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40,000 cameras keep watch on China's Urumqi

(AFP)July 2, 2010

BEIJING — Police have installed 40,000 security cameras throughout the capital of China's Xinjiang region, state media said on Friday, as the city braces for the firstanniversary of deadly ethnic violence.

The cameras have been installed in Urumqi in more than 3,000 public buses, 200bus stations, along more than 4,000 roads, 270 schools and more than 100 largesupermarkets or malls, the Xinjiang Economic Daily said.

The cameras, which are monitored around the clock from a police command centre,were installed to "ensure security in key public places, allow people of all ethnicitiesto enjoy quality public services, and create a peaceful capital," the report said.

Monday marks the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between theregion's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity.

The government says nearly 200 people were killed and about 1,700 injured in theunrest, China's worst ethnic violence in decades, with Han making up most of thevictims.

Xinjiang, a vast, arid but resource-rich region that borders Central Asia, has morethan eight million Uighurs, and many are unhappy with what they say has beendecades of repressive communist rule by Beijing.

Many also complain about an influx of Han that they say leaves them economicallyand culturally marginalised in their homeland.

Authorities have ramped up security in Xinjiang this year, while also promising toboost development to ease Uighur anger.

Urumqi police last month said they had launched a security clampdown to run untilJuly 20 that would include increased police patrols and inspections of vehicles.

Belgium’s Parliament votes to ban the burqa

Euronews

April 30, 2010

Belgium’s lower house of parliament has voted to ban the wearing of the burqa inpublic.

The Senate’s approval is expected to be a formality, which would make Belgium thefirst European country to criminalise the full Islamic veil.

The measure was overwhelmingly backed by 136 MPs with just two abstentions.

Now the bill to ban such clothing is likely to become law in June or July.



Religious studies expert, Caroline Sagesser, describes the measure as using ahammer to kill a fly: “The proposal originally came from the centre right Francophoneparty. But no other party, neither greens nor the left, dared to say we support theburqa.”

For the vice-president of the Executive of Belgian Muslims, Isabelle Praille, the bill is

a clear form of violence against citizens because it removes the notion of choice:“Some Taliban say a woman without a burqa is a woman too many. When I hear our politicians here say the same it’s like two kinds of rival extremes against women andwe have to condemn it.”

France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, is also looking towards aban on wearing veils in public, with the government set to examine a draft bill in May.

New French revolutionMARK STEYN Syndicated columnist

Sunday, November 6, 2005

Ever since 9/11, I've been gloomily predicting the European powder keg's about to go up."By 2010 we'll be watching burning buildings, street riots and assassinations on the newsevery night," I wrote in Canada's Western Standard back in February.

Silly me. The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimisticschedule. As Thursday's edition of The Guardian reported in London:



"French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Parisexperienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest."

"French youths," huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse? Grantedthat most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take muchtime in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity

as "French": They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from thebroader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertiveMuslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive "Arab street," but it'sin Clichy-sous-Bois.

The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up transatlanticrelations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as JohnKerry. If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringingevery major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fightingalongside the Americans?

For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada againstsynagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class hasbeen to prevent the spread of these attacks to targets of more, ah, general interest. Theyseem to have lost that battle. Unlike America's Europhiles, France's Arab street correctlyidentified Chirac's opposition to the Iraq war for what it was: a sign of weakness.

TURNING POINT IN HISTORY

The French have been here before, of course. Seven-thirty-two. Not 7:32 Paris time, whichis when the nightly Citroen-torching begins, but 732 A.D. - as in one and a third millenniaago. By then, the Muslims had advanced a thousand miles north of Gibraltar to control Spainand southern France up to the banks of the Loire. In October 732, the Moorish general Abdal-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris, but they were within200 miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St. Martin of Tours.

Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish force and, unlikeother Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground "like a wall a firm glacial mass," asthe Chronicle of Isidore puts it. A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead, the Muslims wereheading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself the surname "Martel" -or "the Hammer."

Poitiers was the high-water point of the Muslim tide in western Europe. It was anopportunistic raid by the Moors, but, if they'd won, they'd have found it hard to resist pushingon to Paris, to the Rhine and beyond. "Perhaps," wrote Edward Gibbon in "The Decline AndFall Of The Roman Empire," "the interpretation of the Quran would now be taught in theschools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet." There would be no Christian Europe. The Anglo-Celts who settled North America would have been Muslim. Poitiers, said Gibbon, was "an

encounter which would change the history of the whole world."Battles are very straightforward: Side A wins, Side B loses. But the French government isway beyond anything so clarifying. Today, a fearless Muslim advance has penetrated far deeper into Europe than Abd al-Rahman. They're in Brussels, where Belgian police officersare advised not to be seen drinking coffee in public during Ramadan, and in Malmo, whereSwedish ambulance drivers will not go without police escort.

It's way too late to re-run the battle of Poitiers. In the no-go suburbs, even before thesecurrent riots, 9,000 police cars had been stoned by "French youths" since the beginning of the year; some three dozen cars are set alight even on a quiet night.

"There's a civil war under way in Clichy-Sous-Bois at the moment," said Michel Thooris of the gendarmes' trade union Action Police CFTC. "We can no longer withstand this situation

on our own. My colleagues neither have the equipment nor the practical or theoreticaltraining for street fighting."



POLITICIANS DIVIDED

What to do? In Paris, while "youths" fired on the gendarmerie, burned down a gym anddisrupted commuter trains, the French Cabinet split in two, as the "Minister for SocialCohesion" (a Cabinet position I hope America never requires) and other colleagues distancethemselves from the Interior Minister, the tough-talking Nicolas Sarkozy, who dismissed therioters as "scum." President Chirac seems to have come down on the side of those who feelthe scum's grievances need to be addressed. He called for "a spirit of dialogue and respect."As is the way with the political class, they seem to see the riots as an excellent opportunityto scuttle Sarkozy's presidential ambitions rather than as a call to save the Republic.

A few years back I was criticized for a throwaway observation to the effect that "I find iteasier to be optimistic about the futures of Iraq and Pakistan than, say, Holland or Denmark." But this is why. In defiance of traditional immigration patterns, these young menare less assimilated than their grandparents. French cynics, like Prime Minister Dominiquede Villepin, have spent the past two years scoffing at the Bush Doctrine: Why, everyone

knows that Islam and democracy are incompatible. If so, that's less a problem for Iraq or Afghanistan than for France and Belgium.

If Chirac isn't exactly Charles Martel, the rioters aren't doing a bad impression of the Muslimarmies of 13 centuries ago: They're seizing their opportunities, testing their foe, probing hisweak spots. If burning the 'burbs gets you more "respect" from Chirac, they'll burn 'em again,and again. In the current issue of City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple concludes a piece onBritish suicide bombers with this grim summation of the new Europe: "The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict."Which sounds an awful lot like a new Dark Ages.

Paris Police Face Non-abating Immigrants Outrage Additional Reporting by Hadi Yahmid, IOL Correspondent

PARIS, October 31, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – French policeclashed with angry immigrant youths in a Paris suburb for the fourth straight nightSunday, October 30, as accusations that teargas was thrown into a mosque areexpected to exacerbate the situation further.

Eleven people were arrested after the violence in which eight cars and 16 rubbishbins were torched in the district of Clichy-sous-Bois in the northeastern Parissuburb of Saint Denis, departmental security spokesman Jean-Luc Sidot was

quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Six police officers were slightly injured after being hit by projectiles. There were noreports of any civilian casualties.

