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November 6, 2005

French Postcards

Hatched by Dafydd

The headline is scary -- Police Find Bomb-Making Factory in Paris -- but the guts of the article tell us that both more and less than meet the eye are going on in France.

First, the bad news: clearly, the riot is getting more organized, more violent, and of course, spreading far beyong the flashpoint of Clichy-sous-Bois. The rioters are no longer just rampaging Moslem youths; they are rampaging Moslems with an organized plan and a goal: to be "let alone," which is to say, to be allowed to create a sharia-based "bantustan" in the heart of Western Europe, where they and they alone are the law.

The good news is that the "bombs" they're talking about are Molotov Cocktails, and the makers were juveniles... just relatively organized juveniles. But what they are not is as important as what they are: the fact that they're still using improvised incendiaries (it's easy to make a Molotov Cocktail), rather than an explosive ordnance like a modified mine or artillery shell, shows that the order in these riots arises out of chaos, not out of an international terrorist organiztion like al-Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood. Clearly, some Moslem immigrants in France are members of one or both of these organizations, but the unsophisticated nature of the weapons this "factory" was manufacturing demonstrate that it's not a jihad just yet... though it might well be an "intifada" by now.

It also shows that much of the worst violence, the gasoline bombs, may very well be a "crime of opportunity": alienated young Moslems are looking for a way to express rage and satisfy their violent tendencies, and suddenly somebody hands them the perfect means of doing so: a ready-made Molotov Cocktail. There may have been no more planning about what they would bomb and why than there is in a typical gang fight.

The third shoe, which has not yet dropped, is that if French inaction continues (I mean a lack of effective action to end the rioting), the French "intifada" may well turn into the French jihad. As we take note of what is happening in France and Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands, so too are the real terrorists taking note: they see these spasms of ill-directed rage nevertheless shaking a once mighty nation to its core, and they surely will try to move in and take over, inciting terrorist acts so horrible that there would be no going back.

There is still time to avert this, but France must slap itself awake from the nightmare of apathy and hostility to Western virtues. Little Nemo must awaken from Slumberland. France stands at a crossroads, and the rest of us stand alongside her; we don't know which way the coin will land because it's still spinning... but very quickly, we shall know whether it's heads -- or tails.

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, November 6, 2005, at the time of 7:37 PM

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The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

From Swastikas to “DEMOCRATIC FASCISM”

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at November 6, 2005 7:55 PM

The following hissed in response by: RBMN

The other advantage to using Molotov Cocktails, is that in France you can find a source of ignition hanging from the mouth of every other person as you run down the street.

The above hissed in response by: RBMN at November 6, 2005 8:18 PM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

Molotov Cocktails are not that great of a weapon, especially when most tossers are akin to many who fire weapons. As in, most miss...firearms miss, even whilst they are pointed, and so do Molotov Cocktails. A proper Molotov Cocktail has a fuse stuck into a glass container of gasoline, so how hard can it be to 'set-off', especially when the fuse is on fire??? Lets ask Michelle Malkin, even if she has no clue:

"SPEAKING OF LIBERALS GONE WILD..."
http://www.michellemalkin.com/

That should bring you to here:

"Luckily, it had bounced off the building and landed on the sidewalk, where there was nothing flammable to catch fire." (Er...OK.):
http://www.zombietime.com/world_cant_wait_sf_11-2-2005/part_3/

Basically, we have a glass container of gasoline, with a fuse-on-fire stuck into it, so why would we need something to help, like a "flammable to catch fire"?!? i'm guessing here, but it seems that Michelle and zombie think that gasoline needs more help than just a fuse-on-fire, huh. Hey, i love Michelle, but she ain't a killer, and gasoline doesn't need much help...if used and aimed properly. We're talking gasoline and fire here...DUH!!!

99.9% of humanity are basically waiting to be killed (Michelle and zombie are obviously included in that percentage)...simple as that. How hard can it be to toss a gallon of gasoline, in a glass jug, with a burning fuse stuck in it, onto the San Francisco Chronicle's walls, and have it end up burning weakly upon the sidewalk?!?!?!?!?!?!

Killing ain't suppose to be that difficult...trust me!!!

