Paris
Paris is still rioting. Other parts of France are joining in.
Lots of idiots on the right-wing blogosphere are crowing about this. E.g., “What do decades of idle submission and spineless obiesance under the guise of tolerance reap?“, as if French society has actually displayed anything resembling tolerance towards its large Muslim minority. The other widely-voiced sentiment is that this is just Muslims showing their true colors. Quoth Robert Spencer of FrontPageMag:
That decision is a small example of what the Paris riots demonstrate on a large scale: the abject failure of the multiculturalist philosophy that disparate groups can coexist within a nation without any idea that they must share at least some basic values. The French are paying the price today for blithely assuming that France could absorb a population holding values vastly different from that of the host population without negative consequences for either.
Michelle Malkin is a good place to go to get a nice taste of the sentiment.
I hate to be trite, but this picture is simply at odds with reality. France has been anything but multiculturalist, and in fact has been quite uniform in demanding that its Muslim minority conform, damnit, to the standards of French culture.
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