The unrest was triggered when two immigrant teenagers, aged 15 and 17, died byelectrocution on Thursday after they scaled the wall of an electrical relay station.

The local public prosecutor said the boys thought they were being chased bypolice, but authorities denied that was the case.

Hundreds of the suburb's residents held a peaceful march Saturday, October 29, inmemory of the teenagers, with groups of youths wearing tee-shirts marked "Deadfor Nothing".



A lawyer representing the families of the victims, Jean-Pierre Mignard, asked:"Why did these young people, who had done nothing wrong, feel sufficientlythreatened to enter a dangerous site, climb over a 2.5-meter (six foot) barbed-wirecovered wall and hide inside a turbine?"

More serious clashes in the area on Thursday and Friday had pitted hundreds of youths against police, with 23 officers injured and 13 people taken into custody, asthe burnt-out wrecks of dozens of cars lay smoldering on the streets.

Mosque Attacked

A canister producing irritating smoke was hurled inside the mosque by an unknownsource, according to the police and the local mayor's office.

Muslims inside accused French police of throwing teargas into the place of worship.

Sidot, the departmental security spokesman, said that was "probably not" the case

but added an inquiry would be launched.

The local member of parliament, Eric Raoult, told RTL radio that it was not clear that the canister contained teargas and that it may have been a grenade with apepper-based product.

He added that officers were finding the situation difficult and that there were"outlaws who want to keep areas outside the control of police."

Marginalization

The clashes came a week after France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, vowed

to wage a "war without mercy" on crime in the suburbs of Paris.Critics say Sarkozy's tough lien does not help cut crime in run-down suburbs, high-immigration areas facing chronic poverty, unemployment and a lack of prospects.

Years of government negligence and marginalization have turned many of thesesuburbs, especially Saint Denis, into a hotbed for crime, says IslamOnline.net’scorrespondent.

A Sorbonne research released earlier in the year by the French ObservatoryAgainst Racism found that Arab names and dark complexion color represent anobstacle to jobseekers.

The "Discrimination at Workplace" research said that the organization sent 325CVs of competitive applicants, who only differ in names and origin, to find that theopportunity for North African applicants to get a job is five times less than natives.

French authorities claim that Clichy-sous-Bois is a fertile ground for "radicalMuslims" and gangs.

But mosque in Saint Denis, home to the Union of French Islamic Organizations(UOIF), play a key role in easing tensions erupting every now and then betweenMuslim youths and police.

Better known among the French as “93,” Saint Denis has a Muslim population of

500,000 out of 1,200 million people, making it the largest Muslim residential area inthe country.



Muslims make up some five million of France’s 60 million people, the biggestMuslim minority in Europe.

Paris Struggles to Contain RiotersBy George ThomasCBN News Sr, Reporter P A R I S R I O T S

CBN.com – (CBN News) - France is on edge again after a week of violence in thestreets of Paris. Gangs of angry youths have been rioting in poor suburbs of theFrench capital.

Now it has spread beyond Paris.

At times it looked and sounded like a war zone.

For eight straight nights, French police have clashed with rioters on the outskirts of Paris. At least 400 cars were burned and several buildings gutted Thursday night.

In northeast Paris, where most of the violence has occurred, Police were out in forcetrying to regain control of the streets.

And for the first time, there were reports of unrest in the south and west of France.

It all began a week ago when angry mobs accused the police of killing two teenagersfrom North Africa. The police have denied that claim.

But the anger quickly spread to several run-down areas around the capital. Here,immigrants of mainly Muslim background have settled into a life of poverty,

unemployment, and crime.Immigrants make up 10 percent of the French population. A large chunk of them feeldiscriminated against. The young particularly feel alienated from French society. Andso, increasingly, they define themselves as Muslims.

France has the largest Muslim community in Western Europe and has become afertile recruiting ground for Islamic radicals.

The violence has once again raised questions about France's ability to deal with theanger that has been brewing in these poor neighborhoods for decades.

Meanwhile, this is the man the rioters hate the most -- France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. He believes the attacks were coordinated and not spontaneous.And he has called the gangs "scum" and has vowed to "clean out" troubled suburbs.

About 150 people have been arrested so far, and there is talk about deploying theArmy and enforcing a curfew.

But with the weekend coming up, officials fear that the crisis could escalate.

Anger Erupts In Paris Suburb After Deaths Of Muslim BoysTeenagers Were Electrocuted While Trying to Avoid Police

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By Molly MooreWashington Post Foreign ServiceWednesday, November 2, 2005; A15

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France, Nov. 1 -- Adel Benna tried to put himself in the shoesof his shy 17-year-old brother, Ziad, and two teenage friends who scaled a wall and

leapt into the cables of a power substation last Thursday evening -- willing to faceelectrocution rather than the French police officers they were trying to evade in thisimpoverished Paris suburb.

"Young people don't just throw themselves into an electrical current," Benna saidTuesday, his voice trembling in anger. "They looked behind them and saw somethingthat made them so terrified, so desperate, they did it out of absolute fear. I hate thepolice. They are responsible for my brother's death."

Ziad Benna and his friend Bouna Traore, 15, sons of working-class African Muslimimmigrants, were both electrocuted, setting off five days of rioting, firebombing andcar burning that continued here Tuesday. The third youth survived.

Groups of young men have attacked postal service vans and a police station, andset fire to trash bins during rampages that spread into neighboring suburban townsTuesday. The French news media reported that about three dozen law enforcementofficials and rioters have been injured in the violence.

On Tuesday morning, parking lots and street curbs were littered with hulks of dozensof burned vehicles.

The street fighting less than an hour's subway ride from the heart of Paris hasunderscored France's failed efforts to stem the growing unrest within a largelyMuslim immigrant population that feels disenfranchised and is beset by highunemployment and crime. An estimated 6 million Muslims live in France, many of

them in dismal high-rise enclaves like this one."It's unemployment, it's pressure -- it just exploded," Bouhout Abderrahmane, 54,who heads the local Muslim Cultural Association, said Tuesday morning, visiblyexhausted after an all-night effort to quell the continuing violence in this town.

Many residents were outraged Sunday night when a police tear gas canister wasthrown into a local mosque during prayers for Ramadan, the Muslim holy month. Anestimated 700 coughing and panicked worshipers ran for the doors.

Residents accused the police of deliberately attacking the mosque. French officialssaid they were investigating the incident, which occurred during police skirmisheswith youths near the place of worship, a white concrete box of a building attached to

a small grocery.The violence focused criticism on Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a prominentcandidate in the 2007 presidential stakes. The week before the youths' deaths, hehad announced "a war without mercy" on crime in the Paris suburbs.

Sarkozy, who has also called for affirmative action programs, fumbled in his initialresponse to the violence. He at first referred to the two dead boys as juveniledelinquents who were wanted in connection with a robbery, then amended that tosay they were suspected of vandalizing a construction site.

On Monday, during a visit to the nearby police station, he said the youths were "notcriminals" and had no criminal records, and promised a full investigation so that

"everyone will know the truth."



In response to the crime problem in the suburbs, Sarkozy said he would deploy morepolice on the streets and dispatch more undercover agents to penetrate criminalgangs. He said he would start an experimental program in Clichy-sous-Bois to mountvideo cameras atop police cars to record the actions of suspects and to show that"police are behaving properly" during arrests.

