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jusqu'ou est ce que cela peut aller, il semble qu'en france a l'heure actuelle, le ras le bol soit son paroxisme:

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/18821

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WHY PARIS IS BURNING

by Amir Taheri

New York Post

November 4, 2005

PHOTO 'The Chirac administration…appears to be clueless about how to cope with…a "ticking time bomb." '

Bands of youths in balaclavas start by setting fire to parked cars, break shop windows with baseball bats, wreck public telephones and ransack cinemas, libraries and schools. When the police arrive on the scene, the rioters attack them with stones, knives and baseball bats.

The police respond by firing tear-gas grenades and, on occasions, blank shots in the air. Sometimes the youths fire back — with real bullets.

These scenes are not from the West Bank but from 20 French cities, mostly close to Paris, that have been plunged into a European version of the intifada that at the time of writing appears beyond control.

The troubles first began in Clichy-sous-Bois, an underprivileged suburb east of Paris, a week ago. France's bombastic interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, responded by sending over 400 heavily armed policemen to "impose the laws of the republic," and promised to crush "the louts and hooligans" within the day. Within a few days, however, it had dawned on anyone who wanted to know that this was no "outburst by criminal elements" that could be handled with a mixture of braggadocio and batons.

By Monday, everyone in Paris was speaking of "an unprecedented crisis." Both Sarkozy and his boss, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, had to cancel foreign trips to deal with the riots.

How did it all start? The accepted account is that sometime last week, a group of young boys in Clichy engaged in one of their favorite sports: stealing parts of parked cars.

Normally, nothing dramatic would have happened, as the police have not been present in that suburb for years.

The problem came when one of the inhabitants, a female busybody, telephoned the police and reported the thieving spree taking place just opposite her building. The police were thus obliged to do something — which meant entering a city that, as noted, had been a no-go area for them.

Once the police arrived on the scene, the youths — who had been reigning over Clichy pretty unmolested for years — got really angry. A brief chase took place in the street, and two of the youths, who were not actually chased by the police, sought refuge in a cordoned-off area housing a power pylon. Both were electrocuted.

Once news of their deaths was out, Clichy was all up in arms.

With cries of "God is great," bands of youths armed with whatever they could get hold of went on a rampage and forced the police to flee.

The French authorities could not allow a band of youths to expel the police from French territory. So they hit back — sending in Special Forces, known as the CRS, with armored cars and tough rules of engagement.

Within hours, the original cause of the incidents was forgotten and the issue jelled around a demand by the representatives of the rioters that the French police leave the "occupied territories." By midweek, the riots had spread to three of the provinces neighboring Paris, with a population of 5.5 million.

But who lives in the affected areas? In Clichy itself, more than 80 percent of the inhabitants are Muslim immigrants or their children, mostly from Arab and black Africa. In other affected towns, the Muslim immigrant community accounts for 30 percent to 60 percent of the population. But these are not the only figures that matter. Average unemployment in the affected areas is estimated at around 30 percent and, when it comes to young would-be workers, reaches 60 percent.

In these suburban towns, built in the 1950s in imitation of the Soviet social housing of the Stalinist era, people live in crammed conditions, sometimes several generations in a tiny apartment, and see "real French life" only on television.

The French used to flatter themselves for the success of their policy of assimilation, which was supposed to turn immigrants from any background into "proper Frenchmen" within a generation at most.

That policy worked as long as immigrants came to France in drips and drops and thus could merge into a much larger mainstream. Assimilation, however, cannot work when in most schools in the affected areas, fewer than 20 percent of the pupils are native French speakers.

France has also lost another powerful mechanism for assimilation: the obligatory military service abolished in the 1990s.

As the number of immigrants and their descendants increases in a particular locality, more and more of its native French inhabitants leave for "calmer places," thus making assimilation still more difficult.

In some areas, it is possible for an immigrant or his descendants to spend a whole life without ever encountering the need to speak French, let alone familiarize himself with any aspect of the famous French culture.

The result is often alienation. And that, in turn, gives radical Islamists an opportunity to propagate their message of religious and cultural apartheid.

Some are even calling for the areas where Muslims form a majority of the population to be reorganized on the basis of the "millet" system of the Ottoman Empire: Each religious community (millet) would enjoy the right to organize its social, cultural and educational life in accordance with its religious beliefs.

In parts of France, a de facto millet system is already in place. In these areas, all women are obliged to wear the standardized Islamist "hijab" while most men grow their beards to the length prescribed by the sheiks.

The radicals have managed to chase away French shopkeepers selling alcohol and pork products, forced "places of sin," such as dancing halls, cinemas and theaters, to close down, and seized control of much of the local administration.

A reporter who spent last weekend in Clichy and its neighboring towns of Bondy, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Bobigny heard a single overarching message: The French authorities should keep out.

"All we demand is to be left alone," said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local "emirs" engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities.

President Jacques Chirac and Premier de Villepin are especially sore because they had believed that their opposition to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 would give France a heroic image in the Muslim community.

That illusion has now been shattered — and the Chirac administration, already passing through a deepening political crisis, appears to be clueless about how to cope with what the Parisian daily France Soir has called a "ticking time bomb."

It is now clear that a good portion of France's Muslims not only refuse to assimilate into "the superior French culture," but firmly believe that Islam offers the highest forms of life to which all mankind should aspire.

