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Paris Riots — All About Economics & Race? — Not!

Posted By: 'Okie' | 1:54 pm — 11/6/2005 | 3 Comments See comments below:

Because of my business trip last week, and the raging head cold that I’ve picked up along the way, (please don’t be the flu!), I’m a bit late to this story. At least there is over a week of information to glean through in order to get some insight into what is actually happening to our French buddies. If you have been reading the AP stories and follow ups, you would be getting the impression that the rioting has been over the rich/poor divide. Reuters agrees with the AP and throws racism into the mix. Those analysis were from FrontPageMag.com, which then says the following:

One might get the impression from this that France is governed by top-hatted, cigar-smoking capitalists, building their fortunes on the backs of the poor, rather than by socialists and quasi-socialists who have actually strained the economy by spending huge amounts of money on health and welfare programs. Nor does the idea that the rioting has been caused by economic inequalities explain why Catholics and others who are poor in France have not joined the Muslims who are rioting. Of course, all the news agencies have either omitted or mentioned only in passing that the rioters are Muslims at all. The casual reader would not be able to escape the impression that what is happening in France is all about economics — and race. [emph. mine]

Today the AP tells us of a bomb making factory found in a southern suburb of Paris, [h/t: Drudge].

Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters’ faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said Sunday.

Six youths, all aged under 18, were arrested in the raid Saturday night on a building in Evry south of Paris where the gasoline bombs were being put together, Jean-Marie Huet, the ministry’s director of criminal affairs and pardons, told The Associated Press.

The discovery, Huet said, shows that gasoline bombs being used by rioters “are not being improvised by kids in their bathrooms.”

So Chirac finally vows arrests, trials and punishment for the rioters. Hey, why the rush? You’ve let them go wild for 10 days already. Maybe it’s because the violence is getting a little too close to the city proper?

The violence took another alarming turn with attacks in the well-guarded French capital. Police said 35 cars were torched, most on the city’s northern and southern edges.

In central Paris, gasoline bombs damaged three cars near Place de la Republique. Residents reported a loud explosion and flames. [emph. mine]

I guess that France and the rest of western Europe haven’t given the Muslims enough attention, or at least have tried to squelch their social and religious customs and make them be more European? Not hardly. From Front Page again:

So evidently France’s failure to live up to its policy of playing down the differences between ethnic groups has bred the simmering anger that has now boiled over in the riots. However, in fact France has done just the opposite of playing down the differences between ethnic groups. In her seminal Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, historian Bat Ye’or details a series of agreements between the European Union and the Arab League that guaranteed that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be compelled in any way to adapt “to the customs of the host countries.” On the contrary, the Euro-Arab Dialogue’s Hamburg Symposium of 1983, to take just one of many examples, recommended that non-Muslim Europeans be made “more aware of the cultural background of migrants, by promoting cultural activities of the immigrant communities or ‘supplying adequate information on the culture of the migrant communities in the school curricula.’” Not only that: “Access to the mass media had to be facilitated to the migrants in order to ensure ‘regular information in their own language about their own culture as well as about the conditions of life in the host country.” [emph. mine]

Starting to sound a bit familiar, huh? We have Islam being taught as curriculum in some California public schools. Bilingual education is now time-honored, even though we know that it hurts students performance and chances for success later in life. Multiculturalism is being taught to our kids in K-12 and hammered into their psyches in college and the university. The Ayn Rand Institute defines multiculturalism as:

Multiculturalism is a growing force in America’s universities and public life. In brief, multiculturalism is the view that all cultures, from that of a spirits-worshiping tribe to that of an advanced industrial civilization, are equal in value.

Since cultures are obviously not equal in value—not if man’s life is your standard of value—this egalitarian doctrine can have only one purpose: to raze the mountaintops. Multiculturalism seeks to obliterate the value of a free, industrialized civilization (which today exists in the West and elsewhere), by declaring that such a civilization is no better than primitive tribalism. More deeply, it seeks to incapacitate a mind’s ability to distinguish good from evil, to distinguish that which is life promoting from that which is life negating. [emph. mine]