Residents say more police will only exacerbate tensions.

"People are fed up with being controlled by cops, being stopped over and over," saidJean-Jacques Eyquem, a 53-year-old taxi driver who has lived in this town of 28,000for most of his life.

"My brother paid the price of zero tolerance with his life," Adel Benna said in aninterview, referring to Sarkozy's anti-crime mantra.

According to Benna, his brother and two other friends had been playing a game of pickup soccer and were on their way home to break the daily Ramadan fast lastThursday when they spotted a police checkpoint. Officers there were demandingidentity papers, a common tactic in the high-crime neighborhoods of the Paris

suburbs.

One of the boys had left his papers at home, Benna said. Hungry and fearful of beingdragged into the police station after a day of fasting, Benna said, they tried to dodgethe checkpoint.

Witnesses told the family that police began chasing the boys, according to Bennaand other relatives. French officials have given several versions of the incident, withsome officials saying that although the youths were not pursued by police, theybelieved they were being chased, and panicked. The teenager who survived, the sonof Turkish immigrants, is undergoing surgery for severe burns, according to familymembers.

In a memorial march for the two youths over the weekend, a group of friends andneighbors wore white T-shirts emblazoned with the French words for "Dead for nothing."

Benna described his brother, Ziad, the youngest of five children, as "very shy, verynice, very helpful -- he was a good boy, the baby of the family."

Their father works for the city of Paris as a truck driver based just a block from theEiffel Tower, in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods. As he earned enoughmoney over the years, he brought members of his family from their native Tunisia tolive in the small apartment in a shabby, 11-story high-rise in Clichy-sous-Bois, whichmeans Clichy Under the Woods. All signs of woods disappeared decades ago.

Ziad, who arrived four years ago, was struggling to learn French in school, Bennasaid. In a community where 25 percent of all heads of household are unemployed,Ziad was thrilled that his high school teacher had arranged for him to start avocational training program this week, according to his brother.

Why Islam didn't conquer the worldOctober 30, 2005 1:06 am

ISLAM SUSTAINED, century-long rampage that would have wowed

Rommel, the Prophet Mohammed and his successors beginning in A.D.629 conquered not only Arabia, Persia, Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, but



also branded the crescent of Islam on lands formerly within the fold of aChristian Roman Empire then in ruins. In 709, Arab horsemen and theirallies crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Four short years later, Spainbelonged to the Empire of the Prophet.

In the summer of 732, the centennial of Mohammed's death, this veteran Islamic juggernaut, at least 80,000 strong with the skilled and popular general Abd er Rahman at its head, passed over the Pyrenees Mountains into what is now Franceto begin the conquest of "the Great Land"--Christian Europe. After that would comethe subjugation of whatever new worlds lay across the oceans.

Probably, Mr. Reader, you did not yesterday wash five times, face Mecca, sink toyour knees, and pray to Allah. Most likely, Ms. Reader, you did not cover yourself with a burka before venturing out to shop. Probably neither of you is giving up allfood between sunup and sundown during the ongoing monthlong Ramadan.

For freedom from all of these obligations, you might spare a minute sometime today,and every October, to say a silent "thank you" to a gang of half-savage Germans and

especially to their leader, Charles "The Hammer" Martel.When the Muslim horde thundered out of the Pyrenees, hardly breaking stride toslaughter one small army of river-crossing defenders, it was Martel and his wildFrankish troops who stood waiting for them just outside the shrine-city of Tours.

Abd er Rahman must have smirked. With irresistible fury, he and his predecessorsfor a century had rolled up one opposition force after another on three continents,suffering no serious setbacks. His cavalry, the very size and splendor of whichrobbed brave men of their hearts before the order to charge ever sounded, wasbattle-tested and motivated by god and gold: Riches filled the Abbey of St. Martin of Tours, then the holiest site in Christendom.

'Dreadful brotherhood'The poet Robert Southey in "Roderick" described the intruders as "a dreadfulbrotherhood of long success Elate, and proud of that o'er-whelming strength Whichsurely, they believed, as it had rolled Thus far uncheck'd, would roll victorious on Till,like the Orient, the subjected West Should bow in reverence to Mahommed's name;And pilgrims from remotest Arctic shores Tread with religious feet the burning sandsOf Araby and Mecca's stony soil.”

And to prevent this, what? A square of shaggy quasi-barbarians armed with swords,spears, and clubs. Perhaps Abd er Rahman's chief regret was that there were toofew of the outnumbered foe to go around.

But Martel was not the typical infidel jackleg general. A king's bastard son who hadto fight to hold his own after the death of his father, Martel had honed his martialskills both against other Frankish princes and pagan invaders from the right bank of the Rhine--in the words of British historian Sir Edward Creasy, "fierce tribes of theunconverted Frisians, Bavarians, Saxons, and Thuringians."

In these berserkers, Martel saw a later version of his own kith and kin. Only a fewgenerations earlier, it was his Germanic ancestors who had forded the river, torn off chunks of a dying Roman Empire, but, paradoxically and wholly unlike theconquering Arabs to the south, accepted the faith of those they slew anddispossessed.

Few details about the Battle of Tours survive. From what historians can glean fromChristian and Arab sources, it appears that for six days in October 732 the two



armies shifted and feinted. The weather grew colder. The Franks were dressed for it,the Muslims were not. Martel could afford to hold his ground. On a Saturday--the dayafter the Muslim holy day, when prayers were offered up to Mohammed on the 100thanniversary of his death and religious fervor reached its zenith--the Arab-led cavalryattacked.

Macabre polo

On occasion, brave, disciplined infantry in tight formation could turn back a cavalrycharge. It was when defensive phalanxes cracked and foot soldiers fled in pell-mellpanic that the fun for the mounted warrior began. In Abd er Rahman's case, his mensoon expected to be playing polo not with mallets and balls but with scimitars andheads.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the massacre. The Frankish square,though possibly penetrated, did not shatter. Martel's men stood fast, the spirit of Christ and Thor--a potent mix--fastening their feet to French sod.

The Muslim horsemen who fell in battle envisioned awakening in the heavenly arms

of beautiful virgins. Not bad as long-term R&R goes. But the Franks, Viking bloodcoursing in their veins, likely foresaw a Christo-barbaric afterlife equally appealing:crystal streams rippling across new battlefields where they could eternally ply their gory art, and streets of gold fronting mead halls where the beer was cold andwenches willing. (While this may be an unorthodox view of life beyond CheckpointPeter, be honest. It beats a 10-million-year harp concert, doesn't it?)

Matters went from bad to worse for the attackers when the rumor spread that someof the Franks were raiding the attackers' camp, looting the Muslim loot. As some of the cavalrymen sped back to their tents, others interpreted their movement as afrightened retreat--precisely what then ensued. In this chaos, Abd er Rahman wassurrounded by the enemy, who cut him down.

Leaderless, the Arab throng broke off the fight. "All the host fled before the enemy,"candidly wrote one Arab source, "and many died in the flight." A monk claimed thatthe ratio of Muslim to Christian dead was about 370:1. Even if he was exaggerating--a virtual certainty--the Islamic world took the loss hard. Muslim historians for centuries referred to Tours, notes Creasy, as "the deadly battle" and "the disgracefuloverthrow."

Never again did Islamic armies seriously threaten the Great Land of Gaul andbeyond. Martel spent the rest of his life crushing smaller bands of Arab interlopers.Eventually, the heroes of the reconquista threw the Moors out of Spain.

