AP places the important news: that violence continues to escalate - in paragraph six:
Clashes around France left 36 police injured, and vandals burned 1,408 vehicles overnight Sunday-Monday, setting a new high for overnight arson and violence since the rioting started Oct. 27, national police chief Michel Gaudin said. [My emphasis]
And perish forbid that any connection with Islam should be mentioned except faintly and in paragraph seven:
The mayhem started as an outburst of anger in suburban Paris housing projects and has fanned out nationwide among disaffected youths, mostly of Muslim or African origin, to become France's worst civil unrest in over a decade. [My ellipses and emphasis]
Yeah, "a burst of anger" among those of non-Muslim African origin is a substantial cause.
And it is all Sarkozy's fault:
Much of the youths' anger has focused on law-and-order Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who inflamed passions by referring to troublemakers as "scum." [My emphasis]
At least our elite media are not as yet telling the world that "It's all Bush's fault", but give them time to invent a weasely way to do so.
They obvious enjoy telling the world that the President of the United States is to blame for all sorts of evil, … and then bewailing the world's low opinion of America.
And the weasels stick together:
France's biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France, issued a fatwa, or religious decree. It forbade all those "who seek divine grace from taking part in any action that blindly strikes private or public property or can harm others." [My emphasis]
The above emphasized weasel word, "blindly", is not identified as such by fellow weasels. Nothing in the "fatwa", as reported, forbid those acting under the violent form of Islamic interpretation of the Koran from committing any sort of atrocity whatsoever.
France's Islamic organizations have learned the art of the "Clinton clause", although I would not accuse our former President of being their only mentor.
The lead of the AP story is the "first fatality" in 11 days of "urban unrest".
In other words, it is not really bad because only one person has been killed.
(The measure of evil to these elites is the number of deaths. Whether deaths are in vain or in the cause of humanity is of secondary interest. And the notion that freedom might be more in the interests of humanity than big government solutions is foreign to their high and obviously superior morality.)
The two earlier deaths do not count because they were the result of police responding to a call from a responsible citizen. The presence of the police caused two young men not connected to the complaint to hide in an electric power facility and to become electrocuted. Perhaps the AP would have us believe that these deaths were the fault of the police and the responsible citizen and not the fault of Islamist "urban unrest".
"Urban unrest"! What a magnificent spin on massive insurrection, riot and out of control vandalism!
But the top prize for spin, if not outright prevarication, goes to the phrase "French rioting" in the headline.
Yeah, the rioters are those folks that we have always thought of as French.
Above quoted paragraphs are from a Yahoo! AP article, Man Becomes First Killed in French Rioting :
Man Becomes First Killed in French Rioting By ANGELA DOLAND, [/] Associated Press Writer [/]PARIS - A man who was beaten by an attacker while trying to extinguish a trash can fire during riots north of Paris has died of his injuries, becoming the first fatality since the urban unrest started 11 days ago, a police official said Monday. Youths overnight injured three dozen officers and burned more than 1,400 vehicles.
Apparent copycat attacks spread to other European cities for the first time, with five cars torched outside Brussels' main train station, police in the Belgian capital said.
Australia, Austria and Britain became the latest countries to advise their citizens to exercise care in France, joining the United States and Russia in warning tourists to stay away from violence-hit areas. […] [My ellipses and emphasis]
