Thursday, March 29, 2007

Jacques and Pierre are at it again

From reading this story in the New York Times, one would think that the French have a real problem with their unruly youth. Is it the cheese? Is it their pretentious parents and their overpriced wine? Is it the lack of a focus on personal grooming and hygiene? No, I'm afraid the problem cannot truly be ascertained by this or any other mainstream media article, because they're afraid to call the problem what it really is: a Muslim problem. These "youths" terrorizing Paris are the children of Muslim immigrants or they're Muslim immigrants themselves. They refuse, as Muslims do the world over, to assimilate into the culture of their new country, and now they are lashing out. You remember, of course, the major riots of 2005. France's Muslim problem is not an anomaly in Western Europe. It won't belong before the "youths" wreak havoc on the rest of the continent (it's already happening to some degree). I'm sure we'll all lack the guts to call a spade a spade then, too.

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