER II

Setting the Stage

1. The Causology of Riots.

By the political summer of 1968, four years after the start of the Riot Era, Americans were in a state of universal near-hysteria over "violence in the streets." In the 1967 summer mass violence racked 128 American cities, killed 83, injured uncounted thousands and disrupted millions of lives. In Washington the Justice Department put computers to work tracking known extremists from city to city. Pentagon staffers prepared elaborate counterinsurgency plans as if for a Latin American banana republic. Region by region U.S. Army troops had their assignments to nearby cities to put down violence. At Fort Gordon, Georgia, a GI "mob" in the mock city of "Riotsville, U.S.A." hurled rocks at skirmish lines of bayonet-wielding, gas-masked soldiers rehearsing for "the long hot summer" according to hastily updated manuals originally written for the strike violence of the 1870's. In central city slums tiny bands of extremists also planned—for an altogether different conflict: Viet Cong style hit-and-run urban terrorism and guerrilla warfare. They studied how to booby-trap a police callbox, decoy policemen and firemen with false alarms into murderous ambushes, sabotage high-tension wires, poison water reservoirs and manufacture incendiary timebombs. And in the suburbs Ku....

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98250585
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When we focus our attentions on the hand and dismiss the mind behind it we fall into the trap of obscurantism that will be our downfall as a civilization. We must know our enemies well, better than they know themselves, in fact, and Methvin's work, though it's dated and odd to our minds today, is still, for those with the curiousity and sensitivity for extrapolation, a wonderful textbook for study of the rioter's psychology and tactical programmes.

Forget, for the moment, the moving hand, and look to the mind behind it.

Emotional Blackmail.

Call us insensitive if you truly must, but --WTF!

To get something we have to give something. That's life. So, friend, what's the payoff for reditus nigri, or "blackmail." What guilty secret do we pay to protect ourselves for having known openly? Or, to put it bluntly, what did you do that you're afraid of the world knowing about? We are a lot of hard cases here who've done many evil things among us, no good lot here, and who cares? You want to know, so what? But what did you do? Why are you paying off Muslim blackmailers with jizya and appeasing them when they murder our fellows? What roten thing did you do to make exposure so horrible that you're willing to pay and play forever, even when it comes to losing your life? Why are you putting up with this Muslim crap? You're on your own there. We here, individuals hanging out in the middle of nowhere, we don't pay, and we don't care. Muslims don't like it? So what!
Mohammed is a child molester. He had sex with a child, an eight year old girl. Riot, then, you Muslim criminal scum. Big deal. Go die in a ditch. What's it to any of us? Let Hillary scream.

To many of our compatriots the Muslim world is the high-point of existence. Palestinians are the Most Important People in the World. We beg to differ. (Fill in the blanks as you will: Arse-H_les.)

Something's rotten in the state of Denmark, and the list goes on. We think that would be those who give in to emotional blackmail.
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EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

Threaten to make things difficult if you don't do what they want.

Constantly threaten to end the relationship if you don't give in.

Regularly ignore or discount your feelings and wants.

Tell you or imply that they will neglect, hurt themselves, or become depressed if you don't do what they want.

Shower you with approval when you give into them and take it away when you don't.

Use money as a weapon to get their own way.

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Emotional blackmail is a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten (either directly or indirectly) to punish us if we don't do what they want. At the heart of any kind of blackmail is one basic threat, which can be expressed in many different ways: If you don't behave the way I want you to, you will suffer. A criminal blackmailer might threaten to use knowledge about a person's past to ruin her reputation, or ask to be paid off in cash to hide a secret. Emotional blackmail hits closer to home. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationship with them. They know our vulnerabilities. Often they know our deepest secret. And no matter how much they care about us, when they fear they won't get their way, they use this intimate knowledge to shape the threats that give them the payoff they want: our compliance. Knowing that we want love or approval, our blackmailers threaten to withhold it or take it away altogether, or make us feel we must earn it. For example, if you pride yourself being generous and caring, the blackmailer might label you selfish or inconsiderate if you don't accede to his wishes. If you value money and security, the blackmailer might attach conditions to providing them or threaten to take them away. And if you believe the blackmailer, you could fall into a pattern of letting him control your decisions and behavior.

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/BPD/blackmail.html
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If a middle aged lady who writes self-help books for neurotic middleclass housewives can figure it out, what's wrong with the intelligent people in the Western world? We won't even bothering asking about the politicians we have. But what about you? Are you giving in to this?

OK, so we're not sensitive-new-age-guys, SNAGs. What's it to you, bud.

Read about the Riots in Denmark?

We picked this story up at http://cuanas.blogspot.com. We'll follow it with some commentary from Cornelius, posting at http://jihadwatch.org.

