On one side you have the French people who are used to their welfare state and the expected entitlements. Low fertility rates put a strain on the future income of the welfare state. Workers expect not get fired and employers are unwilling to hire people because they can't fire them. Even the simplest reforms cause riots.
On the other side you have an immigrant Muslim class, which was never properly integrated into society. Even if they wanted to, they really couldn't. Youth unemployment of the children of immigrants reaches 50%. Many then turn to crime and jihad. Lax law enforcement, only bolsters their bravado. Then enter Islamic extremists who recruit. Anti-seminitism and anti-French sentiment increase. France could be 1/4 Muslim in 2 decades.
France is the epitome of what liberal American socialists want here and I hope they take the time to look at the riot photos.
PARIS - A nationwide strike shut down the Eiffel Tower and snarled air and rail travel for the second time in a week Tuesday while students barricaded themselves in schools to protest a jobs measure that has riven the country and put the government in crisis mode.
Protesters have mounted ever-larger demonstrations for two months against the law, which would make it easier to fire young workers. But President Jacques Chirac signed it anyway Sunday, saying it will help France keep pace with the global economy....
By midday, police said at least 100,000 people had hit French streets, including buoyant students parading through Marseille under a sunny southern sky and major marches from Nantes in the west to Saint-Etienne in the southeast. Protests even reached the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where 2,000 people marched.
Here is an excellent article on the increase in crime, much of which goes unreported:
It is the private complaint of everyone, however, that the police have become impotent to suppress and detect crime. Horror stories abound. A Parisian acquaintance told me how one recent evening he had seen two criminals attack a car in which a woman was waiting for her husband. They smashed her side window and tried to grab her purse, but she resisted. My acquaintance went to her aid and managed to pin down one of the assailants, the other running off. Fortunately, some police passed by, but to my acquaintance’s dismay let the assailant go, giving him only a warning. The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
Attacks against Jews are also on the rise.
...The testimony of this 17-year-old femme fatale who happily offered herself as “bait” in the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, whose tortured body was found on wasteland, has shocked a country which is haunted by a painful history of anti-semitism....
Besides Yalda, several women have been arrested in an investigation into their role in botched efforts to lure other Jewish men into “honey traps”.
“He wanted a Jew,” a girl called Audrey told police, referring to Youssouf Fofana, the charismatic leader of the Barbarians, who was listed by the girls in their telephone directories as “Youssouf the barbarian”. Times
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