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Body Count Begins In French Al-Qaeda Offensive

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French riots claim first victim – CNN

A man who was beaten by an attacker during rioting north of Paris has died, becoming the first fatality since urban unrest started 11 days ago, according to the French Foreign Ministry.

The man was beaten as he tried to put out a trash can fire on Friday in the Paris suburb of Stains in the region of Seine-Saint Denis.

But there’s more from those pesky, restless French “youths” with no MSM-identified ethnicity, religion or agenda…

Among the worst incidents reported — rocks thrown at two buses hit a 13-month-old child in Colombe, an official with the Interior Ministry said. The child was in serious condition.

In the northern city of Rouen, a police barricade was set afire and a burning car was pushed into the police station; and in Strasbourg, near the German border, a school was torched.

A church was set ablaze in the southern fishing town of Sete and another in nearby Lens, Pas de Calais; two schools in the southeastern town of Saint-Etienne and a police station in the central France town of Clermont-Ferrand were torched, as was a social center in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.

More deaths will come at the hands of Al-Qaeda’s ground war in Europe, I fear. Appeasers are not immune from this global threat.

[RELATED STORY – BoiFromTroy has an on-the-scene pal whose blogging in Paris.)

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. More unintentionally funny headlines from the WaPo:

    Violence Spreads Across France
    • World Opinion: French Debate Cause of Unrest
    • Photos: French Endure Continued Arson Attacks

  3. Dare I ask, dare I suggest… where is America’s leading francophile when the mobs, rioters, looters, and poor of Paris need him more than the Democrats? Yes, Mr-I-Speak-With-World-Leaders-Like-In-France-JohnKerry… gosh, what a difference a year can make –last March the world was all a-titter with JFK’s repronounced lovefest with the French and they with him…

    http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/15/162909.shtml

    Gosh, how fast Mr Kerry seems to have distanced himself from his beloved ol’ country, France. Remember when the American public was fed that ancient bs about France being more cultured, more tolerant, more accepting, more international…

    What a difference a year makes.

    France in riots, poverty at an all time high since the devastation of WWII, french leaders powerless over their cultured and sophisticated citizens and left hoping for a rainstorm to put out the fires and passions, and JFK again “missing in action” when the bullets start to fly.

    Paging Mr Kerry, the presidency of France is now open –wife may attend if she brings the $$$. Come Mrs Heinz-Kerry, spin some of your charisma and magic on the rioting poor. But stay away from any MarieA analogies for now.

  4. France in riots, poverty at an all time high since the devastation of WWII

    France’s GDP growth in the third quarter was 1%, compared with 3.8% in the USA. (And France didn’t have any major cities devastated by hurricanes). These riots are not going to help the French economy.

  6. The most interesting thing about it is that France is the nirvana that the Democrats want in action. Four day work week, required vacations measured in months, virtually impossible to lay off or fire employees, living wage requirements, nationalized and universal health care, subsidized housing, full pensions, punishing taxes on corporations and the wealthy, welfare benefits virtually equal to working, absolute prohibition on any sort of discrimination. In theory, there shouldn’t BE any poor, unemployed, discriminated against, or disaffected people in France.

    However, what’s the cause of the rioting, according to the MSM/liberal talking heads? Poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and lack of opportunity.

  8. Please call Congressperson-of-the-World JohnConyers TODAY and have him hold another well attended, well received, purposeful democratic minority congressional committee hearing on these riots while they’re still fresh… I think the Downing St Memo predicted this would happen in France if Bush went to SAmerica for a regional summit.

    Ahh, to be French and watch the common street urchins riot and loot –it makes one long for the Terror when peasants were kept in check and we could lop off the heads of the idle rich… speaking of the idle rich, where is John-francophile-Kerry in this hour of need, this hour of crisis?

    Why, he’s up in NH going door2door in the trailer parks in Manchester schlupting for the mayoral candidate… while wearing a “Ask Me If I’m Running in 2008” t-shirt with the phrase “Oh Pleeeeease let me be coy” on the back. Stumping for the mayor’s re-election bid in a New Hampshire town? While Paris burns! The shame of it… to have once been important and listened to by all the international leaders… and now this, not a word of a ground swell to draft JFK for France’s president. The humilation.

  9. Perhaps Chirac should grow a beard, put on a turban, declare himself the Supreme Mullah of the Caliphate of Frogistam, and institute Islamic law. The — what are they up to six? — The Sixieme Republique could be the Sixieme Republicque Islamique.

    Prince Charles would wet his pants in envy.

  10. From Ape News:

    As urban unrest was reported in neighboring Belgium and Germany, the French government faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence, despite massive police deployment and continued calls for calm. One riot-hit town in suburban Paris said it was preparing to enforce a curfew.

    Words fail me…

  11. Hey, where are all the pussy Liberals on these Muslims-Riot-in-France postings? Seems like a pretty important world event to me! Monty, Chandie, GayCowboyBoob…where are ya, gals??? How come your big mouths don’t have anything to say about this? What’s an anti-American Lefty to do when two other America-hating forces fight each other. Guess it’s not much fun when there’s no way to blame Bush.

