AP Absurdity: French Riots Due to Racism!

Okay, I truly have seen it all now. Two AP writers penned an article that is so far off the mark, it can only be labelled as fiction. I'm going to break this down here but for the full article, see it here.

Nov 30, 2:56 PM EST
Riots Point to Racially Divided
France
By JENNY
BARCHFIELD and JOHN
LEICESTER Associated Press Writers

VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France (AP) -- French officials point to a host of causes
- poverty, unemployment, the influence of criminal gangs - for riots that
erupted this week.
But there's one taboo issue that officially
colorblind France has been unable to confront: race.
In the name of equality, France has so idealized the melting pot that it
has made its minorities invisible - on paper at least. The country does not
compile statistics on the foreign-born or their French-born children. France, a nation of 60 million people, has the largest Muslim community
in western Europe but does not know how many Muslims live here. The
number is estimated at about 5 million - though some experts
disagree.
Critics argue that being officially colorblind has limited France's
ability to recognize and treat the difficulties its minorities face - sometimes
because of their color. Immigrants and their French-born children often complain
that it is harder for them than whites to get work, job interviews, housing,
even entrance to nightclubs.

Okay, so these two "writers" decide to make this an issue of race. Racism is causing the riots in France, yet they immediately address the huge muslim population. I ask you. Is muslim a race? Radical islam is an ideology, not a race! Another point. The writers point out the epitome of the Socialist agenda - a truly colorblind society, as they call France. But, and it's a huge one, they go on to say that it can't be colorblind if certain people can't get jobs or interviews? So what is it? Is France colorblind or isn't it?

Here's more of the lunacy:

"Everyone is equal. That is what is written. But behind that is something
else," said Hassan Ben M'Barek, spokesman for Suburbs Respect, a group that
lobbies for those who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
In some such areas
of the Paris region, "there are no white French people left in the streets. You
can drive around for two or three hours and all you will see are North
Africans and blacks. And these are neighborhoods with enormous
problems," he added. "Those who have the means to leave the projects are white,
and they leave. There's no more ethnic diversity."

Okay, let's cut the crap here. Let's take off our multicultural, American ideal rainbow coalition glasses and be straight here. These two writers from the AP ...although I cannot prove this...have GOT TO be Americans. They have taken this story and made it into a Black vs. White racial issue reminiscient of 1960's America. IT IS A LIE. These two writers are lying to us.

This is an issue of muslims vs. the rest of France. Muslim immigrants have come to France in droves - some may call it an invasion. Do they assimilate to the French culture? No. They insist on THEIR way of life be implemented by French society. These AP fiction writers can insert as many racially charged nouns and adjectives they want to, but see it for what it really is - this is a war of cultures and ideologies.

The French have tried appeasement after appeasement with these insolent muslim immigrants and what has it gotten them? Nightly riots with automobiles burned, property damaged and police injured.

Ms. Barchfield and Mr. Leicester, I call you on the carpet here, fools. Your racial spin on this just doesn't work folks.

Further proof of these writers making this a "black" issue and not a muslim issue include these excerpts from the article:

-The trigger for the rioting was the deaths last Sunday of two teens whose motorcycle crashed with a police car. Lakamy Samoura, 15 and Mohsin Sehhouli, 16,
weren't wearing helmets and their bike was not authorized for public roads

-Having a foot in France and another in Africa is something that Maka Sali, a black 17-year-old in Villiers, identifies
with.

-The only thing they (the government) have done is build that police
station," said Frank Dosso, a black 16-year-old, referring to a
$7 million police station under construction in Villiers. "But that's not going
to last long."

AP, nice try in trying to make this a black and white struggle. The whole of Europe knows it is not. It is muslim immigrant vs. French people. And while you try to portray it all as a portrait of racism and injustice, it is quite simply a war.