French Infitada Continues

The French Infitada continued last night, with the number of cars torched rising from the night before. When the number started declining, the press was quick to proclaim that the "rioting" was nearly over. Now that the number has risen, the story is buried on back pages. Overall this huge story has been given scant coverage by the media. Whenever, it is covered, the "M- word" isn't used.

However, the media isn't ignoring the religion of the rioters completely because of political correctness. I bet if there was similar rioting in Britian, the press would use the term Muslim. The argument would be that the British, in their support for US in Iraq, has inflamed the Muslim communities unnecessarily. If only the British had not supported the US, they would not be the subject of Muslim rioting.

France, however, opposed the US in Iraq, and has a long standing history of trying to befriend the Arabs. The militaries of many Muslim nations are armed with French weaponry. France is the Arabs' best supporter of Palestine in the West. When President Reagan launch an airstrike on Lybia in retalliation for the Berlin disco bombing, French President Mitterand refused the US the use of its airspace.

What the left refuses to admit, is that France is still the subject of Islamic aggression even though it had fully subscribed to the liberal ideology of "if we are nice to the Muslims they won't bother us." Instead of admiting a flaw in their logic, they try to convince the world, there are other reasons behind the rioting.

Notice the last paragraph, where some people retalliated by torching a mosque, but here Chirac is quick to demand an investigation. Too bad the French people can't count on the same support. The funny thing is that Chirac's government is supposed to be right of center! Obviously there is zero different between the UMP and the socialist party.

The number of cars torched overnight in France climbed slightly over the previous night to 502 in a 16th night of unrest that took its heaviest toll on the French provinces, police said Saturday. Security was boosted in the capital with some 3,000 police officers fanning out around strategic points to counter feared weekend attacks targeting Paris. Gatherings were banned from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.
"We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France," said national police chief Michel Gaudin, referring to the Paris region. Arson attacks were counted in 163 towns around France, he said. The count of those detained overnight stood at 206, bringing to 2,440 the number of suspects picked up in just over two weeks of unrest.

Two Molotov cocktails were tossed at a mosque Friday evening in the southern town of Carpentras, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to the unrest that has wracked the poor suburbs and small towns of France since Oct. 27.
President Jacques Chirac demanded that investigators quickly find out who was behind the attack. AP