French Muslim rioters misunderstood, just want to be loved
The Associated Press is reporting that rioting has spread to 300 towns in France. Note to Associated Press: 300 towns is not a riot — it’s a general uprising. AP says that “Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured…”
Ace of Spades points out the Washington Post headline: Rage of French Youth is a Fight for Recognition.
Apparently all these rioters just want attention. The poor young things feel rejected by a cold and callous society:
“We feel rejected, compared to the kids who live in better neighborhoods,” said Nasim, a chunky 16-year-old with braces and acne. “Everything here is broken down and abandoned. There’s no place for the little kids to go.”
I had acne, too, when I was 16. But you know what? My parents were the intolerant sort who frowned on the idea of me burning down cars and schools and shooting at police officers.
“We want to change the government,” he said, a black baseball cap pulled low over large, chocolate-brown eyes and an ebony face. “There’s no way of getting their attention. The only way to communicate is by burning.”
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“It’s not a political revolution or a Muslim revolution,” said Rezzoug. “There’s a lot of rage. Through this burning, they’re saying, ‘I exist, I’m here.’ “
Oh, yeah? So how many Lutherans are starting fires in Paris?
This is a good example of why the mainstream media is irrelevant — they print what they know are bald-faced lies in order to create a certain mindset in their readers.According to the mainstream media, culture doesn’t matter and neither does the violent teachings of religious leaders. Shoot, that’s why I get nervous driving to the area of heavily-Jewish North Dallas. I live in fear of angry gangs of balding, middle-aged Jewish doctors (whose accountants don’t understand them) chasing me down and forcing me to eat potato pancakes. Oh, the humanity!
In the first Star Trek series, Captain Kirk shot anything he didn’t understand unless they were beautiful alien women, in which case he had an affair with them. Sometimes the beautiful alien women turned to be bad, so he shot them anyway.
just misunderstood.
Then came the touchy-feely Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this show, the French Captain Jean-Luc Picard was as politically correct as Alan Alda. They should have named the show Therapy in Space. Picard’s adviser Counselor Troi was an empath who could read the minds of aliens. And you know what? The aliens were never bad, just misunderstood. The Klingons weren’t murderous thugs, they were just trying to get attention the only way they knew how — by blowing up planets with billions of inhabitants. Poor misunderstood Klingons. The only bad people on the show were those who just didn’t understood that Klingons wanted to be loved.
So the French youth (be sure not to identify them as Muslim) are rioting because they don’t have nice things. Has it ever occurred to one of the little geniuses that if they stop burning down crap they would have nicer things?
Comments
One side of me agrees wholeheartedly with the author. I am sick and tired of the violence associated with muslim groups.
That frustration having been expressed…
Imagine that from the age of five, you are expected to get up and go to school to learn many things that will prepare you to one day join the workforce.
Then, the end of all that preparation, you end up instead with no place to work, no place to go… no opportunity for developing a meaningful future. What then do you do with yourself for the day? It slowly becomes apparent that you will not have the means to support a family, so you can’t have one. It’s a formula for depression (internalized) or rage (externalized).
Governments these days don’t seem to recognize that people have the need to work and contribute to their community. Part time employment might relieve tensions quite a bit, but there is a tendency to only have full time plus employees and work these people to death.
Governments should be about people, not just money and efficiency.
Posted by: P. Moseley | November 7, 2005 03:19 PM