Thursday, November 03, 2005
You might have noticed
I don't have time now to make a fancy Ezzie blog with links, so just believe me... In all the articles I have read about the riots in France - only one actually said the rioters were Muslims. Most articles, including those from the French media (not surprising) call them "poor immigrant" or "North African" Youths.
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Yay! You finally posted! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read of the stories, it seems far more religious than social. It's not because of poverty, I assure you of that.
ReplyDeleteNo - my point was that I agreed with her. We both feel that much of the rioting is because of religion, and yet the papers refuse to acknowledge it as such. There are a couple imams who have spoken out in encouragement of the rioting, and Islamist websites have encouraged it as well. I had not heard of any demands such as the one you saw - all reports I saw led me to believe the media did not want to acknowledge that Muslims were responsible. LGF has more on the same subject yesterday, as well.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I phrased it poorly above: My point was that I agreed with her assessment - the stories I'd read showed that the riots had little to do with poverty or even the electrocution, but rather religion; yet, the stories still refused to call them Muslims.
ReplyDeleteThere was also another story that LGF pointed to just a couple of hours ago that demonstrated that the 18-21 year olds you mention are far more organized than you implied.
I cannot explain the Christian rioters - I haven't read any reports that discuss them. I'd also be curious if they are playing a major or very minor role.
On a seperate note, do you have a blog? The one in your profile seems to be outdated.