Paris Burns

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If this is not curtailed quickly, the powder keg of racial and ethnic tension that is poised to rip Europe apart will explode.

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Reuters - Monday, November 26

PARIS - Dozens of youths clashed with police and set fire to buildings in a Paris suburb on Sunday after two teenagers were killed in a crash with a police car.

The pair were riding on a stolen motorcycle when the accident happened on Sunday in the town of Villiers-le-Bel, north of Paris, a police union source said.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071126/twl-uk-france-violence-bd5ae06.html

The thieves were traveling at high speed and smashed head on into a cop car. The two youths are dead and police car is totaled.


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After last night's deaths, residents in Tolinette said cars were being burnt out, with police fleeing the scene.

One local, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "Around 100 rioters have burn at least two cars, but the forces of law and order are nowhere to be seen.

"There were four police cars here, but they've retreated. They were charged by the rioters. Some rioters are climbing up to electric cables to try and break them and put the whole district into darkness.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/wfra126.xml

I have to wonder what the rioters response will be when one of these youths trying to knock out the power lines gets electrocuted.

All in all, this situation looks bad.

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Le Parisien reports that they burned down a Peugeot dealership, sacked a train station and shops, tore up a McDonald’s, stole the day’s receipts and attacked customers, smashed and burned cars, and are still going strong. A police commissioner who tried to talk to the mob was attacked with iron rods; his face and skull are fractured. A police station was burned down, seven policemen were injured.

Interviewed by Le Parisien, the uncle of Moushin Souhhali, one of the victims, says he understands the rage; it’s terrible to lose a 15 year-old boy. His body, claims the uncle, was dumped at the fire station with no respect. The police who, in his opinion, caused the accident were nowhere to be seen. He heard they were speeding. His nephew was a good boy, not a delinquent.
http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/11/paris_burning_again.php

I can sympathize with the pain of the parents of the two dead children. However, they were not innocents. They were killed for behaving recklessly with their own lives on what appears to be stolen property. No one has any cause to blame anyone but the two dead youths for their deaths.

They died stupid deaths.

Hardly a cause for a riot.

But for some, any excuse will do.


(hat tip: LGF)

Islam's Punishment of Victims

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200 lashes for being the victim of blackmail . . .

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The victim had met her friend to receive some photos of her that he had taken from a relationship with her when she was 16. She contends that the man had initially threatened to distribute the pictures to shame her. “The picture was even given to the police after that. We were hoping that the Higher Court would take all that into consideration when issuing its verdict, but unfortunately none of that happened,” said Al-Lahem.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=103734&d=19&m=11&y=2007

. . . and gang-rape.

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"I think when you look at the crime and the fact that now the victim is punished, I think that causes a fair degree of surprise and astonishment," McCormack said. "But it is within the power of the Saudi government to take a look at the verdict and change it."

The sentencing came at a sensitive time in U.S.-Saudi relations. The United States is trying to get Saudi Arabia to co-sponsor a U.S.- organized conference next week in the United States to work toward a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. President Bush telephoned Saudi King Abdullah on Tuesday about the conference.

The decision by the Qatif General Court more than doubled the woman's sentence after she was convicted of being in the car of a man who was not a relative.

The woman initially had been sentenced to 90 lashes after she was convicted of violating rigid laws on the segregation of the sexes. The Saudi court said the woman's punishment was increased because of "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media."

The Saudi Ministry of Justice stood by the verdict Tuesday, saying that "charges were proven" against the woman.
http://www.breitbart.com/print.php?id=D8T1MMEG0&show_article=1

So even the rape victim's lawyer must be punished for having the effrontery to appeal for justice.

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Al-Lahem said denying him his right to practice law at this sensitive time is a denial of his client from the right of having a defense. “Asking me to appear in front of a disciplinary committee at the Ministry of Justice on Dec. 5 is a punishment for taking human rights cases against some institutions that over time have gained some sort of immunity from questioning,” said Al-Lahem, referring to a recent case lodged by him, on behalf of a Saudi woman, against the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.

He added that the law is clear that lawyers are not to be stopped from practicing without first being handed an official warning. “None of that happened,” he said.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=103734&d=19&m=11&y=2007

And David Miliband wants to expand the EU to include states where the above is the standard and the practice.


UPDATE: Qatif Case Verdicts Get Ministry’s Backing
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JEDDAH, 21 November 2007 — The Ministry of Justice made its first public statement regarding the second verdict in the so-called “Qatif Girl” rape trial, justifying the decision to punish the victims with lashes and jail time on the basis of “some proved charges.”

The statement, which was released through the official Saudi Press Agency, said the ministry “welcomes objective criticism that benefits the general good, away from emotional responses.”

Last week “Qatif Girl”, whose name has not been released to protect her identity, and a male companion saw their sentences increased from 90 lashes to 200 lashes and six months in jail on orders by the Higher Court of Justice.

The two were found guilty of being in a state of khalwa, when an unrelated man and woman are found together, prior to their abduction and rape. The sentences of the seven men found guilty of abducting and repeatedly raping the young woman and her male companion were also increased to between two and nine years each.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=103791&d=21&m=11&y=2007

Islam, by its fruits.

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A measure of what the West faces.

A glimpse of the enemies heart.

And a caution against what is yet to come.

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Meanwhile, horrifying new details emerged last night of the attempt by suicide bombers to kill Ms Bhutto on her return home from exile last month.

Investigators from Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party said yesterday they believed the bomb, which killed 170 people and left hundreds more wounded, was strapped to a one-year-old child carried by its jihadist father.

They said the suicide bomber tried repeatedly to carry the baby to Ms Bhutto's vehicle as she drove in a late-night cavalcade through the streets of Karachi.

"At the point where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant," investigators were reported as saying. "But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally. So the child was not allowed to come aboard Benazir's vehicle."

Ms Bhutto is said to have told investigators she recalls the face of the man who was carrying the infant. She has asked to see recordings made by television news channels to try to identify the man.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22793111-25837,00.html

The Death of Europe

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Europe, at the behest of the EU, is committing suicide.

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EU 'should expand beyond Europe'
Mr Miliband urged the EU to use "soft and hard power"

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.

He said enlargement was "our most powerful tool" for extending stability.

In his first major speech on the UK's relationship with Europe, he said the EU would not become a "superpower" but should be a "role model" for the world.

It could be a "model power of regional co-operation" dedicated to free trade, the environment and tackling extremism.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7095657.stm

If this proposal does not kill the EU, it will Kill Europe.

Bat Ye'or's nightmare prediction of a coming Eurabia will become fact.


hat tip to Zombie at LGF