  12. Right on, #12. And let’s hear a big AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE for PM Howard’s announcement today from Canberra regarding the thwarting of a terrorist plot Down Under. Sixteen people (that would be Arab males for you lefties) were taken into custody.

    Let’s hear it for the Coalition of the Willing!

    Regards,
    Peter Hughes

  14. Pat Buchanan sums it up.

    There are two leftist answers to this article;

    One – it’s OK that whites’ world power and numbers decline because once the power finally is shared equally and diversity fully exploited, eden will blossom on earth.

    Two – it’s OK that whites’ world power and numbers decline because they are evil, not to be trusted and to blame for almost every third and second world poverty, pestillence and depravity. They need to be marginalized to the point of impotence.

    White liberals seem to be willing to gamble on number one in support of the variety of liberal grievances that, over time, have blamed no one else but white christian males. Wheels greased by socialism, guilt, a need to be accepted and most of the general “high” one gets by assigning the blame instead of receiving it.

    I laugh at white liberals who think that just because they shun christianity, put on a Che t-shirt and listen to some reggae that their children will be welcomed across the redrawn borders after the revolution in Western civilization.

    By the way, secular Socalists in good standing always profess that a life free of pain is their priority – why then are they always trying to deny the masses of their opium?

    (I may post this again as noone will read it down here…)

  15. #12, Oh, I predict they’ll be out in force the rest of the week. It’s looking pretty grim for the GOP in NJ and VA, so there will probably be a lot gloating the next few … weeks. Lefties don’t get to celebrate winning elections very much, so I’m sure they’ll make the most of it.

  16. #15 I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at, but overall it’s “okay” if whites world power and numbers decline if they consistantly persist in sterilizing themselves.

  19. So, observing that Muslim violence is being carried out by Muslims is “paranoid,” but claiming that Diebolt rigged elections, that the president lied in order to get a war to enrich his neo-con oil cabal, that the US Government is secretly run by Israel, that the president allowed 9-11 to happen, that the US has become a police state, that anyone who expresses opposition to the Bush Regime is crushed, that the Australian government staged phony terror raids (see thread above), and that … oh, yeah, Republicans are fixed to exterminate gay people … that’s just another day in the life of the average lefty.

  22. That’s funny VtheK — some right-wing photog runs around in the middle of the rally, asking people to “smile for the camera” so other wingnuts like you can use the photos as “evidence” of anti-war joy over the deaths of other Americans.

    However, the “raptuous joy” I referred to above is not taken from a setup scene. It’s clear in the comments of you and others above. Why not be honest for a change and just admit you love what’s happening to France? You guys just can’t get over the fact that the French Government refused to go along with Bush’s Iraq Folly and you’ll take any French misfortune as well-deserved payback.

  25. Hey QueerPat, it wasn’t a “vast right wing conspiracy” that brought about the failed French leadership battling poor unassimilated immigrants in the streets of Paris and her suburbs. But your response here on behalf of the whacked LibLefties is telling.

    No, it was your darling ohlala-model-the-US-on-the-French-way-of-life nonsense spouted by JFKerry and the moonbats (for whom France could do no wrong) –in fact, in whom the LibLeft curried empathy for the French distain of all-things-Bush/all-things-military.

    Nope QueerPat, just like elections in Iraq, the downsizing of US troop levels in the WOT, and growing support among Americans who rightly view the LibLeft as wrong, out of touch, and void of leadership… the failure of the French to be soooo much better than the US or UK is GOOD news for all Americans… except the LibLefties like WarrenBeatty and HowieDean and CindySheehan –who still profit from American deaths abroad. And you, Monty, GayCowBBs, Reader, et al.

    Burn baby burn; revolution is good for the racist, bigoted, anti immigrant, elist Liberals still controlling ANY country in the world. Throw off those shackles of excessive govt socialism, thought control, and cultural imperialism. Burn baby burn.

    The big problem for France isn’t the rioting… it’s that there’s little or nothing on the conservative side to act as a viable, available alternative to the LibLeft socialists in power. That’s the real problem.

  27. Mark Steyn knocks it out of the park:

    The first country formally to embrace “multiculturalism” – to the extent of giving it a cabinet post – was Canada, where it was sold as a form of benign cultural cross-pollination: the best of all worlds. But just as often it gives us the worst of all worlds. More than three years ago, I wrote about the “tournante” or “take your turn” – the gang rape that’s become an adolescent rite of passage in the Muslim quarters of French cities – and similar phenomena throughout the West: “Multiculturalism means that the worst attributes of Muslim culture – the subjugation of women – combine with the worst attributes of Western culture – licence and self-gratification. Tattooed, pierced Pakistani skinhead gangs swaggering down the streets of northern England areas are as much a product of multiculturalism as the turban-wearing Sikh Mountie in the vice-regal escort.”

  28. Guys… its obvious to me by now that QP and GCB just live in their alternate universe where only their conspiracy theories are factual and “proven” by Air America. Whereas the images on our TV screens and photos (of smiling lefties laughing at 2,000 US troop deaths) are figments of OUR imagination.

    I just hope these lunatics don’t vote….even though they say they do. I’m in favor of an IQ and sanity vote test.