But if the Hammer had lost?Over the Rhine

In that case, the great historian Edward Gibbon foresaw this in store for a weak anddivided Europe:

"A victorious line of [Muslim] march had been prolonged above a thousand milesfrom the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal spacewould have carried the Saracens [Arabs] to the confines of Poland and theHighlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates,and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames."



Gibbon called those eight days in 732 "the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul [France], from the civil and religious yoke of theKoran."

Thus, Christianity might now exist in a few miserable oppressed enclaves--or not atall. In Persia, militant Islam overran a kingdom with a firmly established, 2,000-year-

old religion. Bumped into any Zoroastrians lately?

In the book "What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What MightHave Been," Barry Strauss of Cornell points out that an Islamicized Europe wouldhave meant that during the Age of Exploration, European sailing captains wouldhave planted not the Cross, but the Crescent, in the soil of the New World.

Even without overrunning Europe, Islam spread its faith and doctrine to parts of India, the Philippines, Thailand, and central Africa. Had Charles Martel faltered atTours, all of the largely Christian populations of Asia and Africa and South Americawould now, most likely, be solidly Muslim. "Today," writes Strauss, "there would onlybe one world religion: Islam."

And what sort of world would that be? Without the Christian quickening of conscience that helped abolish slavery in England, the United States, andelsewhere, the Quran-sanctioned institution might be the global norm. An Emir Ibrahim al-Lincoln would not have issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ever wonder at the hatred of Orthodox Christian Serbs for Muslim Bosnians? Onereason is that the ancestors of the former had to flee Constantinople when theMuslims overwhelmed the Christian East, killing or taking into bondage many whoremained. The seething anti-Islamic passions in the Balkans make sense when youconsider that the very name "Slav" comes from "slave."

Women the world over also would be permanent second-class citizens. Many if not

most--observe Saudi Arabia--would be forbidden to drive a car, own property, or vote. Battered females might well lack legal or other recourse.

Way of the world

Creasy argues also that the Martel victory "preserved the relics of ancient and thegerms of modern civilizations ." That is, in a Moslem Dominion, the ferment of the Middle Ages, which sparked the Enlightenment with all of its scientific, economic,and political fruits, would never have occurred. Look at the modern Islamic world:backward, unfree, poor--in sad fact, scarcely modern at all. This could be the state of all humankind if not for a Europe where, as Strauss notes, "church and state were[often] at loggerheads," helping form a culture that was, "compared to Islam,

decentralized, secularized, individualistic, profit-driven."Half-educated Christophobes who think the faith contributed nothing but superstitionand inventive torture to the human story should ponder Strauss' words. So shouldmodern zealots who would happily marry church and state.

Without the victory at Tours, there would be no suds-swinging Oktoberfest, noHalloween (because no All Hallows Eve), indeed little fun now or at any other time of the year under a Shari'a, or religious law, not noted for winking at petty vices.

And probably no comic books, the medium where I first learned of Charles Martel.He was summoned up by a character called Kid Eternity, who could invoke thespirits of dead heroes to help battle modern-day evil. Alas, in the school books in

which I hid my comics, I don't believe I ever read about Martel or Tours, the battlethat preserved the Christian flavor of Europe.



That flavor now wanes: Regular church attendance is very low in most Europeancountries. When cathedral bells ring in Amsterdam on Sunday morning, notes PennState's Philip Jenkins, the only citizens one sees walking to worship are black AfricanChristian immigrants, "clearly not terribly well-off, but each in his or her Sunday best,and everyone clutch[ing] a well-thumbed Bible."

Meanwhile, the continent's growing Muslim communities are united in faith if notfervor. Soon one in 10 Frenchmen may be Muslim, writes Jenkins, while Frankfurtalone contains 27 mosques.

Pray for Europe. But save a few prayers, too, for a band of bearded, coarse, butfaithful men who stood shoulder-to-shoulder in a cold dawn and faced proven deathgalloping full-speed toward them--only to unhorse that grim rider and break hisbones to bits.

Which is to say that if in the next life you can't find the Pearly Gates, just follow thesound of the loud German drinking songs. You'll get to the right place.

PAUL AKERS is editor of the opinion pages of The Free Lance-Star.

Immigration migraines for EuropeBy Claude SalhaniNov 5, 2005, 19:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- From Paris to Amsterdam and fromBrussels to Berlin, decades of liberal open-door immigration policies are bearingtheir mark on Europe`s domestic politics, not to mention the demographics of the OldContinent.

The arrival of several million immigrants -- mostly from North Africa, Turkey andSouthwest Asia, and mostly Muslims -- has forever changed the face of a once

largely white, overwhelmingly Christian Europe. Germany alone has some 7 millionnon-German residents, the majority of them Turks.

This influx of immigrants has caused a knee-jerk reaction from worried Europeanswho have turned to right-wing parties for answers. Witness France`s National Frontleader Jean-Marie Le Pen who came awfully close to winning the last presidentialelection.

The failure of many immigrants to integrate has resulted in communities livingparallel to one another instead of blending. Exacerbating the problem, Islamistactivists have found refuge and anonymity among these immigrant communities intowhich they can easily blend as has been the case in Britain, France The Netherlandsand other European countries.

Europeans today are quick to complain their cities have been transformed, many willargue not for the better. They will blame, often without justification but not entirelywithout base, much of what goes wrong -- rising crime, hooliganism, prostitution anddrugs -- on the new arrivals. Criminality in many of France`s suburban townships hasskyrocketed in recent years, with police forces unable to cope.

'Something need to be done about whom we let in,' is a complaint often heard inFrance.

Many Europeans bemoan that immigrants are not integrating. Alain Boyer, a former sous-prefet (regional administrator) of Reims is one of France`s leading experts onIslam. He agrees that not enough is being done culturally to integrate Muslims inEurope.



Boyer acquired his expertise while working for the French Ministry of the Interior, thegovernment department responsible for internal security. Boyer admits much more isneeded in educating Europe`s Muslims from a cultural perspective. Particularly theimams, says Boyer, should be made more aware of European culture. Of France`s1,200 imams -- or Muslim preachers -- more than a third do not speak French.

On Europe`s lax policies, Boyer told United Press International last December,'There should be more control on people [immigrants] and imams.' When they breakthe law, they should be sent away.'

But Boyer also advocates turning to more moderate Muslims, particularly theinfluential, and using their sway to positively influence the minds of Europe`s youngMuslims.

Britain`s Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have heeded this advise by appointingTariq Ramadan to a government taskforce working to root out Islamist extremists inEurope. Ramadan is the nephew of Hassan al-Bana, the founder of the MuslimBrotherhood. He has been accused by critics of sympathizing with radicals and is

banned from entering the United States and France because of his alleged viewssupporting violence. Ramadan strongly denies these allegations.

The large influx of immigrants arriving both legally and clandestinely has come withits fair share of social problems. Partially at fault is the failure of many of the newimmigrants to assimilate into their respective European societies.

Many European countries face similar problems in trying to integrate their immigrantpopulations. France, which has a long history of separating church and state, wasconfronted with the issue of Muslim schoolgirls wearing veils, or headscarves, inpublic schools. This was a practice that would have countered strict rules meant tokeep religion out of politics and state affairs, and vice versa.

After a tumultuous national debate peppered with street protests and demonstrationsby supporters and opponents of the headscarf ban, the state banned all outwardreligious signs, including Islamic headscarves, yarmulkes and 'large' crucifixes.

