April 29, 2008 – 8:53 am
Washington Post, skipping past the “let’s humanize Muslims” paragraphs This prison is majority Muslim — as is virtually every house of incarceration in France. About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in the country’s prison system are Muslim, according to Muslim leaders, sociologists and researchers, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of […]
November 29, 2007 – 9:15 am
The riots by the RoP were much calmer on Wednesday night.
November 19, 2007 – 7:16 pm
I hope France is ready for burned McDonalds’ A French appeals court sentenced a former imam Monday to five years in prison for involvement in a plot to stage attacks in France to support fighters in Chechnya. The Paris Court of Appeals stiffened Chelalli Benchellali’s original 18-month suspended sentence, imposing instead a five-year prison term, […]
September 15, 2006 – 10:14 am
Oh, the irony (From the BBC) Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has claimed that a radical Algerian Islamist group has joined al-Qaeda and is being urged to punish France, it has emerged. Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video on a website on the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks. In the video, Zawahiri says: "Osama Bin […]
March 29, 2006 – 7:55 am
Morning, Y’all, Jebediah here. I’m just wondering who will be the first to surrender in the fight between the government, who sponsered the law that would allow business’ to fire people who suck, or the youths who are in full riot mode? Not capitulate, not change position, not cave to demands, not “work together to […]
November 10, 2005 – 10:20 pm
You would think that the meltdown in France, and the possible spreading of the riots would continue to be news. You would be wrong. A quick perusal of quite a few news sites finds the France riots being relegated to second, third, or even lower tier stories. Even at the BBC, the story wasn’t on […]
November 8, 2005 – 5:25 pm
The New York Time has found their way to save Chirac and his governmental buddies: blame the Cops! PARIS, Nov. 7 – The local police assigned to France’s poor suburbs who are the objects of scorn of the rioting youths are often inexperienced and ill equipped, according to a recent report from the National Commission […]
November 7, 2005 – 7:16 pm
God Almighty, how dumb can the French be? PARIS – France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris’ suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. […]
November 7, 2005 – 7:42 am
I’m not sure I get what French cars did to people. They are being burned willy nilly, along with schools, buildings, and people. Remember the handicapped woman? And, there was more of this last night: A night of rioting in France has left 1,408 vehicles burnt out and resulted in 395 arrests – the highest […]
November 6, 2005 – 8:19 am
Those peace lovers are still at it in France Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday. Some 2,300 police […]
