Richard Miniter stops by to discuss the French Riots
Richard Miniter has unique European experience. He is a New York Times bestselling author and was an editor for the Wall Street Journal – Europe. He lived in Brussels for five years, and has extensive contacts across France, from whom he has learned new information over the past two days.
Rich Miniter has fresh on-the-ground information related to the Paris riots:
• The population bomb:
“There are more practicing Muslims in France today than baptized Roman Catholics. The most popular name for a boy is Mohammad…”
• It's bigger than France:
“Consulting my Belgian sources, the riots have spread to Belgium and The Netherlands, so the problem is a lot bigger than just France. All of Continental Europe could go up in flames. One out of nine Swedes is a Muslim immigrant. One out of ten Danes is a Muslim immigrant. One out of eight Dutch are Muslim immigrants. Roughly the same percentages apply to Germany and Belgium and Italy.”
• Islam isn't the issue.
“Despite what many believe, the problem isn’t Islam. The riots rage in French housing projects that have been abandoned by the police for years, leaving them in the control of violent North African Muslim gangs. Thanks to the help of the Russian mafia, these Muslim gangs are often better armed than the police -- with machine guns and rocket launchers. The riots are really a civil war about who controls these suburbs -- Muslim gangs or the French government.”
• French riots threaten the United States.
“The European strategy of designating Muslim neighborhoods as “no-go” areas for police makes them fertile breeding grounds for terrorism. The 9-11 plot was hatched in a “no-go” Muslim neighborhood in Hamburg, Germany. If the French lose this fight, Europe will have hundreds of staging areas for terrorist attacks against the U.S.”
• Poverty doesn't explain the French riots.
Miniter devotes an entire chapter in his new book Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror that debunks the link between terrorism and poverty.
As an internationally recognized expert on terrorism, Rich Miniter, the author of two New York Times bestsellers, has now written Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:36 AM
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The rioting in France is a result of socialism and racism. The French created ghettos away from the ethnic French. They thought they could control immigrants by keeping them in squalor conditions on small amounts of welfare, no job opportunities, and no police supervision. As a result many young men join gangs just like here in order to survive. All of this has backfired, but who cares about the French anyway.
The French government mandates immigrant populations, not all are Muslim, to live in virtual concentration camps. Islam is not the common denominator, however, black or brown skin is.
Islam is not the main factor because here in the US, Muslims, or for that matter, immigrants are not forced to live in ghettos. Out on their own they prosper and flourish. Muslims in the US, for the most part, are better educated and wealthier than native born Americans. They have utilized the freedoms here and overcame hardship. They don't live off wealfare and contribute to society as doctors, engineers, and teachers. These are careers denied to them in France hence rioting there and social mobility here.
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