But far more worrisome than the headscarves has been the increase in Islamistactivism in recent years. According to Boyer, much of the recruiting of Islamistsoccurs in Europe`s jails.

Now officials in France are starting to suspect that organized Islamist groups couldwell have a hand in the nightly rioting by Muslim youths, now in its second week,affecting a slew of Parisian suburb ringing the French capital.

Those suburbs are heavily populated by Muslim and North African immigrants, or

their descendants, who now hold French citizenship, but feel left out of Frenchsociety.

By the weekend the violence had spread from Paris to Marseille, Rouen and Dijon.

Is Paris Burning?

By Anthony David Marks

(IHC News, 6 November 2005) Violence is not only raging in the north east suburbs

of Paris for the tenth consecutive night but has spread to many towns and citiesthroughout France. It reminds one of the famous 1944 World War II incident when



the general of the retreating German army of occupation was ordered by Hitler toburn down Paris. The French Resistance helped foiled the attempt (which theGerman general was reluctant to carry out anyway) by harassing German troops andplacing them on the defensive. Now there are others who would burn down Paris, if given the opportunity.

The widespread violence in France is the worst in living memory. The following citiesand towns have been reported by various news media as having experienced someform of violence in this ‘immigrant uprising’: Paris and suburbs, Lille, Rennes,Nantes, Avignon, Cannes, Nice, Evreux, Strasbourg, Rouen, Meaux, Dijon andMarseille but the list is not exhaustive. Many cars and other vehicles have beenburnt, buildings have been set on fire and police and firemen attacked. At present,street gangs control some areas of various cities and towns as the local police havebeen overwhelmed. There is talk of French troops being mobilized to take backcontrol of them.

Under the French veneer of projecting a ‘model society’ in which the French takespecial pride, there is seething resentment on the part of a not insignificant number of descendents of Arab and African immigrants who are unemployed, cannot find jobs and who are discriminated against because of their culture and also equallybecause many Arab/Muslims reject French culture. This time bomb was bound toerupt sooner or later. The problem is deep. It really is a clash of civilizations: Frenchmorals are at variance with fundamentalist Islamic ones and many of theArab/Muslim minorities hate and have contempt for French values. That is a problemwhich will not be rectified in a single generation and in the meantime something hadto give.

The attitude of the French Jewish population is a good barometer of the health of French society generally. Most French Jews love France and French culture, sowhen many choose to emigrate or talk about emigrating something is seriouslywrong in France.

The disturbing thing is how the violence could spread so quickly to locations all over France. Is it all spontaneous or is it the result of a well-organized plan to disrupt theFrench economy? For all of France’s pandering to the Arabs at the expense of Israelthroughout the years, it does not seem to have had any effect on the local French-Arab population which some estimate represents as much as 15% of the entirepopulation. Will other European countries with large Arab/Muslim minorities be

subjected to such an outbreak of violence?

Perhaps the Israeli experience will now be studied more objectively by Europeansand convince them not to be so smug.

As France Burns, Immigration Debate Rears its UglyHeadby Mac JohnsonPosted Nov 7, 2005



For 10 nights now, France has burned and spun. The fire has been provided byrioters, but the spin has been provided by the French government and themainstream media, both in Europe and in North America.

At first the riots were ignored, then portrayed as typical French-style protest, then asunderstandable acts of anger by an underclass made desperate by poverty, and

finally they are being reluctantly described for what they are: race riots.

Gangs of Arab and African Muslim men, the children and grandchildren of immigrants accepted into France following the collapse of her African empire, areconducting an intifada in the midst of Europe. It has escalated from shoving andshouting to stone throwing, then to arson of thousands of parked cars, then toassaults on civilians, firemen and paramedics, and finally, as of Sunday night, toshootings of police officers. The intifada is increasingly organized and has spread todozens of cities throughout France.

Apparently, while the intellectuals of Europe have moved past thinking of the world interms of “us” and “them,” a lot of the immigrants they have recruited to their

homelands have not. As a result, “assimilation” is suddenly more than just an SATword in media analyses the world over.

Obviously, the spontaneous army of Muslim “youths” burning Peugeots and nurseryschools in France has not been properly assimilated, it is reported. Following thisastute observation, it is usually added that France does not have America’s longhistory of successfully assimilating immigrants and that the French governmentneeds to do something about that. Preferably, it should do something teary-eyed,big-hearted and expensive—like build the vandals newer housing projects, expandthe already gargantuan French welfare state and celebrate Ramadan with aculturally sensitive postage stamp.

This is, however, among the dumbest combination of observations I have ever encountered, since America’s successful history of assimilation has absolutelynothing to do with any major government action on our part.

So how is it then, that America has successfully assimilated so many millions,without any special government-run assimilation centers or acculturation projects?What have we learned that Europe needs to know? And more importantly, have weforgotten a few things ourselves?

What follows is simply my opinion on this rather understudied and important topic. Itis not a 500-footnote thesis and it is not in any way incontrovertible. But it is aconsidered opinion based on my reading of history, my family experience and mypersonal observations after having lived in many different parts of America. Consider

this an invitation to further thought if you do not agree with it, because this issue willdetermine the future, if any, of the Western world during the next hundred years andthus begs for further thought.

A number of historical factors have favored immigrant assimilation in the UnitedStates. Many of these have since changed, but others have not. Likewise, some canbe made to apply in Europe, while others cannot. The most important of thesefactors, in my estimation (along with comments), are:

1) For much of our history, admission into America was regarded as a very rare andgenerous gift. This was primarily because it was a very rare and generous gift. Mostof the world did not, at the time, accept immigrants, or else accepted them only as

part of a servant underclass, never to be treated as equals. America, by contrast,



allowed entry to millions, and made obtaining full and equal citizenship a simple andstraightforward process.

This was striking to most immigrants, who came from lands where the connectionbetween blood and soil was centuries old and nearly immutable. This contrastinspired a sense of wonder and gratitude in many immigrants to America that

motivated them towards adopting the ways of their new homeland.

Today, admission into the U.S. (or another Western democracy) is regarded bymany as something between a civil right and an entitlement. Indeed, many seem tobelieve that the host population should be grateful to them for having arrived. Massimmigration is taken as a given. Little gratitude is thus inspired for new lives given sofreely. Many immigrants, therefore, arrive as colonists, wishing only to set up aslightly wealthier version of their homeland.

The idea that admission into another people’s homeland is an act of nearlyunbelievable trust and generosity needs to be restored, perhaps by announcing it assuch to new arrivals and deporting those who fail to acknowledge this.

2) America’s immigrants came from many different nationalities. Devolving into aworldview of immigrant vs. native was, therefore, not possible for any singleimmigrant group. “Us” and “immigrants” were not synonymous. The introducednationalities were each small in comparison to the host culture of native-bornAmericans, even though all immigrants combined were a large category. Thechildren of Swedish and Italian and German and Irish immigrants thus had to chooseto join the mainstream culture or else live in the relatively small world of their ethnicgroup.

In France, immigration has been heavily skewed toward Arab North Africans, whothus achieved the critical mass needed to form large self-contained cultural colonieswithin France.

3) America’s frontier mixed various ethnicities into new physical communities.Assimilation is favored by physical mixing. The many immigrants that disappearedinto America’s frontier lands were assimilated within a single generation in mostcases, because the children of immigrant and native-born grew up together as asingle community. By contrast, those immigrants that remained in ethnic ghettoes inlarge coastal cities assimilated much more slowly.

