Monday, November 7, 2005, 10:26:02 PM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote: Jac> Hmmm...and how about petrol bombing and burning nursery Jac> school buildings, post offices, and Churches? Or shooting Jac> police officers? It's serious all right, these people aren't juvenile pranksters. Abd al Malik was on Newsnight tonight -- it came from Paris -- the program's online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm this is him: http://www.loyolaphoenix.com/media/paper673/news/2005/10/05/Nationworld/Muslim.Rapper.Gives.Voice.To.Frances.Public.Housing-1009430.shtml http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-fg-projects27sep27,1,1811254,full.story?coll=la-news-learning&ctrack=1&cset=true I still can't find the article I wanted to post Jac> And.....is burning cars also a standard prank Jac> in Berlin and Brussels? Jac> Jac> Julie Krueger Jac> ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Jac> Re: How are things in Paris? Date: 11/7/05 3:21:31 PM Central Jac> Standard Time From: andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx To: Jac> lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent on: Jac> I read that car burning had become a sort of standard Jac> juvenile prank in France. So far this Jac> year, not counting the cars burnt in the current riots, Jac> over 20,000 (twenty thousand) cars Jac> have been burnt in France. So perhaps it's less serious than it looks. Jac> yrs, Jac> andreas Jac> www.andreas.com Jac> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jac> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, Jac> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html