Yet another night of trouble in Paris

Unrest flared for an eighth straight night Thursday, though scaled down from previous says. Young men fire buckshot at riot police vehicles in Neuilly-sur-Marne, while a group of 30 to 40 harassed police near a synagogue further east in Stains, said the top official of Seine-Saint-Denis, Prefect Jean-Francois Cordet.

Read it here.

I still reject the notion that this is, how to say it, the raving of the poor and disaffected; that this is somehow the fruits of racism and France's unwillingness to "assimilate" North Africans. I content that Iran is using al-Qaida operatives to arm and foment organized violence directed at soft targets like car dealerships (wouldn't poor people steal the cars rather than set them on fire?) and French Government assets like policemen, firefighters and commuter trains. The MSM, as usual, highlights "roots causes" always using language like this to frame the behavior:

Beyond the poverty and despair of life in the shoddy immigrant communities ringing the shining French capital, local Muslims say, there is no one left with any sway over the rioting youths. [ital. mine].

That fits into their cosmology. It's because we haven't done enough.

I don't think so. When you have a guy like Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying things like "Israel should be wiped from the map", and standing in front of a large image showing national symbol falling through an hour glass as if their time is over, you have to believe that he's capable of anything.