Neither Europe nor modern America has such a force favoring rapid juxtaposition of newcomer and native-born. There are no more frontiers. America, however, hassuch a vibrant pattern of land redevelopment and internal migration that considerableinvoluntary mixing is still encouraged.

In light of this observation, the practice in France (and elsewhere) of building hugesubsidized housing projects for the concentrated settlement of immigrants in distinctenclaves thus seems very unwise, if assimilation is the eventual goal.

4) English as a lingua franca, then and now. Both factors 3 and 4, above,encouraged people to not merely learn English quickly but also to forget the oldlanguage in only a generation or two, thus removing a major source of self-segregation. America’s assimilation has been a one-way street, in part, for thisreason. The preservation of the ancestral language encourages self-segregationbased on shared ancestry. Today, in all countries, Satellite TV in every languageimaginable and easy travel back to an immigrant’s home country slows this process.

Also, in the case of Europe’s Arab immigrants, there is a strong religious tie to theancestral language, further encouraging linguistic identity to be preserved.



On the other hand, the proliferation of English overseas, via television and movies,probably accelerates integration of some immigrants to the US, Britain, Australia,and Canada, who arrive already knowing English and some customs.

5) America was not really so diverse as we now remember. Until the mid-20thCentury, immigration to America occurred from a very restricted pool of nations. For

all our celebration of the great melting pot, America was mostly melting Europeanpeoples in that pot. These peoples shared a great deal of cultural inheritance beforeever setting foot in America. The gaps we formerly needed to bridge were thusrelatively small. Religious differences consisted primarily of differences in variousChristian sects. As much as it sometimes hurts to say it, a Frenchman and anAmerican have most things in common, as do most other European nationalities.

It is only recently that the West has begun experimenting with mixing peoples fromopposite sides of the Earth, with basic cultural incompatibilities and little sharedexperience. It can be done, especially where two geographically distant cultureshave evolved convergent beliefs. But it can also present problems on a scale that nonation has had much experience in resolving.

A consequence of the fact that most American immigrant groups were drawn fromthe same single continent is that they were not capable of being identified as“foreign” stock after being assimilated linguistically. Forced cultural segregation was,therefore, usually not practical. The one major exception to this rule—the easyphysical identification of people of African descent in the country—facilitatedsegregation by the predominant culture. In Europe, most descendants of immigrantsare readily identifiable racially, encouraging both self-segregation and forced (thoughnot legal) segregation via social exclusion.

6) The (now defunct) emphasis on individualism and limited government in Americanculture discouraged ethnic identity and political identity from merging. Ethnicity has

always played a strong role in America’s political life. But the spoils nature of modernwelfare states and the rise of identity politics has made ethnic identity and politicalself-interest intimately linked as never before. Democracy can easily degenerate intoa demographic team sport in which collective effort is rewarded, encouraging ethnicbalkanization and discouraging assimilation.

These factors demonstrate that America’s ability to assimilate millions of immigrantsover two centuries was not a result of sweeping government assimilation policiesand projects. Neither was it a magical result of some pro-assimilation impurity in our drinking water. It occurred for specific, if often fortuitous, reasons. Study of thesereasons can allow a society to encourage cultural assimilation and unity, if it sochooses. But because some of the reasons are politically uncomfortable to discuss, Ibelieve they will continue to be ignored.

If you want to admit and assimilate large numbers of immigrants into your country, itcan be done. Begin by choosing an immigrant pool as much like your existing cultureas feasible. Do not admit too many immigrants from a single source. Disperse theimmigrants into the general population—avoid ghettoes. Encourage a singlelanguage. And remind newcomers that admission into your country is a gift, not aright, and the gift carries with it certain obligations born of gratitude.

I can think of no European country that is following this proven formula for immigrantassimilation. But they should not feel bad, because the United States seems ot haveabandoned it as well.



The Problem of Muslims in Western CountriesBy Micah HalpernParis.

The Eiffel Tower. The Louvre. Croissants. Gardens, gargoyles, garrets. It used to bethat when you thought of Paris, your thoughts turned to old movies and romance.Until the night of October 27th.

That's when the riots began. That was when two young men, apparently believingthat they were being chased by police, ran into an electric substation transformer and were electrocuted.

And the riots have continued. Who are the rioters? They are mostly Muslim/Arabyouths, disenfranchised, dejected, feeling themselves rejected by mainstreamsociety. And they have taken over the streets of Paris.

Surprised? You shouldn't be. Not when you put it all in context.

Muslims are the first immigrants to enter France since the famous French Revolutionof 1789 with the intention of transforming the country rather than of beingtransformed themselves into authentic French mesdames and messieurs.

Muslims believed that they could not only retain their own identity, but also turnFrance into a Muslim stronghold. For two and a half centuries immigrants made their way into France and made France their home by becoming French, not by denyingeverything that is France. Until the wave of Muslim immigration began, each group of immigrants contributed to a larger France by adding their own unique and

specialized subculture to the overall French culture. No one ever believed that theywere changing France, no one wanted to change France. They were becomingFrenchmen. Their children would be truly French. Until the Muslim/Arabs arrived.

Muslim immigration is spreading into all parts of Europe. And the problems thatMuslims are facing in France are the same problems that Muslims will face in eachcountry they enter. It is the larger problem of Islam in Europe.

Muslims entering France have been taught to distrust the country they are enteringand hoping to call home. Muslim clerics speak of the evils of Western culture and of French culture. As they establish their communities Muslims erect barriers

preventing a true assimilation into France. Rather than absorbing French culture theyseek to convert the French to their own religion cum culture. They strive to turnFrance into a Muslim state.

And they have met with resistance. And it has had a strong, deleterious effect onMuslim youth living in France today.

France is not rejecting these kids, the kids are rejecting France. That is an importantdistinction, a distinction that is lost in the power of the riots. This is not the beginningof a revolution, it is youthful expression of frustration. These are not just kids whohave lost all hope because they are forced to live in crime-ridden communities and to

work dead end jobs, kids left behind by mainstream society. These are kids taught tobuck mainstream society. They have been weaned on a mistrust of the French,



raised to reject that which could so easily be theirs.

I am no big defender of the French. But I respect their place in history. France is thefounder of modern democracy, the home of the revolution that brought freedom andemancipation to the Western world. France will survive this minor insurrection. No

doubt the liberal state of France will clamp down. The right wing National Front hasalready made their opinions known. They will find a way to solve the problem.

France is not in danger of becoming a Muslim state. Actually, France is one of themost aggressively xenophobic societies in Europe. They will not allow themselves tobecome Muslim because their liberal democracy and their very French character andcharm are too important. France will not self-destruct in the name of democracy.They will, however, shoot down their potential encroachers.

To be French is to love liberte, to understand fraternite and to be willing to grantegalite. If or when the Muslim/Arab community is ready, the French will be there for

them. Until then, they will be rejected. Not only in FranceGLOBAL JIHAD

Muslim rioters start

12th night of chaosImmigrants in France set fire to bus, throw firebombs, rocks at policemen

Beginning a 12th night of riots and violence, Muslim immigrants in France set fire toan empty bus today in the southern city of Toulouse and threw firebombs and rocksat law enforcement personnel.

Rioting yesterday spread to 300 towns as the nation endured its 11th straight nightof unrest, with as many as 36 policemen injured, 10 of whom were shot.

