No one could ever claim that Muslims in France have done a good job of integrating into the finer aspects of the mainstream culture of their host nation, but at least their own readiness to torch and destroy stuff can make them look like a reasonably neat fit into the country that gave us the Reign of Terror, the June Rebellion of 1832, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the soixante-huitards.
The very first, in 1979, took place in a suburb of Lyon "After a young person of North African descent was arrested." In 1991, violence hit the Paris suburbs, first, in March, after "An Arab teenager was shot dead by a supermarket security guard" and then, in June, after police killed one Youssef Khaif, 23, who was driving a stolen car.
In subsequent years, riots ensued in various French cities when police killed "18-year-old Mohamed Bahri," who was driving "Towards a police roadblock"; when "Police killed Algerian terrorist Khaled Kelkal"; when "Habib Muhammed, 17, was shot by police during a car theft"; when one Mohamed Benmouna died in police custody; and so on.
In the early days of this clash, police unions declared that their members were "At war with vermin"; on Sunday, the national police union issued a press release that began as follows: "In the face of these hordes of savages, asking for calm isn't enough: it must be imposed!" Arrests have numbered in the thousands, with the average age of those taken into custody being 17 - exactly the same age as Nahel.
While the fires are burning all over France, supposedly in reaction to the killing of Nahel M., elsewhere Muslims have been acting up with equal gusto over another matter.
"Enough is enough"? The audacity! During recent decades, the rulers of Muslim nations have tormented their Christian, Jewish, and other non-Muslim citizens to a literal fare-thee-well.
This isn't to say that every last one of the Muslims who are rioting today in France and elsewhere around the world necessarily thinks of himself as a holy warrior.
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