Paris Burning Again

The New American via Alliance Alert.

Three years after their first car-burning spasm of mayhem, vandalism, and violence, those “restive youths” in Paris are at it again. This time, the Associated Press reports, they are rioting in Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris. And as with the last time, the media are reluctant to explain who the “restive youths” are. That is because the “angry youths,” as another report blandly described them, are mainly North African Muslims.

The situation in Bagnolet is a reprise of the rioting that sent Paris up in flames in 2005. According to the AP, “Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after full blown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.”

So not only is the rioting a reprise of 2005; so is what triggered it: “Some witnesses claimed a police car hit [a] young motorcyclist after he tried to flee a document check outside the project.” Police say the teenager lost control of his motorcycle and wrecked. In, 2005, two teenagers were electrocuted in a power substation trying to hide from police.

Why? Because Bagnolet is a no-go zone. One out of 751.

He will be buried today (T&P translation):

The funerals of the 18-year-old dead on Sunday at Bagnolet, while he was trying to get away from the police riding a motorcycle, will be held tomorrow (that is today) in Paris. Bobigny’s Police (Setine-Saint-Denis) which leads the investigation, has in fact given the authorisation to give back the corpse to the family.

According to sources close to the family, who have asked for anonimity, Yakou Sanago will be buried in a Muslim cemetery in Paris region. “The family wants to bury their son in privacy“, has one of them stated.

The young man’s death has been followed by some incidents on Sunday, when groups of angry youths blamed the police for the Sanago’s death. Version contradicted by Bobigny Police, who has announced  that he was death after “thoracic injury” caused by a stroking violently himself against metallic bars riding his motorcycle.

The autopsy has not discovered any other injury and, according the prosecutor, “at this moment, nothing points to any contact between the police car following him and the young Sanogo”.

France 24 has a video on the incidents.

On Monday the incidents have continued, despite the result of the autopsy.

technorati tags: Paris, Paris_riots, Yakou_Sanago, Muslim_no-go_zones, violence, Muslim_immigration

Book Review: “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” by Christopher Caldwell

Book Review – ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe,’ by Christopher Caldwell – Review – NYTimes.com

The European welfare state tempted and aided the new Islamism. Two-thirds of the French imams are on welfare. It was hard for Europeans, Caldwell writes, to know whether these bold immigrants were desperate wards or determined invaders, keen on imposing their will on societies given to moral relativism and tolerance. In Caldwell’s apt summation, the flood of migration brought with it “militants, freeloaders and opportunists.”

The militants took the liberties of Europe as a sign of moral and political abdication. They included “activists” now dreaming of imposing the Shariah on Denmark and Britain. There were also warriors of the faith, in storefront mosques in Amsterdam and London, openly sympathizing with the enemies of the West. And there were second-generation immigrants who owed no allegiance to the societies of Europe.

A study by Britain’s House of Commons of the July 7, 2005, bombings against London’s Underground caught the hostility of the new Islamism to the idea of assimilation, to the principle of nationality itself. Three of the four bombers were second-generation British citizens born in West Yorkshire. The fourth, who was born in Jamaica and brought to England as an infant, was a convert to Islam. Mohammad Sidique Khan, age 30, was the oldest of the group. He “appeared to others,” the report notes, “as a role model to young people.” Shehzad Tanweer, age 22, was said to have led a “balanced life.” He owned a red Mercedes, and enjoyed fashionable hairstyles and designer clothing. The evening before the bombings, he had played cricket in a local park.

Years earlier, the legendary theorist of the Islamists, the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, had written of the primacy of Islam: we may carry their nationalities, he observed, but we belong to our religion. The assailants from West Yorkshire, and the radical Muslims from Denmark who, after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of Muhammad in 2005, traveled through Islamic lands agitating against the country that had given them home and asylum, were witnesses to the truth of Qutb’s dictum.The description of Europe’s Muslim immigration is really interesting.

The description of the Muslim immigration in Europe is really interesting, so I think it’s really worth a read. It can be consider as “moderate”, though, so some people would consider it not right. But that slogan from Sayyid Qutb, leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood, is sufficiently representative as to consider it worth reading.

Tags Technorati: Europe, Islamism, Muslim immigration, welfare state, book reviews, Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

MSM: Newsweek gets it wrong

I am not truly convinced about conspiracy theories related to European politicians’ alliance with islamists and all that. But this article is not realistic:

But all this obscures a simple fact: the rise of a Eurabia is predicated on limited and dubious evidence. A much-cited 2004 study from the U.S. National Intelligence Council outlines a number of possible scenarios. Its most aggressive is that the number of Muslims in Europe could increase from roughly 20 million today—about 5 percent of the population—to 38 million by 2025. But that projection turns out to be attributed to “diplomatic and media reporting as well as government, academic, and other sources.” In other words, it’s all speculation based on speculation—and even if it’s accurate, it would still mean the number of Muslims will represent just 8 percent of the European population, estimated by the EU to be 470 million in 2025. Indeed, if there is a surge ahead, its scale looks overstated. “There is a quite deliberate exaggeration, as has often been pointed out—but the figures are still being cited,” says Jytte Klausen, an authority on Islam in Europe at Boston’s Brandeis University.

via Dispelling the Myth of Eurabia | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com.

There are two important facts this article is ignoring:

1. if Turkey is admitted in the European Union, the 70 million Turks, Muslims in its great majority AND suffering a creeping Islamization, will make that number rise, at least in 65 million. So that “aggresive” predictions are not realistic, because a European Union with Turkey, even if I don’t like very much that prospect, is not so difficult to imagine.
2. The second fact is that Islamists don’t need, to get what they want, to be the majority in a given territory or to live there in great numbers. In Thailand, Muslims (not Islamists) are only 4.5% of the population and yet: “In fact the government, to try to overcome this moment of crisis (the existence of Muslim separatists), gives a lot of support to the Islamic schools and Islam. What Muslims want they get. (…) “This is not the case for our tribes. Christianity is considered a foreign religion, even if now there are few foreigners: our priests and nuns are almost all local. “.

So, 38 million people out of 470 million (38/400=0,08) are 8% (nearly doubling the amount Thailand has nowadays). But if we add 65 million (35+65= 100) their amount would be of 21.27% of the total population. Thailand has been a traditional Buddhist country with only a very little Islamic sultanate in the south (Brunei was part of that tiny sultanate). But parts of Europe (specially Spain, Greece, southern Italy or the Balkans) have had Islamic rule for centuries in the past, and Islamists consider that every land which has been Islamic in the past, should go back to Islamic rule.

Just compare numbers and reach your own conclusions.