  29. I’d settle for just a photo ID requirement for voting. 🙂

    Think about that next time…..in this country, it’s illegal for you to buy cigarettes, buy beer, drive a car, cash a check, use a credit card (almost), or even be hired for a job without photo ID…..but making you produce it to vote is “racist”.

    Probably because it would be the single most effective way of stopping the Democratic practice of busing people from precinct to precinct to cast multiple ballots.

  30. And if it were up to me, you’d have to have the Photo ID, the only way you got the photo ID would be by passing the same test immigrants have to pass to become citizens, and there would be jail-time for vote fraud.

    Also, yes, Bruce, leftists have a unique capacity for looking at any tragic event … Katrina, 2000 Combat Deaths, the Paris Intifadah … and all they see in it is “How can we bash Bush/the Right with this?”

  33. Always nice to see a Republican stand up and cheer for Jim Crow laws.

    Like I said, Queer Patriot….let’s see you claim that having to produce a photo ID to buy cigarettes, buy beer, drive a car, cash a check, or (in most cases) use a credit card is “Jim Crow”.

    My favorite example is holding a job. In order to be hired legally in the United States, you must provide two things — proof of identification (usually a state-issued driver’s license or identity card) and proof of your right to work in the US (a Social Security card or birth certificate, a naturalization card, or a green card). Is that “Jim Crow” as well?

  34. QP – You obviously don’t know your history very well. Jim Crow laws and the fight to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were instituted by DEMOCRATS. The Civil Rights Act passed with overwhelming REPUBLICAN approval in both the House and Senate.

    There was a petition called the Southern Manifesto which was signed by 100 Southern Democrats in the House and Senate to try and kill LBJ’s proposed legislation in order to avoid integration. That is 100 signatures out of 535 House and Senate members – almost 20%.

    And just to make your day, one of the most staunchest and outspoken opponents of the Act (and a signer of the Southern Manifesto) was none other than Sen. Albert Gore, Sr. (TN). You know, the sperm donor who gave us Al Gore, Jr., without whom the internet wouldn’t have been invented.

    So, your half-witted comment about Republicans standing up for Jim Crow laws belongs where the Southen Manifesto belongs – in the trash.

    Regards,
    Peter Hughes

  35. The recent French government response per CNN today is amazing. The new powers include a decree authorizing curfews, to take effect at midnight tonight. Also, police will now be allowed to carry out raids for suspected stockpiling of weapons. And these extreme, draconian measures can last for (are you ready for this?) up to 12 days.

    And the French authorities say that the intensity of the violence is already abating. They apparently base this on the statistic that only 1173 cars were burned last night, compared to 1408 the previous night. And only 330 people were arrested last night, compared to 395 the night before. Does that sound like the threat of curfews has turned this whole thing around?

  37. And only 330 people were arrested last night, compared to 395 the night before.

    Unlike in the USA, where, while crime is at a low, the number of Americans in jail is at an all-time high.

  38. #38. Right. Crime rates are low because so many criminals are locked up. That is what you’re saying, isn’t it Gaylord?

    Or are you taking the liberal position that people are being jailed needlessly, and that crime rates would remain at their current level if we let all the criminals back on the street?

  39. Even the Vatican is against Bush and you fundies (ID) They are separating themselves very quickly from holy rollers like you guys.

    Bwahahahahaha!!

    No where to run…no place to hide. 🙂 🙂 Hypocrites!

  40. Or you could take GCB’s position that abortion was the reason for our low crime rates… that we already killed future criminals. Who needs capital punishment when you can just pre-screen the criminals?

  42. #17 Your post is what I was trying to get at…the question “tell me again why it makes me a racist to mourn the obvious extinction of my culture?”.

    Libs I beg you, tell me why!

  43. #35: Don’t confuse all Democrats with Dixiecrats of 1964. Most of the democrats who fought it / voted against it were from the south and didn’t want racial equality. It was also Kennedy and then Johnson who called for its passage.

    Let’s not forget also that as far back as the Reagan 80s to the present, it has been the call of conservative Republicans to turn back portions of measures of the Civil Rights Act, denouncing some of its provisions as being creating “quotas” (which it actually forbids).

  45. #40 & 45 Monty, congratualtions! You’ve won!!

    In two small posts, you’ve been able to redefine yourself from whacked-out GayLeft radical to a newly minted “idiot” label.

    Two posts. Wow, you are good at compelling arguments, observations and convincing debate. Just kidding, Monty.

    But the anti-Catholic bashing bigot routine you’ve honed to an artform is annoying. Or are you the new AlFranken now?

  46. Let’s not forget also that as far back as the Reagan 80s to the present, it has been the call of conservative Republicans to turn back portions of measures of the Civil Rights Act, denouncing some of its provisions as being creating “quotas” (which it actually forbids).

    Of course…..nothing like making up nebulous accusations to cover the racism your party supports.

    Not surprising, though….we see it here all the time, with you and your fellow gay Democrats berating conservatives for being “Uncle Toms” about gay rights while calling politicians who support antigay state constitutional amendments stripping gays of rights “pro-gay” and “gay-supportive”.