The first fatality also was reported today when a man beaten by an attacker whiletrying to extinguish a trash can fire died of his injuries.

Yesterday, a Molotov cocktail "factory" was discovered by police just outside Paris,1,400 vehicles were burned, and rioters were reported to have fired shotguns andhunting rifles on police for the first time since the uprising began.

French President Jacques Chirac promised arrest, trials and punishment for thosesowing "violence or fear" as police and rioters clashed south of Paris and in other

towns around the capital.

Ten riot police were wounded, two seriously, in fighting with 250 to 300 youths inGrigny. Across the country, rioters pelted Molotov cocktails at cars and a school, andfirefighters in some areas worked under police escort.

In Evry, south of Paris, police discovered what they called "a Molotov cocktailfactory" in an unused police station. Six teenagers were arrested. Significant suppliesof gasoline were found and about 150 bottles, a third of them filled and ready to beused, were seized.



On Saturday night, mostly North African rioters torched nearly 1,300 vehicles andtorched businesses, schools and symbols of French authority, including post officesand provincial police stations. The violence spread to Paris for the first time.

But the intensity of the attacks escalated once again last night.

"The law must have the last word," Chirac said in his first public address on theviolence. France is determined "to be stronger than those who want to sow violenceor fear, and they will be arrested, judged and punished."

The president, who spoke after a security meeting with top ministers, said Francewould promote "respect for all, justice and equal opportunities."

"But there is a precondition, a priority, I repeat," Chirac said. "That is the restoring of security and public order."

Violence has broken out in Strasbourg in the east, Toulouse in the south west,Nantes in the west and Avignon, Nice and Cannes in the south and in the northerntown of Evreux in Normandy.

Gangs threw gasoline bombs at a local school and four police officers were injured inclashes with youths, some of them reportedly armed with baseball bats.

In Paris last night, police helicopters could be heard overhead as 2,300 policepatrolled the capital in an attempt to pursue and identify those responsible for theattacks.

According to a Reuters report, the Action Police CFTC union urged the Frenchgovernment to impose a curfew in areas hit by the riots and call in the army to

control the crowds."Nothing seems to be able to stop the civil war that spreads a bit more every dayacross the whole country," the CFTC said in a statement. "The events we're livingthrough now are without precedent since the end of the Second World War."

The mayhem began 11 nights ago as isolated violence in one impoverished Parissuburb. It is now seen as a nationwide crisis – France's worst civil unrest since May1968.

Authorities say drug traffickers and Islamic militants are helping to organize theunrest, via the internet and mobile phones, among the black North African

immigrant communities who make up a significant part of many poor suburbanhousing estates. French Muslim authorities yesterday issued a fatwa – a religiousedict – against the riots.

But Dalil Boubakeur, the head of the French Muslim Council and leader of thelargest mosque in Paris, seemed to blame the government for the continuingviolence.

"What I want from the authorities, from Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister andsenior officials, are words of peace," he said.

Sarkozy has been widely criticized for his "warlike" language in which he referred to

rioters as "scum" and vowed to "clean up" the suburbs.



Neighboring Germany, also with a large Muslim immigrant population, mostly of Turkish origin, was watching the horror unfold in France with alarm.

Wolfgang Bosbach, the deputy leader of the conservative Christian Democrats in theGerman parliament, told a Sunday newspaper: "There are differences between the

situation in France and here, but we should not be under the illusion that similarevents could not happen in Germany."

In Italy, Romano Prodi, the opposition leader, called on the government to takeurgent action, telling reporters: "We have the worst suburbs in Europe. I don't thinkthings are so different from Paris. It's only a question of time."

Denmark has also been hit with what is being characterized as its own "IslamicIntifada." In Arhus, Denmark, young Muslims were heard chanting, "This land

belongs to us!"

A masked spokesman for the rioters told Danish reporters that Muslims were tired

of being oppressed and harassed and warned the police to stay away.

"This is our area. We rule this place," he said.

The unrest in France began Oct. 27 by the apparently accidental deaths of twoteenagers of African origin, Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17, who wereelectrocuted in the rundown Paris suburb of Clichy sous Bois after hiding in anelectricity sub station. Locals say they were being pursued by police after a robbery,

but French authorities have denied this.

Since then, more than 3,500 cars have been set on fire and 800 people arrested asnight riots have spread from Paris suburbs to other cities including Toulouse,Rennes and Lille. Schools, public offices and businesses have been burned.

France’s 17th Straight Night of ViolenceNovember 12, 2005 03:43 PM EST

By Sher Zieve – It is being reported that on Saturday night Muslim

rioters have begun their 17th consecutive night of violence and mayhem.Rioters are said to have moved from the suburbs into Paris.

Paris police in riot gear battle the insurgents, as they work to protect France’snational monuments. Last week, Internet messages urged the rioters to move fromthe poorer areas of France into Paris, in order to wreak havoc.

Muslim rioting

Turning a blind eye to the EurabianIntifadaby Klaus RohrichSaturday, November 19, 2005



With the Eurabian Intifada still going strong, pundits and politicians are undergoingstrenuous intellectual contortions in an effort to ignore the obvious. France’s PrimeMinister, Dominic de Villepin, has proclaimed that the rioting in that country is secular in nature, not religious, despite evidence that the rioters are almost exclusivelyMuslims. In his proclamation, De Villepin promises the French government will do

more of what it has been doing to bring about the riots in the first place--namelyspend more money on social programs and welfare.

President Jaques Chirac went one further and blamed the whole thing on racism,calling for a collective effort to help stamp it out. "We can build nothing lasting if weallow racism, intolerance and abuse," he told a television audience. "We can buildnothing lasting unless we fight this poison for society that is discrimination." That’sthe moral equivalent of surrendering, something for which the French seem to havesomewhat of a reputation.

What Mr. Chirac fails to understand when he calls for giving jobs to individuals whohave "non-French names, a suburban postal code, or the wrong skin color", is thatFrance isn’t capable of giving these people jobs because their economy has tankeddue to confiscatory taxation, prohibitive payroll taxes and overregulation.

While there is almost no mention of the concomitant Intifada in Denmark by theformer mainstream media, that country has also seen nearly two weeks’ worth of nightly rioting along with the attendant mayhem and arson. The Danish rioting wassparked by the publication of a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammedin the Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper. The reason the paper published thesecartoons in the first place was the result of a Danish author complaining that hecould find no artists that would illustrate his book about Mohammed. Consequentlythe Jyllands-Posten sent out requests to 40 Danish illustrators to submit illustrationsof Mohammed. Of the 40 only 12 sent in drawings that the paper subsequently

published.The result was outrage among the Muslim community and 5,000 took to the streetsin protest against the publication. The protests were followed by nights of rioting bymostly Muslim youth in Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city.

"This land belongs to us." The rioters screamed, driving police and firefighters awayfrom the RosenhØj Mall, which was the scene of the worst rioting. Fires were set byMolotov cocktails and special police had to escort fire trucks to the scene so that thefires could be fought.

Rioters used cobblestones to smash store windows, while the police reported thatthe rioters showed up with the cobblestones in their bags. Clearly these riots were

pre-planned and well co-ordinated. During media interviews the apparent leaders of the riots said "We have planned this for three weeks. That’s why only two werearrested on Saturday. Police tried to block us in, but we know how to get out."

