Paris riots: Your reaction (opinions from the BBC)

skooooo

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Paris riots: Your reaction (opinions from the BBC)

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=144&&&edition=2&ttl=20051106022349

Go to this link to see what people are saying about the riots.

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lvx35

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Sat Nov-05-05 09:33 PM
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1. I wish I could understand WHY they are rioting.

I'm reading article after article and having a hard time figuring out what got this started...two boys were on the run from police and turned up dead? that's a lot vauger than the rodney king beating. I feel like there's something we're not being told here.

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skooooo

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Sat Nov-05-05 09:33 PM
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2. Probably there are numerous reasons..

...wouldn't you think?

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lvx35

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Sat Nov-05-05 09:35 PM
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3. I'm sure, but I wish I knew them.

Like if you look at the rodney king stuff, it was related to a perception of sort of modern segragation yada yada. I just don't see the whole picture here. Is it mostly the muslim community? Can they be THAT much more pissed off at the french government than they are at the American government here?

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oblivious

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Sun Nov-06-05 02:35 AM
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9. Maybe this will help: unemployment, disaffection, injustice, boredom

November 05, 2005
Youths give up PlayStations for guerrilla game on streets

...Half of France’s seven million residents of African and Muslim descent live in grim estates such as these. Many of them are second or third-generation immigrants from former French colonies. In the 1950s and 1960s there was work for them, but not any more.

They are the last to get what few jobs there are. Unemployment on the estates is up to three times the national average. Rejected by France, the disaffected young inhabit a no man’s land, increasingly influenced by radical Muslim preachers.

In these euphemistically named “sensitive districts” nobody believes that President Chirac’s team will do more than its predecessors to relieve the grievances that have festered for decades. “They are revolting against injustice and the revolt will only spread if nothing is done,” Stomy Bugsy, a rap singer and one of the few celebrities to emerge from the estates, told The Times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1858708,00.html

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soothsayer

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Sat Nov-05-05 09:36 PM
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4. They're muslims who are rioting, right? The news never says it

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lvx35

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Sat Nov-05-05 09:53 PM
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5. its muslims or poor people.

I've heard the muslim reports. could be spin sexing up the amount of them that are muslims, or sexing it down. I don't know.

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PsychoDad

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Sun Nov-06-05 12:57 AM
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7. With the political climate here and in europe...

Edited on Sun Nov-06-05 01:04 AM by PsychoDad

I'd think that if the rioters were primarily identified as Muslims, it would have been prominently proclaimed by the media.

As I understand it, these are people of color, muslims and non-muslims mostly of African immigration or decent who feel that the killing of the 2 boys was motivated by racism.

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lakemonster11

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Sun Nov-06-05 02:30 AM
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8. They just keep saying that it's in areas with muslim populations

I can't tell if they mean that it's xenophobic rioting on the part of native French residents or if it's rioting on the part of the muslim residents. I guess it could be both.

:shrug:

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Sun Nov-06-05 12:08 AM
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6. "civil war"

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