#24 I fear you're all missing the point : all in all, this is relatively "minor", no death so far (of course having for example 27 bus, 400 cars and 3 warehouses torched in one night isn't exactly "minor), this is but a surge in an ongoing, worsening situation since at least 10 years.
The *real* danger comes from the appeasement of the french authorities :
- they've caved in to the narrative of the start of this (the two youths who stoopidly electrocuted themselves hiding in an obviously dangerous place labelled as such, after running away from an ID control... note they weren't even poursued!) and if i were to joke I'd say that soon the policemen will be accused of non-assistance to endangered youths.
- the local authorities are overhelmed, and have put all their hopes into "mediators", often from religious background; this "outsourcing" of sovereignty has been a stapple of local political life in such areas for a long time (in north of France you've got the Lille mayor who protects islamists and associate with terror-related islamic charities to get social peace, in heavily isalmized Roubazix you've got an alliance between left-leaning pols and islamists,...), but this is a new step.
-in 30 months or so, there will be municipal elections, and this new arragement will not be forgotten; the islamists have flexed their muscle, and to get peace, the powers-that-be will be ready to do any concessions they will be asked to do.
-same thing in national politics; the drive toward affirmative action, funding of mosques by the State, multiculturalism,... will only go stronger (and there is no true difference between Sarkozy and "de Villepin" there, the only thing is that the firts sez what he wishes to do, while the second acts under the radar, see the "fondation de l'islam de France" or the formation of imam by the Sorbonnes university).
What you must understand is there is a continous push, a "global jihad" that is mainly cultural, and that such surges in violence are only the "stick" to the usual carrot. It's a multi-faceted strategy, a culture war where only one of the side fight, while the other caves in.
It goes straight from the street level (where street violence, antijudeochristian/antiwhite prejudice drives out "gauls" from the 'hood, allows islamic businessmen to buy cheap real estate, to replace shops by hallal businesses,... and thus create muslim-controlled areas), to the cultural level (where there is an established "antiracist" apparatus that enforces the multiculturalist, islamically correct ideololgy, complete with rewriting of school books to present a "positive side of islam" or a terrorism-friendly curruculum in which the 9/11 attacks are a "contestation of the Us hegemony", law against discrimination,...), or to the political level (power and sovereignty-sharing with the muslims).
I repeat, the USA are the main opponent of the whole "WOT", but Europe is the prize and the main target. Both sides of the pond do not face the same dangers, and the USA are much less exposed (unless the terrs get their paws on WMD). |
AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) - A week of riots in poor neighborhoods outside Paris gained dangerous new momentum Thursday, with youths shooting at police and firefighters and attacking trains and symbols of the French state.