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on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:24:52 AM
Allah at Hot Air has a wonderful story up regarding our cheese-eating, surrender monkey "friends" in Europe, and how they're, well, capitulating to the Islamicists there:
Young people branded "scum" in 2005 this year offer an electoral prize, as an approaching presidential election draws politicians to France's riot-hit suburbs on the hunt for votes.
Even conservative presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy -- who dismissed angry youths as thugs -- has joined Socialist Segolene Royal in hiring rappers and actors to court young voters from France's poor neighborhoods, the 'banlieues'.
But it will take more than music to win over people in the ethnically diverse estates, where youths angry about poverty and unemployment torched thousands of cars 14 months ago.
"I'm a bit fed up with politics. Nothing's changed since the riots," said Karim Yassine, 20, hanging out with his friends on a parking lot in a bleak estate north of Paris.
"Many people here have too many personal problems. Worrying about politics is not a priority ... There's nothing here. No jobs, no perspective. All we have is that sad basketball court," he said, pointing to an empty, potholed square.
Royal has called on youngsters like Yassine to register to vote. Pro-democracy groups say more than a third of potential voters are not on electoral lists in some poor neighborhoods. Even among those who are, abstention has run as high as 50 percent in recent polls, they say.
See, everything the French seem to touch nowadays turns to garbage. Even the Islamicists can't get excited about the vote, and that speaks volumes about French politics. It really doesn't surprise me that those running for the presidency are playing games with these people. The next thing you know, one of these yay-hoos will offer them unequivocal shari'a law. I just get this feeling, deep down, that these guys will keep giving in more and more, and before too long, they're just going to hand the keys over to the Muslims there. The French will never learn.
And I wonder what the people of France--the non Muslims--think about this. After all, how would you feel if your politicians were making conciliatory moves to a group of people who rioted across the greater area of Paris in 2005, and to mark the anniversary, they went on a mini-riot, torching more cars? If I were a Frenchmen, I'd consider changing my name from "Francois" (sp) to "Frank", and move to Hoboken. The Democrats are better than French politicians. They haven't directly appealed to our enemy during an election cycle, yet.
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