So what is the solution? One solution, offered by Gilles Kepel, an adviser to Chirac on Islamic affairs, is the creation of "a new Andalusia" in which Christians and Muslims would live side by side and cooperate to create a new cultural synthesis.

The problem with Kepel's vision, however, is that it does not address the important issue of political power. Who will rule this new Andalusia: Muslims or the largely secularist Frenchmen?

Suddenly, French politics has become worth watching again, even though for the wrong reasons.

Amir Taheri, editor of the French quarterly "Politique internationale," is a member of Benador Associates.

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In parts of France, a de facto millet system is already in place. In these areas, all women are obliged to wear the standardized Islamist "hijab" while most men grow their beards to the length prescribed by the sheiks.

:icon_up:

Où ça, "parts of France" ?

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  melodius a dit :
:doigt:

Où ça, "parts of France" ?

C'est probablement les mêmes endroits que ceux-ci:

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In some areas, it is possible for an immigrant or his descendants to spend a whole life without ever encountering the need to speak French, let alone familiarize himself with any aspect of the famous French culture.

J'ai fait mon enquête. Il s'agit de l'épicerie "Aït Belkas Khadija", sise à Noisy le Grand dans le 93 :icon_up:

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Mais c'est un vrai feu d'artifices de blagues, ce fil :icon_up:

Tenez, j'en profite pour en rajouter une bien bonne:

Meurtre à Epinay :

trois interpellations

NOUVELOBS.COM | 01.11.05 | 13:36

Un homme de 46 ans a été tabassé à mort jeudi dans une cité HLM d'Epinay-sur-Seine après avoir pris des clichés de lampadaires dans le cadre de son travail.

Trois hommes ont été interpellés vendredi 28 octobre après la mort dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi d'un homme d'une cinquantaine d'années battu à coups de poings et de pieds par plusieurs jeunes, à Epinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), selon une source proche du dossier.

Ils ont été placés en garde à vue à la brigade criminelle chargée de l'enquête. Ce service tente de déterminer si ces hommes sont ceux vus sur la vidéosurveillance de la ville.

Deux des trois hommes arrêtés seraient les auteurs des coups, selon des premiers éléments de l'enquête. Ils auraient été identifiés par des témoins.

D'après le quotidien Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France, Jean-Claude Irvoas, 46 ans, a été roué de coups jeudi après-midi par trois individus dans le quartier Orgemont, "sous les yeux de sa femme et de sa fille, qui l'attendaient dans sa voiture".

Consultant de l'entreprise havraise ETI, qui fabrique des lampadaires antivandalisme, il était venu à Epinay-sur-Seine pour photographier ces équipements in situ et les présenter ensuite à d'autres clients potentiels.

Selon les premiers éléments d'enquête, il a eu l'oeil attiré par des lampadaires d'aspect novateur.

Il est descendu de voiture et a décidé de les prendre en photos.

Il a alors été agressé par plusieurs personnes, des jeunes gens de la cité, selon des témoignages, au moins quatre à cinq personnes.

Ces dernières lui auraient demandé de quitter les lieux, toujours selon les premiers témoignages, et de ne pas prendre de photos.

"Massacré"

Le ton serait vite monté, dans des circonstances qui restent à préciser. Certains des jeunes auraient en outre tenté de se saisir, en vain, de son appareil photo.

"Tout est parti très vite et de manière très confuse", selon une source policière.

Jean-Claude Irvoas a été roué de coups de poings et de pieds. Il a fait un arrêt cardiaque, a été soigné sur place puis transporté, dans un état jugé très sérieux, à l'hôpital Delafontaine à Saint-Denis, non loin de la cité d'Orgemont. Il est décédé peu après, dans la nuit, sans avoir pu être ranimé.

La police avait précisé jeudi qu'il avait été "massacré", des enquêteurs évoquant plus pudiquement vendredi un "véritable passage à tabac aux conséquences dramatiques" et "sous le regard de sa famille". "Personne ne lui est venu en aide", selon ces mêmes sources policières.

On en rit encore !! :doigt:

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  Sous-Commandant Marco a dit :
Certains en concluront que les banlieues sont pleines d'illuminés.

C'est sans doute pour cela que les français n'arrêtent pas de faire référence au Siècle des Lumières.

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  Constantin_H a dit :
C'est sans doute pour cela que les français n'arrêtent pas de faire référence au Siècle des Lumières.

Bah, ça nous permet de faire des économies d'énergie. Pas besoin de mettre des lampadaires sur les autoroutes par exemple. Cela dit, la question est de savoir si les lumières brillent encore.

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C'est le seul endroit depuis lequel on pourrait en voir autant d'un coup. Vu de plus près (du guichet par exemple), le préposé se fait plus invisible.

Invité jabial
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Je pense que quelques mois de travaux forcés sur une chaîne de montage automobile ne seraient pas une mauvaise idée pour les brûleurs de voitures…

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  Constantin_H a dit :
C'est sans doute pour cela que les français n'arrêtent pas de faire référence au Siècle des Lumières.

Là je crains qu'on ne rentre dans le siècle des Ténèbres…

A moins que les Français, de quelque origine qu'ils soient, n'aient un sursaut de lucidité…

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