Ain't it peculiar? And what is to be done?
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Several days of Muslim Riots in Denmark (Not only in France)
Jyllands Posten ^ | Offentliggjort 31. oktober 2005 03:00 | Af ERIK THOMLE

Posted on 10/31/2005 11:42:54 PM PST by Eurotwit

(Danish readers may turn directly to this link: http://www.jp.dk/aar/artikel:aid=3354408/)

For several nights in a row, there has been the worst riots in Århus for many years.

"This land belongs to us", declared the young rioters. Another arson attack took place sunday night.

Sunday evening the fire department needed police escorts to get in and extinguish an arsonist fire in Søndervangs Alle.

The words of the young muslims sound like an open declaration of war against Danish society. The police must stay away. This area belongs to immigrants.

Four youngsters sit at the wall in the Rosenhøj center, sunday afternoon, self decleared spokesmen, for those groups who three nights in a row has rioted, and put business on fire.

All around the parking lot, there are swarms of cars with youngster from the immigrant community, who are celebrating the worst riots in Århus in several years.

Every night, 30 to 40 immigrant youngsters participated. Only two are under arrest.

It was a victory.

"We knew that you would come. We are the spokesmen", said one young man with his face covered.

He was angry. Very angry.

Petrol though the window.

At the back of the house was a window broken, and the fire was burning wildly, probably because of petrol that had been thrown in.

The fire engines waited for police escort so they could enter in and try to put out the fires.

Bricks from the street have been thrown and crushed windowns all up the street.

The police reports that the youngsters came to the area armed with rocks that they brought in.

Rocks against a bakery.

Saturday, a 16 year old from Somalia was jailed for comitting dangerous violence, because he attacked a bakery with large rocks. One rock barely missed the bakers face.

Raids.

"We are tired of being oppressed. We are tired of the police raiding our parents. We are tired of the police stopping our cars, and raids us in public and damages our honour.»

"We are tired of the police beating up our friends, like they did this afternoon", screams the younf man with his face covered.

He calles himself 100 percent palestinian, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon, 19 years ago, and is now unemployed in Denmark.

"The police has to stay away. This is our area. We rule this place"

And then comes the cartoons of Mohammed.

"We are angy to what has happened to our profet. We are tired of the Jyllands Post (Danish paper who published cartoons of Mohammed). I know that it wasn't you, but we are not going to take this, what the Jyllands Post has done towards the profet", he states aggressivly, and the others nod in agreement.

Planned for three weeeks.

Two of them are Turks, and it is the first time that Turks and Palestinians have joined forces, according to the spokesman.

"We have planned this for three weeks. That's why only two were arrested on Saturday. Police tried to block us in, but we now how to get out", he states and dissapears chewing on a piece of pizza that he has looted from Fun Pizza.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513137/posts?page=101,1
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Sweden is a good candidate to beat France in the 'Islamic Republic' department.

I purposefully seek out Europeans in an international chat-room I frequent in order to gain perceptions about their thinking vis-a-vis Islam.

I often come across Left-wing apologists who are incorrigible, but just as often, find Left-wingers whose hatred of Islam is exceeded only by their hatred of America. A lot of English, Spaniards and Italians fit in the latter category.

In fairness to the English and the Dutch, there are many among them who are implacable foes of Islam and support America generally (though not necessarily on Iraq).

The Germans seem to a person to be clueless. One was so pathetically obsequious I wanted to vomit as he rambled on about how Muslim laborers were needed to insure the viability of his future social security. It was the psychology of utter helplessness and dependence.

The Swedes are the strangest of the lot. Their initial comments of neutrality towards Islam shouldn't be taken at face value. It's as if they are living in a totalitarian society (perhaps they are). Only after having won their trust in the exposition of my own views do they open up about their true feelings. They despise what Muslim immigration is doing to their country and their culture, but they are absolutely resigned to it.

It is a Continent and a culture that has absolutely lost its bearings, its self-confidence, its very identity...and the American Left want us to emulate it.

Posted by: Cornelius at November 2, 2005 10:05 PM
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What do we make of this? We'll come back next time with more on our situation, whatever it might be by then.

Paris When it Sizzles

Riots continued last evening in Parisian suburbs as African Muslims for the sixth consecutive night frolicked in the streets, having fun, burning vehicles, and fighting with the police.Regardless of the moralistic cliches one might hear from the politicians and the social workers and the professional poverty pimps who feed on government grants baby-sitting the "poor" the fact is that the rioters are very likely having a wonderful time and don't really care about the evils of social injustice at all. For many it's un jour d'fete, Monsieur Abdul's Holiday.
But this too might be true: that some of the rioters are going home after a night of street fighting with their heads cracked, having seen friends knocked down, having been chased and beaten by the police; visceral lessons in aggression and resistance that one will not in a whole long life-time forget. Violence radicalizes faster than anything one will ever hear at the mosque. One good smack on the head is all it takes to radicalize a kid for life. And one good beating that never seems to end is what it takes to turn a thug into our thug. The French are radicalizing a whole generation of Islamic youths in the suburbs by beating them pitifully rather than pitilessly. It's going to come back to haunt the French. The rioters will have learned the lesson of contempt.


