Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Paris riots: al Jazeera reports

One really need to read this in it entirety to understand how various Arab and jihadi factions are starting to jockey for position viz a viz the Paris riots.
The violence sweeping Paris' impoverished suburbs has triggered criticism from the Arab media over a failure to integrate immigrants It has also raised fears that the riots' consequences could spread across the Arab-Muslim world.

Pictures of burning cars and ransacked shops were splashed across the front pages of Arab newspapers while television networks have mobilised to cover what one daily called the "civil war" and another the "uprising".


While condemning the spread of violence by French youths - mostly among the country's immigrant Muslim and Arab communities - the Arab media has mainly blamed riots on longstanding social malaise, unemployment and alienation.
Again, It's the French Government's fault for not doing enough to appease, ahem, assimilate these foriegn nationals who fled their countries because of the corruption and poverty back home.

I just love the prevailing meme: it's the government's fault that the immigrants can't assimilate, not the immigrant's fault. We can't blame the victim, even if he is guilty.

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