In Holland, filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, a relative of the famous artist, was gunneddown in the street and then had his throat slashed by an irate Muslim who objectedto Van Gogh’s film about the treatment of Muslim women under Islamic law.

Then there are the infamous 7/7 terrorist subway and bus bombings in London,which killed 56 people and the notorious 3/11 commuter train bombings in Spain.

What do all these events as well as numerous others have in common? They are allperpetrated by Muslim immigrants or their offspring who object to Western culture

and mores. The other thing they have in common is that these actions are glossedover by media and politicians who are fearful of rocking the boat. They would rather



blame the victims of this violence rather than its perpetrators in their efforts tomaintain their status as being politically correct.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Andres Fogh Rasmussen was quick to absolve the riotersof the label "terrorists", and Danish police said they had no plans to stop the riotingother than to initiate "dialogue and peaceful negotiations" with the rioters.

Numerous pundits around the world have opined that the disturbances in Eurabiaare not "revolutionary" in nature, but are brought about through frustration anddespair due to poverty and discrimination. One pundit I read in one of the weekendpapers posited that these disturbances are more in line with what Anthony Burgessdescribed in his book A Clockwork Orange. His thesis was that these were basichooligans who are behaving like Burgess’s Droogs, instead of the harbingers of aMuslim revolution.

In my opinion, the pundits and politicians who make excuses for the civil unrest areas big a part of the problem as the perpetrators of the unrest. In their desire to laythe blame at society’s feet, they fail to confront the ugly truths now facing the West

and Europe in particular. As time progresses, the civil unrest will only get worse, notbetter.

Currently the population of France is about 10% Muslim, which on the surface is aclear minority. This trend is pretty well consistent throughout the rest of Europewhere unassimilated Muslim immigrants are a clear minority. However, the averageage of the majority is somewhere in the late 40s while that of the minority is in theearly 20s. In addition, indigenous Europeans have ceased to reproduce and eachyear as their numbers shrink due to attrition, those of the unassimilated immigrantsgrow because they have a vibrant birth rate.

What we are seeing today in France and Denmark is the harbinger of a larger conflagration that will consume Europe and forever change its face. The solutionsoffered by the "poet" Prime Minister of France would only accelerate that process, asit will do nothing to integrate their immigrants into the mainstream. On the contrary, itappears that France now has its own two "solitudes". Native Frenchmen fear their immigrants as being "uncivilized fanatics" and Muslim immigrants have no use for French culture, as it runs contrary to all their social and religious traditions.

What they need in Europe isn’t "more tolerance and less racism". How tolerant canone get? What’s really needed are more cops and prisons to convey the messagethat equality under the law means just that whether you’re white, black, Christian or Muslim.

Two weeks ago I wrote in these pages that the rioting in Europe essentially proved

that multiculturalism was a truly bad idea. I closed my article with the following:

"If we want to see what Toronto or Montreal will look like in 15 to 20 years, I wouldsuggest a visit to Paris, the City of Light. The light you’ll find is likely that thrown off by burning automobiles."

I received several emails from readers who took issue with my point of view. Theessential arguments being that Canada is different from Europe, we’re better thanthey are, we can absorb more immigrants, we’re nicer people, you’re racist(Orientalist, actually) and don’t worry, be happy.

Turning a blind eye to the perils that confront us will make them no less perilous.Instead of pretending that Europe’s problems aren’t really problems, we might be

well advised to see what we can learn from them.



Now churches are targetedNick Leys and Dan BoxDecember 15, 2005

FOUR churches in Sydney's southwest have been attacked in 24 hours as the city'sriots spread from race to religion.

A community hall linked to a Uniting church was burned to the ground earlyyesterday, carol-singers were spat on and church buildings peppered with gunfire.

In response, members of the Arab Christian and Arab Muslim communities havecalled for a curfew for all Lebanese youths over the weekend.

Police believe the attack on the hall, in the suburb of Auburn, was intended todestroy the Uniting church next door, while nearby StThomas's Anglican Church,which has a primarily Chinese congregation, had all its front windows smashed.

Three of the attacks were on churches within minutes of each other. The nightbefore, Molotov cocktails were used in an attack on an Anglican church in MacquarieFields in the city's far southwest.

Arab Christians have suggested the attacks on churches may have been meant as aviolent attempt to "shame" the city's Lebanese Christian community into supportingLebanese Muslims in the race-hate war, which began as a battle against youngwhite males over use of suburban beaches.

Community leaders said Lebanese youths should not venture out after 9pm onFriday and Saturday, and should stay home all day on Sunday.

"Those who violate the curfew will be doing so in defiance of their faith, of the law

and their community leaders. We are all united in opposing violence," LebaneseMuslim Association leader Ahmad Kamaledine said.

Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen welcomed the call for a curfew. "We mustremember that it is first of all in the home that we learn to respect and care for others," he said.

"So I trust that all parents will join these community leaders in encouraging their ownyoung people to exhibit mature and thoughtful respect for other people at all times."

Despite the call for a curfew, the state Government, police, community and religiousleaders were bracing for a violent clash between opposing ethnic groups over theweekend.

The church attacks prompted NSW Premier Morris Iemma to yesterday assign extrapolice to monitor places of worship.

Mr Iemma said police would pay special attention to churches, schools and churchhalls. "We have to be on guard for this, and these hooligans and criminals will notdestroy the fabric of our society," he said.

A heavy police presence was again ordered last night as the suburb of Cronulla - thescene of race-related violence on Sunday - began a second night of lock-down andpolice roadblocks.

During a tour of the command post set up in the Sydney Police Centre to co-ordinate

the crisis, Deputy Commissioner Andrew Scipione told Mr Iemma the situation wasbeing treated as if it were a terror attack.



"We are running the same command and control centre as we would for a terroristsituation," Mr Scipione said.

Elsewhere in Sydney, two men were attacked in separate incidents by men wieldingbats and golf clubs and asking their victims if they were Australian.

Steve Stanton, a spokesman for the Maronite Catholic Church in Australia, said hethought the shooting outside a carol service in South Auburn on Monday night wasthe responsibility of a "very small minority" of fanatics within the wider Muslimcommunity.

"There is also a view that it will have been done with a view to shaming theLebanese for not standing united," he said.

Amjad Mehboob, head of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, said hebelieved the violence had been committed by an extremist fringe of the Muslimcommunity. "I wish we knew who they were. I wish we could engage with them so wecan find out what their beliefs are, so we can deal with them," he said.

"This is something that started out as a minor scuffle between some youths and acouple of life-savers that has suddenly become an issue of racism and religion.Buildings can be rebuilt, but the damage this is doing to our community is extremelydeep."

Reverend Glenys Biddle, of the Uniting church in Auburn, said the destroyed hall hadbeen a important part of the local Tongan community. "For them, they have lost notonly a physical building but a sense of fellowship," she said. "A lot of memories havealso been lost for Anglos, Tongans and people of all sorts of cultures."

Shafiq Khan, the principal of the al-Faisal College next door, said Christians andMuslims had always worked amicably, and the fire - coupled with the fear it maypromote - was a loss for both religions. "This is a crime against peace, the

community and the country; a crime against harmony and against our children, whoused the hall," he said.

Television and sporting celebrities and leaders from Sutherland Shire and the Islamiccommunity will hold a meeting this morning, brokered by local MP Bruce Baird, to tryto settle their differences.

Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Jonathan Porter

deport muslim rioters or treat them as enemies of the state

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