..... Look briefly at the lessons from Roland Barthes. What is the mythologie of the theatre of the streets these past nights? It is the significance of the signs of weakness of authority. The mythos that will build over the winter will grow so huge in the minds of the rioters that come spring, after months of germination there will be riots that will sweep France like a tidal wave. The talk, the bragging, the war stories, the lies and make-believe will turn these riots into epics that others will phantasize about in their beds at night until Spring, and then they will go out into the warm nights and re-enact the past battles as heroes in their own minds, and on it will go till there is civil war and the French will finally have to decide if they want anarchy or fascism, chaos or Sarajevo.

Below we have a brief and truncated version of last night's events in Paris. Think of your own home town,though, and of a riot taking place in a suburb across town. It'd take an hour to get there by bus, and really, how often does one go there? It's not your friends rioting, it's those people over there in that other part of town, and they're not like you and yours. In fact, a Paris suburb is more immediate to the reader than is a place across town. The story is right here right now, but across town is an hour away and you don't go there. So it is with the French. this story is less immediate to them than to you who are thousands of kilometers away and yet right there. The French will let this slide till it affects them in person, and even then they'll ignore it if it happens to a neighbour but not to them. They'll ignore it till each and every Frenchman in France feels threatened personally in his own home. The rioting will spread in the springtime. The savages will build up their myths and they'll make them real in the streets when the weather warms.

Tensions Smoulder After Riots Near Paris

POSTED: 4:52 pm EST November 2, 2005

UPDATED: 4:52 pm EST November 2, 2005

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France -- Menacing youths smoked cigarettes in doorways Wednesday and hulks of burned cars littered the tough streets of Paris' northeastern suburbs beset by a week of rioting that left residents on edge and the president appealing for a firm but respectful response by police.

Leaders at Clichy-sous-Bois' mosque prayed for peace and asked parents to keep teenagers off the streets after violence broke out last week following the accidental deaths of two youths. They were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation because they believed police were chasing them.

The unrest spread to at least nine Paris-region towns overnight Tuesday, exposing the despair, anger and criminality in France's poor suburbs _ fertile terrain for Islamic extremists, drug dealers and racketeers.

The violence, concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations, has highlighted the difficulties many European nations face with immigrant communities feeling marginalized and restive, cut off from the continent's prosperity and, for some extremists, its values, too.

"They have no work. They have nothing to do. Put yourself in their place," said Abderrahmane Bouhout, president of the Clichy-sous-Bois mosque, where a tear gas grenade exploded Sunday evening. Local youths suspected a police attack, and authorities are investigating.
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"People are joining together to say we've had enough," he said. He refused to give his surname because talking to reporters was poorly regarded in his neighborhood.
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Many immigrant families are trapped in housing projects built to accommodate foreign laborers welcomed by post-World War II France, but which have since succumbed to despair, chronic unemployment and lawlessness. In some neighborhoods, drug dealers and racketeers hold sway and experts say Islamic radicals seek to recruit disenchanted youths by telling them that France has abandoned them.

"French society is in a bad state ... increasingly unequal, increasingly segregated, and increasingly divided along ethnic and racial lines," said sociologist Manuel Boucher. Some youths turn to Islam to claim an identity that is not French, "to seize on something which gives them back their individual and collective dignity."

French governments have injected funds and job-creation schemes for years but failed to cure ills in suburbs where car-burnings and other crimes are daily facts of life.

"No matter what the politicians say, some neighborhoods are all but lost," said Patrice Ribeiro, national secretary of the Synergie police officers' union. "Police patrols pass through but without stopping and with their windows rolled up."

Claude Dilain, a Socialist and mayor of Clichy-sous-Bois, said that when youths experience social injustice every day, "it is very difficult to have them listen to reason and ask them to respect the laws."

Police said 180 vehicles were torched overnight, most of them in the Seine-Saint-Denis region that includes Clichy, Aulnay and other violence-hit neighborhoods. Police made 35 arrests in Seine-Saint-Denis.

Youths lobbed Molotov cocktails near Aulnay's town hall and threw stones at the firehouse. In nearby Bondy, a blaze engulfed a store.

Officials said police were harassed by "small, very mobile gangs."
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In Aulnay-sous-Bois, another northeastern suburb where riot police fired rubber bullets at advancing gangs of youths Tuesday night, workers cleaned up charred debris Wednesday. A group of teenagers chased and threw stones at Associated Press reporters, some shouting "Go home!" and others yelling: "See you tonight."

Associated Press writers John Leicester, Christine Ollivier and Joelle Diderich in Paris contributed to this report.

Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press
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Barthes's essay on wrestling stays in the mind reading this. It's a morality play for the stupid, and the rioters will come again and again till the curtain comes down. We stand back and watch, barely suppressing our laughter.

Bravo, les enfants sauvage.