Paris Update

Drudge links to a news article that reports the French:

Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said Sunday.

This paragraph, the 10^th paragraph of the story, struck me in the odd way it was written:

The violence - originally concentrated in neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large populations of Arab and African Muslim immigrants - has now spread across France, extending west to the rolling fields of Normandy and south to resort cities on the Mediterranean.

Would it not have been more accurate if this passage read as follows:

The Muslim rioters – who were originally concentrated in their own neighborhoods northeast of Paris with large populations of Arab and African Muslim immigrants – have now spread their violence across France, extending west to the rolling fields of Normandy and south to resort cities on the Mediterranean.

The way it was written gives the impression that the violence was somehow contagious, that the French citizens of Normandy and the resort cities were linking arms with the rioters and rising up against their government. Only later, much later in the article do we learn that it is not the violence that has spread but the rioters who have spread the violence:

Most rioting has been in towns with low-income housing projects where unemployment and distrust of police run high. But in a new development, arsonists were moving beyond their heavily policed neighborhoods to attack others with less security, Hamon said. [emphasis added]

And now they are not just youths but arsonists. The media will not touch with a ten foot pole the words Islamists or Muslims. That’s who they are, but acknowledging that fact is just too uncomfortable for the PC-minded media.

Chirac vows to make the Muslim radicals pay. He…

… promised arrests, trials and punishment for those sowing “violence or fear” across the nation as the urban unrest that has triggered attacks on vehicles, nursery schools and other targets hit central Paris for the first time. Police said 35 cars were torched, most on the city’s northern and southern edges.

Oooh. The Islamists must be shaking in their boots.

While Chirac makes promises, the Muslim insurgents are more and more getting their act together:

“What we notice is that the bands of youths are, little by little, getting more organized,” arranging attacks through cell phone text messages and learning how to make gasoline bombs, Hamon [national police spokesman] said.

Captain Ed writes:

Muslims comprise the largest component of the rioters by far, the riots started in Muslim communities, and they began after the deaths of two Muslim youths who may or may not have been chased by police before they accidentally electrocuted themselves while climbing into an electrical substation. It doesn't take a math major to add two and two, although for the better part of ten days, it has appeared that attending j-school made that kind of arithmetic almost impossible.

Molly Moore gets even more detail for the Post in her latest report. (Moore so far has made herself into the must-read reporter on the French riots.) Cars have not been the only targets in this civil uprising. In just one suburb, the riots have destroyed a gymnasium and a youth center. Across France, the damage has begun to get spectacular and worrisome, and shows no sign yet of abating. Even for a nation that feels as though it has to have some kind of violent social uprising once a generation just to remain relevant, this spell of insanity seems like something different.

Is this the beginning of the war for Eurabia? So far, the purported Islamist leaders of the uprising have kept a low profile, but if this violence proves successful, they will have no hesitation in loudly demanding their spoils of victory: autonomy of authority in the sink estates, a recognition of sharia law in the Muslim enclaves of France, and the creation of de facto proto-states where Islamist lunacy can breed and produce even more Eurabian terrorists. Until the French get serious about protecting themselves and their national interest -- and that means meeting violence with a swift and crushing response, not handwringing and dithering -- the Islamists will grow more and more emboldened by the lack of French will to fight for their own land.