KårmiÇømmünîs†
Karmic SLAUGHTERER

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at November 6, 2005 9:56 PM

The following hissed in response by: karrde

KarmiCommunist--

it's actually an interesting question whether gasoline is flammable.

LIQUID gasoline isn't very flammable.

VAPOR gasoline (dispered in the presence of Oxygen) is very flammable.

Since gasoline is volatile (in the chemistry sense: it evaporates quickly) it is usually considered to be flammable.

Notice that Molotov cocktails don't require any special supply-chain bringing in controlled substances (like military or commercial grade explosives). As Dafydd says, this doesn't appear to be an internationally-funded and supplied terrorist ring.

The above hissed in response by: karrde at November 7, 2005 7:49 AM

The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist

Karrde,

LIQUID gasoline isn't very flammable.

Agreed...that is why you can stick a fuse-rag into a jug of gas and light the fuse. i was probably a little harsh on MM and zombie, but my point was about hitting a target (like the glass door leading into the SF building) is difficult for many.

Notice that Molotov cocktails don't require any special supply-chain bringing in controlled substances (like military or commercial grade explosives). As Dafydd says, this doesn't appear to be an internationally-funded and supplied terrorist ring.

Agreed...still, the 'riots' have been handled poorly by both sides (especially the French Gov side), and it has opened a door for much larger acts of violence and "internationally-funded" Terrorists to move in. The French Gov is already caving in, and these Islamic 'rioters' clearly have the upper hand now.

Buchanan had a good article yesterday:

Paris Burning: How Empires End

France is on its knees, and has been for some time. All of Europe is now in trouble, and France is ripe...ripe for the taking. And, France is -

in the heart of Western Europe

Karmi

The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at November 8, 2005 2:48 PM

The following hissed in response by: yonason

Dafydd says,"it's easy to make a Molotov Cocktail)."

Easy, but not cheap, at $7.00 per gallon for French gas (the liquid), I wonder how many of the oppressed are doing without their meager ration of cake in order to express their fiery yearning for Egalité.

Also, I couldn't agree with you more, as I suggested in a post to "Is Paris Burning?", that their segregation might be other than forced upon them. Melanie Phillips states the case well,....

"Much of the coverage of the Paris riots has blamed the policies of France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy for abandoning French Muslims inside squalid ghettoes and failing to integrate them. But as Robert Spencer points out, it is the Muslims themselves who insist on not being integrated. In her book Eurabia, Bat Ye'Or details

a series of agreements between the European Union and the Arab League that guaranteed that Muslim immigrants in Europe would not be compelled in any way to adapt 'to the customs of the host countries.' "
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001474.html

OH OH. -- This just in...

"New rioting in Belgium and Germany; French Cabinet ministers were meeting on Tuesday to authorise curfews aimed at stopping rioters after the country's worst civil unrest in decades raged for a 12th night.

Meanwhile, apparent copycat attacks also spread outside France, with five cars torched outside the main train station in Brussels, Belgium. German police were also investigating the burning of five cars in Berlin."
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2210672005

THESE ARE NOT POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS.

The above hissed in response by: yonason at November 8, 2005 5:45 PM

The following hissed in response by: yonason

Perhaps the youth are disaffected, but there 'ghetoization' was, as i pointed out above, engineered by Islamists. Now that they are more susceptable to Islamist propaganda, it is easier to enlist them in the cause of Jihad.

''The worldwide Islamic jihad has begun. The riots in France are not isolated incidents of “disenfranchised Muslim youths”. They are being organized and coordinated by adults. Shortly after the rioting began, French police discovered at least one warehouse facility that contained bomb making ingredients, Molotov cocktails, black masks to hide behind, motorcycles and cell phones. This “insurgency”, or more appropriately—terrorism—was planned.''
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_10232.shtml

The above hissed in response by: yonason at November 8, 2005 6:12 PM

The following hissed in response by: yonason

''but there ghetoization'' should have read ''but their ghettoization'' - sorry.

Finally, get ready to see more saluting like this...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/data/images/2005/11/08/pa-police-big.jpg

These are the ''Palestinian Authority'' ''police.''

I wonder if the E.U. will ever connect the dots.

The above hissed in response by: yonason at November 8, 2005 6:24 PM