Rioters have taken to the streets of Paris once more, reminding us of the massive rioting that took place only last fall.

The BBC reports:


Paris suburb sees fresh rioting

The mayor's house is now under police guard following the riotingAbout 100 youths wielding baseball bats have fought French police in a Paris suburb, in the worst such violence since widespread riots in November.

The youths threw stones and petrol bombs at police in the town of Montfermeil overnight. They also hurled stones at the local mayor's home.

Seven officers were hurt in the clashes, which lasted several hours.
Police say the trouble began after the arrest on Monday of a young man suspected of assaulting a bus driver.

Three youths were arrested in the clashes, which left part of Montfermeil littered with broken glass and burnt rubbish, the French news agency AFP reported.

The home of Montfermeil's centre-right mayor, Xavier Lemoine, was stoned after he banned youths from gathering in big groups in the town centre last month.

The suburb lies next to Clichy-sous-Bois, the suburb which saw the first flare-up of rioting in November.

In the wave of riots last year, almost 9,000 cars were torched and 3,000 people arrested across France.

The message sent by the rioters is clear: these suburbs are ours, your French laws are no good here, this is Muslim country. Any increased police activity in the Muslim ghettos of France is met with rioting and violent resistance, and many of those suburbs are already de facto under Sharia law. Its not just police activity, but any presence of any form of the French state is not tolerated, including emergency services such as fire-fighters and ambulances. Every time the police or emergency services attempt to do their job, they are attacked by mobs weilding petrol bombs and baseball bats, and many of these so-called 'parts of France' are foreign colonies, where the authority of the French government is weak or nonexistant. These riots are not as much about social, ethnic, cultural or racial equality, as it is interpreted by the liberal media, but about power and control.

It might sound far-fetched, but is it really? Same trends can be noticed in Britain, where 40% of Muslims would like to implement Sharia in predominantly Muslim areas, or more recently, in Sweden, where a Muslim organization proposed different laws for Muslims and non-Muslims.

An excerpt from Paul Belien's excellent piece for the American Conservative, commenting on the rioting of the fall of 2005:

On Thursday night, Oct. 27, two teenagers, Ziad Benna (17) and Banou Traoré (15), fled into an electrical power substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. They were hiding from police who had entered the suburb to investigate a robbery. Why the boys fled and climbed over the three-meter fence of the power station is unclear. The result, however, was something every moderately intelligent schoolboy could have foreseen: they got electrocuted.

When the fire brigade arrived to retrieve their bodies, something happened that every moderately intelligent French politician could have foreseen. Neighborhood gangs attacked the firemen and police officers and went on a rampage, setting fire to dozens of cars. The same thing happened during the following nights, when schools, shops, and restaurants were also set ablaze. At first the media did not devote much attention to the rioting. These things happen every day in the predominantly immigrant and largely Muslim neighborhoods surrounding every major French city.

Only one week earlier Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy had declared in Le Monde: “Violence in French suburbs is a daily fact of life. Since the beginning of the year stones were thrown at 9,000 police cars and each night 20 to 40 cars are torched.” For some years, vehicle burning has been a favorite way to celebrate New Year’s Eve. If only 30 cars are set ablaze on an ordinary night and just 300 on New Year’s, the French police consider the situation to be “stable.”

France is not exceptional. Police officers and firemen are used to having stones thrown at them in Western Europe’s immigrant neighborhoods as a normal part of their daily routine. This is what Andrew Osborn of the British Sunday newspaper The Observer wrote after visiting Borgerhout, the largely Moroccan suburb of the Flemish city of Antwerp, in December 2002: “Outsiders aren’t welcome. ‘Go home before we beat your f------g white ass,’ is how one group of young men greet The Observer. Passing police cars are bombarded with a barrage of expletives and spittle.”

Here is what Rolf Landgren, a police officer in the Swedish town of Malmö, told Steve Harrigan of Fox News in November 2004: “If we park our car it will be damaged—so we have to go very often in two vehicles, one just to protect the other vehicle.” Fear of violence has changed the way police, firemen, and emergency workers do their jobs, explained Harrigan. There are some neighborhoods Swedish ambulance drivers will not go to without a police escort.

The following dispatch is from neighboring Denmark, where this October rioters burned down a kindergarten in Århus. The newspaper Jyllands-Posten witnessed how the fire brigade did not dare to enter the area. Private firefighters were sent in under armored police protection: “Falck, a private emergency service, sent a group of fire engines under police escort to the Kjærslund nursery. A window had been shattered at the back of the house, and the fire had been blazing, apparently caused by gasoline poured onto the floor and lit. Falck stopped on Viby Square, a couple of kilometers from the site of the arson attack, waiting for the police to turn up so they could be escorted to the nursery.”

What Europe is witnessing is the wholesale disintegration of society, the splintering of nations. Native Europeans have been far too slow in realizing the danger in introducing large numbers of culturally distant people into their societies. All models have faced failure, from the French model, which is heavy on integration, to the Swedish model of Multiculturalism. Integration can only work when the subject of integration has something to integrate into. A Moroccan in Beligum lives in a neighbourhood inhabited mostly by other Moroccans or North Africans. At what point is he meant to integrate into Belgian society? Many defend the riots by saying that they are a French tradition of sorts, which would imply that the rioters have most certainly digested the core principles of French culture. Well, riots may be more common in France, but what about Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Britain, Denmark? The riots all display the same basic elements: segregated Muslim neighbourhoods inhabited by angry Muslim youths (or "French"/"Danish"/"Swedish"/"German" youth as newspeak of today dictates), an incident involving the authorities and a violent reaction to the arrival of the authorities.

This same attitude is reflected in the Cartoon row: although Danish law dictates, that the press is free and as such it can publish pictures of Mohammed, the Muslims, who were angered by this, wanted to have Danes respect Islamic law, wanting to impose it upon Europe.

The future looks bleak in terms of social harmony in many major European countries. The worst part is, that so many are still trying to realize the fact that they've made massive mistakes and errors of judgement. The truth is slow to penetrate their ideological armour, and for Europe the clock is ticking.

How can this problem be solved? It is an extremely difficult question. The problem with this 'multicultural project' is that it is very difficult to reverse. Many nations in Europe can still avert the disaster, many must deal with it in their own manner. But so far, little action has been taken and relatively little attention has been paid to a problem, that will determine the future of Europe.