Way back in 1971, when I was a student at the private, not state sponsored, Tulsa University, multiculturalism was being presented to us in the art department as positive gospel truth. I remember giving a speech in communications class against trying to modernize tribal societies in Africa and So. America, because “it was only a shallow effort by Big Business to sell more washing machines and cars.” Sh_t howdy! 18-months of college and already brain washed by the Leftist elites. Funny, but all one had to do was see that these folks really don’t want to spend their lives in dire poverty, enslaved by ruthless political rulers, slaughtered by the millions in ethnic purges, or is that just me? FrontPage again, commenting on the failure of Western Europe’s trial run to embrace multiculturalism:

That decision is a small example of what the Paris riots demonstrate on a large scale: the abject failure of the multiculturalist philosophy that disparate groups can coexist within a nation without any idea that they must share at least some basic values. The French are paying the price today for blithely assuming that France could absorb a population holding values vastly different from that of the host population without negative consequences for either. [emph. mine]

And still the world press presents this event to us as class &/or race struggle, not a clash of cultures. Lack of perspective? Lack of understanding? Complicity? Mr. Atos at My Sandmen writes:

Might someone at the AP beg the question, what does the torching of a synagogue and the immolation of a 56-year old handicapped woman have to do with impoverished rancor? It has everything in common with Islamic fundamentalism currently plaguing the globe in the form of terrorism, and until Western media chooses to come to grips with the facts in this matter, they will continue to force feed the public cold cucumber swill disguise as truth with a main course of chilled consequence. We might deserve it, but we certainly won’t like it.

We are watching happen in France what will most definitely happen here, if we keep going down the path on which we are currently blindly headed . . . (db)

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  • http://mysandmen.blogspot.com/ mr.atos

    Multiculturalism, “seeks to incapacitate a mind’s ability to distinguish good from evil, to distinguish that which is life promoting from that which is life negating.”

    That is exactly right. By declaring that all cultures are inherently equal (and teaching that presumption to Western children) the Left’s cult of multiculturalism has ensured the impotence of mental judgment. Suddenly there is no value differentiation between the culture that cherishes the recognition of an individual’s inalienable existence among his brethren, and that culture which regards his fellow as subservient,slave or sustenance.

    All cultures are not inherently equal. And any sensibilty that acknowlegdes multicultural equivalence is as absurd as the notion that all substances are food.

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  • http://www.kstreetfriend.blogspot.com kstreetfriend

    Paris riots coming to America. . . What is the plight of America’s black males? Consider this.

    I write the following because Tom Birdsong, Assistant Managing Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on Wednesday, November 9, 2005, said, “No one is going to write about your family’s plight.” Thereafter, Mrs. Estelle B. Richman’s staff (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania‘s Secretary of Welfare) became very rude and indifferent to our emergency situation. In fact, Ms. Richman’s chief of staff, Linda Hicks no longer accepted our calls. Christian Bowser actually laughed about our situation. Inez Titus, became even more stubborn with her unlawful position. The Executive Director for Western Pennsylvania Department of Welfare, Tim Cornell (Mrs. Titus’ supervisor) has yet to return any of our calls.

    Nonetheless, a man was shot to death in a cinema lobby shootout after watching gangsta rapper 50 cent’s movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” prompting the Loews Cineplex at the Waterfront in West Homestead (just east of Pittsburgh) to stop showing the film. I was there with my family (common-law wife and three minor children). That is, although determined eligible, my family has again been denied the Low Income Heating Assistance Program (“LIHEAP”) federal entitlement for the fourth or fifth straight year. Without heat during the cold winter months a theater provides temporary shelter (allowing my family opportunity to give relatives “a break” from our nightly sleep-overs).
    (…)
    Immediately, I called Mr. Birdsong. But, he became rude. The conversation concluded with Mr. Birdsong saying “No one is going to write about your family’s plight.”

    50 cents, during an interview on ABC’s “The View,” said he was saddened by the fatal shooting: “I feel for the victim’s family in this situation.” He added, “But you know, these weren’t kids. This was a 30-year-old man (who) had a dispute with three other guys.”

    I’m older than 30. But, what is rage? How come I’m able to control my anger? Would I have controlled my anger if one of my family members was hit by a stray bullet during the shootout?

    [Edited by "Okie"]

    Dude, I don’t mind long comments, but you can’t just reproduce your entire blog post over here on my site, at least not without asking. If someone wants to read the whole screed, they’ll follow the link at the top of the comment. Sheesh! (db)