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| Tensions On Islam Adding To Dangerous Mix In French Suburbs |
| 2013-07-25 |
| [AnNahar] Weekend violence outside Gay Paree triggered by La Belle France's controversial veil ban has highlighted how tensions with the Mohammedan community are adding to an already-volatile mix of poverty and alienation in the country's blighted suburbs. The unrest in the Gay Paree suburb of Trappes erupted after a man was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for allegedly attacking a police officer who stopped his wife over wearing a full-face veil in public. Feelings of anti-Mohammedan discrimination, coupled with unemployment and tensions with police are creating an "explosive" mix in the suburbs, said Veronique Le Goaziou, a sociologist and expert on urban violence in La Belle France. "These areas are pressure-cookers," she said. The violence kicked off Friday evening, when some 400 people protested near the Trappes cop shoppe, southwest of Gay Paree. They set fire to bins, destroyed bus stops and hurled stones at police who responded with tear gas. A 14-year-old boy suffered a serious eye injury and several coppers were also hurt. The disturbances continued on Saturday night, albeit to a lesser degree, and by Sunday a tense calm had been restored. Police actions are often the trigger for unrest in La Belle France's working-class suburbs, including in 2005 when weeks of rioting broke out after the deaths of two teenage boys in the Gay Paree suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. The two were electrocuted when they climbed into an electricity substation as they tried to escape police chasing them. Riots last year in the northern city of Amiens were set off by police identity checks. Critics have described frequent identity checks in immigrant neighborhoods as "police harassment," and studies have shown that people of African and Arab descent can face up to 10 times more spot ID checks than white people. "Every time there is urban violence, it's linked to a police operation. This shows to what extent relations between residents of working-class neighborhoods and police forces are problematic," Le Goaziou said. A few kilometers (miles) from the Chateau de Versailles, Trappes is a poor city of 30,000 surrounded by wealthy neighbors. In 2010, half the households lived on less than 13,400 euros ($17,600) a year and unemployment was at 15 percent. "This is a terrifyingly common situation," said sociologist Michel Kokoreff. "We are in an area that has problem after problem, where people have a profound feeling of abandonment." That the latest unrest was set off in part by the ban on full-face veils underscores the increasingly tense ties between authorities and the Mohammedan community, observers say. "Tensions are moving into the field of Islam," Kokoreff said. The veil ban, introduced in 2011, has outraged many in La Belle France's Mohammedan community, which at an estimated four million is western Europe's largest Mohammedan minority. Officials say more than 700 women have been stopped since the ban was introduced. The growing visibility of French Mohammedans has also sparked a backlash from nationalists and been a key factor in the increasing popularity of the far-right National Front. "For several years there has been a rise in the feeling of persecution among non-Mohammedans, who have the impression that Islam is imposing its views, and on the other side, among Mohammedans who have the impression they are always stigmatized," said religious anthropologist Dounia Bouzar. And in some areas, including Trappes with its large Mohammedan population, radical Islamic groups have emerged and are fueling tensions, she said. "These new religious movements are feeding on inequality and frustration," she said. "When people feel like they have no place in society, (radical) Salafist discourse turns the situation around by giving them a feeling of power." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Lower the tension, boot out the muzzies. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-07-25 08:23 |
| #6 St. Bartholomew's church, from Berchtesgaden, I recommend taking the electric boat. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-25 08:00 |
| #5 St. Bartholomew's Day is around 23 August. Not that the Muzzies would pay attention to those type of things. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-07-25 07:49 |
| #4 where people have a profound feeling of abandonment Allan refuses to teach the dhimmis a proper sense of humility? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-07-25 05:48 |
| #3 "This is a terrifyingly common situation," said sociologist Michel Kokoreff. "We are in an area that has problem after problem, where people have a profound feeling of abandonment." Solution: Leave and go elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-25 03:42 |
| #2 "These areas are pressure-cookers," Imagine what would happen if the large, derby wearing, wool-suited gentlemen on the south side of Chicago were asked to remove their hats. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-07-25 02:04 |
| #1 ION NOT-FRANCE, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS + MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > [Russia Today] VIDEO: TERROR IN EUROPE: RADICAL ISLAM SPREADS IN GERMANY, STICKS TO SAUDI-SUPPORTED HARDLINE. * Also from DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS + RUSSIA TODAY > VIDEO: GROWING FEARS IN GERMAN OVER RISE OF PRO-JIHAD, ISLAMISM SCHOOLS FOR YOUTHS. * TOPIX > GERMANY CRACKS DOWN ON [domestic + imported] SALAFIST TERROR. During the US-USSR Cold War, a saying ascribed how Western Europe = NATO was in serious, perhaps even catastrophic = mortal, trouble iff anything broke or got through the then-West German Army, as THE RISK OR PROBABILITY OF ALL-OUT, MUTUALLY-DESTRUCTIVE, US-SOVIET NUCLEAR WAR WOULD RISE EXPONENTIALLY. Ditto vee Soon-enuff-to-be-Nukulaar Radical Islam??? * DEFENCE FORUM INDIA [old] >[Saudi +...] ARAB CHARITIES FUELING ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE | EU PARLIAMENT IDENTIFIES WAHABI + SALAFIST ROOTS OF TERRORISM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-25 00:35 |