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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (258958)11/8/2005 11:40:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER   of 1577535
 
Re: What we usually don't see is the wide scale torching of cars. Is that a French thing?

Yep... I guess you can call it a "French thing". BTW, I predicted the whole mess THREE years ago with a one-month accuracy!!!

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Europe's Arab citizens make up about 20 percent of the Union's population. They remained in their homes in 1992 when the EU was set up, while hundreds of thousands of other immigrants came or were expelled during the two-year crackdown that followed the declaration.

Though EU laws guarantee equality for all its citizens, European Arabs have always been among the last in economic and educational development and first in unemployment, fueling resentment.

In October 2005, decades of frustration erupted in violence, sparked by the beginning of the illegals uprising. European Arabs rioted, and police responded with lethal force, killing 13, galvanizing many Arabs in their belief that Europe's natives considered them second-class citizens at best and potential traitors at worst.

Some Europeans had the opposite view of the riots, seeing them as evidence that European Arabs have crossed the line into open revolt.
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