Soyez gentil.
On the 11th night of violence and rioting, the Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (UOIF) hits on the idea to issue a fatwa against violence and rioting. Super idea! A fatwa is a loosely legal pronouncement issued by a mufti, the designated Islamic scholastic authority. Only the mufti who issues the fatwa and his followers are bound by it.
MUSLIM GROUP ISSUES FATWA AGAINST VIOLENCE
PARIS November 7, 2005 (AFP) - An umbrella grouping of French Islamic organisations issued a fatwa, or formal instruction, to Muslims late Sunday to clamp down on wanton violence as rioting raged for an 11th straight night across France."It is strictly forbidden for any Muslim ... to take part in any action that strikes blindly at private or public property or that could threaten the lives of others. To contribute to these exactions is an illicit act. "Every Muslim living in France, whether a French citizen or a guest of France, has the right to demand deep respect for his person, his dignity and his convictions and to strive for more equality and social justice. But this action, whether taken in a concerted or spontaneous way, must in no way contradict (Muslim) teaching or the laws governing communal life."
Thus proscribed, Paris can rest assured that no Muslims will join the "youths" wilding through the Métropole .
Brillant !
Going into the 12th night of an esteem-building spirited romp by robustious "youths", Dom has made a connection behind nightfall and hellzapoppin.
PARIS November 8, 2005 (IHT) - "The state will be firm and just," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said in a televised address. "Communities can, under authority of the Interior Ministry, invoke curfews if they believe it will restore calm and protect residents."
While Villepin said the government planned to address root causes of the violence by increasing opportunities for young people, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of restoring order.
"In a republic, there are rights and responsibilities," Villepin said. "The law must be respected."
Villepin ruled out army intervention in an interview with France's TF1 television, saying "We are not at that point." But he said 1,500 police officers would join 8,000 already deployed in the troubled areas.
His address came as the authorities braced for a 12th night of turmoil. The first signs of violence emerged by sundown [This was the clue that had stubbornly eluded Dom.] as local officials in the southern city of Toulouse said rioters had set fire to a bus and then pelted police officers with gasoline bombs and rocks.
Jack hastened to balance all this law and order talk with private mea culpas to the president of Latvia, who, perhaps perplexed why she and not the French public should be privy, saw fit to share.
President Jacques Chirac, in private comments that were more conciliatory than his warnings Sunday that rioters would be caught and punished, acknowledged French failings with integration, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia said after meeting Monday with the French leader.
She said Chirac deplored the "ghettoization of youths of African or North African origin" and recognized "the incapacity of French society to fully accept them," according to reports by news agencies.
France "has not done everything possible for these youths, supported them so they feel understood, heard and respected," Chirac said, adding that unemployment runs as high as 40 percent in some suburbs, four times the national rate, according to Vike-Freiberga.
It seems curious to us how at one and the same time the Jack pack can prattle how the law must be obeyed or else, yet openly consider concessions obtained from the law being disobeyed. The clever "youths" draw the not unreasonable conclusion that neither are true. There is no "or else" and there are no "concessions".
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If Jack had been reading Pave, he might have had a clue. It is not about giving money, it is not even about giving jobs, it is about inclusion. Something America has learned, though we still need to work on it.
I used to think that forced bussing and integration was a bad policy that infringed on individual rights. Well it did in infringe rights, but it was not a bad policy. I think that forced integration is going to be the way out of this mess for France. That foreign policy sops are no substitute for substantive action, no matter what the French newspapers believe.
