[lit-ideas] Riots, France
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:36:23 -0000
(Mark Steyn is mad)
"And so conditions were ripe for violence in France's immigrant
suburbs when two teenagers of African origin were accidentally
electrocuted in October 2005 while hiding from police."
please read the whole piece
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/paris_riots/
"The status of Muslims in France is at once much healthier and
more problematic than most recent commentary lets on. France's
experience with integration has been shaped by a unique
combination of history, philosophy, and contemporary concerns,
which together have produced a stop-and-start immigration policy
and a wariness about Islam. Still, French sociologists agree that
the integration of Muslims into French society has proceeded
fairly well. Most Muslims in France -- half to three-fifths of
whom are believed to be French citizens -- have adopted French
cultural norms; they enthusiastically endorse republican values,
including laïcité (the French state's aggressive official
secularism). They tend to vote somewhat less often and somewhat
more to the left than most of the French population, but
socioeconomic variables, not religion, account for the
differences. Their desire to assimilate has sometimes been met
with a form of discrimination fueled by nativism and a deep
distrust of Islam that has made it harder for them to find homes
and jobs. But what has turned such vexing problems into crushing
burdens is the economic stagnation that has afflicted the whole
country and defied reform efforts for three decades."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/10/france_and_its_muslims_1.html
"Shortly after the rioting had died down, after the state of
emergency was lifted in January 2006, another set of protests
broke out, this time in central Paris and other French cities,
and now made up largely of white youths. "
http://riotsfrance.ssrc.org/
"President Jacques Chirac for the first time directly addressed
the inequalities and discrimination that have fueled two weeks of
rioting across France"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9891709/
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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