The Age has the following headline: Youths set passenger bus alight in Paris.
Here’s the first paragraph of the story:
A band of up to 30 youths forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight, set it on fire and then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, a police official said.
The story continues on for 468 words. However, not one of those words is Islam, Muslim or terrorist.
Which is unfortunate. Because the fact that these “youths” are Muslim terrorists should be a very prominent and important aspect of this story. But the author’s and ediors’ unwillingess to “offend” the Religion of Perpetual Outrage is a cowardly act of dhimmitude.
The Associated (with terrorist) Press (AwtP) has more on French “youths” attacking police officers:
On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleeing. One officer was hospitalized, and no arrests made.
The recent ambush was emblematic of what some officers say has become a near-perpetual and increasingly violent conflict between police and gangs in tough, largely immigrant French neighborhoods that were the scene of a three-week paroxysm of rioting last year.
One small police union claims officers are facing a “permanent intifada.” Police injuries have risen in the year since the wave of violence.
To their credit, the AwtP does include a quote from a police union as to who these otherwise unidentified “youth” might be:
Michel Thooris, head of the small Action Police union, claims that the new violence is taking on an Islamic fundamentalist tinge.
“Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of ‘Allah Akbar’ (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned,” he said in an interview.
If anything like this starts happening here in the states, I hope our law enforcement officers are given orders that allow them to 1) protect themselves by any means necessary, and 2) prevent these Islamist “youths” from continued rioting and spreading their violence by any means necessary.
And “by any means necessary” I do mean “overwhelming force and firepower”.
Well the only good thing about all this in Europe is that we here in the United States are watching it and realize what will happen if we follow their failed model. Things will get worse over there before they get better, if they ever get better.
Left by dianne on October 23rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm