As promised, it's France's turn today

Neal Boortz, a talk radio host based in Atlanta, Georgia, linked to and commented on this article the other day. Read it and come back, I'll still be here.

Notice anything missing? What Neal noticed is that nowhere in that article does one find out that all of the "youth gangs" mentioned in the story are Muslim. Why isn't that fact mentioned? It would seem to be a major part of the story, explaining WHY the youths who are members of the "Religion of Peace" are rioting. Nope, we have to be PC and just say that they are disaffected French youths, conveniently leaving the Muslim part out of it. They are only referred to as "Arab-origin and black", leaving out the detail that the youths feel, rightly or wrongly, that the two teens were killed because of their religion.

The article also gets other facts wrong, in addition to leaving some out. The article claims that:

"order was officially restored on November 17. "

But was it? Other articles seem to disagree with that analysis. This piece from UPI claims that 14 policemen a day are injured in clashes with these Muslim gangs. This article from The World Tribune reports that 2,500 policemen have been injured in 2006 alone. Other quotes from the articles:

"We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists," Thooris told journalists. Sarkozy, the leading center-right candidate for next year's presidential election, responded by dispatching cops in body armor, equipped with automatic weapons and rubber bullets, stun and teargas grenades into several Paris suburbs with orders to "restore control" from "organized crime." In one recent clash 250 cops dispersed a 100-strong Muslim gang armed with baseball bats." (UPI)

and:

"France's huge Muslim minority community has come under the influence of agents often influenced and financed by Al Qaida. These agents have recruited Muslim youngsters for urban warfare in which police and government representatives are injured daily." (World Tribune)

and:

"France's prison inmates are over 50 percent Muslim." (UPI)

That doesn't sound like restored order to me. Apparently there are entire neighborhoods outside of Paris that the police are afraid to go into. Since France is a country with strict gun control, the average citizen is out of luck when it comes to defending themselves. Of course, this stupid policy doesn't stop the gangs, some of who "were carrying handguns". As usual, the law-abiding citizen caught in the middle is the one who gets the shaft.

France has a huge problem on its hands. Radical Islam is threatening to tear it in two. Whether it had a hand or not in causing the current problem by treating its immigrants shabbily, it had better come up with some policies to control this fundamentalist unrest soon, or it is going to lose control of the entire country. I do not recommend traveling there, unless you like living dangerously.