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French fire fighters tackle a burning car in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a north Paris suburb duirng the ninth night of rioting on Friday 05 November 2005. French police have arrested more than 200 people following fresh riots in and around Paris and other parts of France. More than 750 cars were burnt on the ninth consecutive night of unrest in immigrant-dominated areas near Paris, despite a heavy police presence.
Paris - 'We burned 15 cars. How many do you have?' A grim contest is under way in France as kids from disadvantaged suburbs vie with each other to see who can riot the hardest.
On Internet websites, young arsonists brag about their successes. Rioting, it seems, has become a trend sport, as youths in immigrant areas of provincial cities begin to rally to the call from Paris.
While political slogans hold no sway among these youngsters, hatred for Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is palpable. 'Now we're the ones chasing you with the Karcher (high-pressure hoses),' they say, referring to Sarkozy's pledge to clean the suburbs of 'scum'.
What began as pitched battles has transformed into a nightly game of cat-and-mouse with the police.
Two or three people set out armed with mobile phones, crowbars and incendiary material. A quick hit with the crowbar on the windscreen of a police van, a Molotov cocktail inside - and they're off back into the sprawling housing estates.
The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot squads, in tactics reminiscent of urban guerrilla movements.
'Each night we turn this place into Baghdad', says one masked youth in Sevran near Paris. As a political statement, there have been better - but these riots seem to be more aimed at the television cameras than the National Assembly.
'It would be better to go into Paris than break up everything here,' his friend says, appearing to consider that the victims of the rioting are predominantly their own neighbours and friends.
'Why did they set my car on fire, why mine?' asks one young man as he watches it go up in flames. He knows the perpetrators, he says. They're neighbours of his, but he refuses to name them.
'These are our kids,' says Mohammed Rezzoug, vice president of Blanc-Mesnil football club.
Every night, Rezzoug is out on the streets talking to local youths in a bid to prevent his own sports hall going up in smoke. 'They answer me: 'Momo, we'll [bad word] them all',' he says.
Lurking behind the lines of burning cars is the knowledge that these riots could soon become a matter of life and death.
On Wednesday night, a disabled woman in Sevran barely escaped death in a burning bus.
Youths barricaded the road with burning tyres and threw fuel into the bus. All the other passengers fled, but the 56-year-old, unable to move, was sprayed with petrol and then a burning rag was thrown inside.
The woman survived the attack with second and third-degree burns on one-fifth of her body, after the bus driver managed to pull her to safety.
How have I missed this, its in its 10th night. :shock: 🙁
One paper says its a muslim outcry at discrimination in job sector an stuff, but its defo a response to summat to have lasted this long.

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100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:45
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Looks that way.
You Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:46
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what? Jews started them?
:twisted:
I doubt its got much to do with anything.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:47
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No - it was a response to Salaf's question about an earlier point.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:49
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Why do all jews have to be conspiratorial in order for some to be. I don't think all wahhabis are conspiratorial but I know some of them are. The logic you seem to be using is that because bad people (in this case nazi types) say something it must therefore be false. Just because Hitler accussed jews of conspiring doesn't mean that its completely impossible for jews to be capable of conspiring.
Beast Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:50
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So much for 'dialogue'.
You Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:52
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Dialogue is an 8 letter word...
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:54
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Salaf what do you want me to say to this?
Adolph Hitler killed millions of Jews in ways that scared Western Europe forever and redefined brutality.
All on the possibility jews - some jews, all jews, just jews were conspiring against him and his master race.
Is this something of such grave importance that we need to risk this?
To me - some things are axiomatic. I cannot accept arguments that groups of people have natural tendancies toward malicious behavior just because they are a member of that group.
Beast Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:54
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D-i-a-l-o-g-u-e
Yeah you're right, it is 8.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:55
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Who ever claimed that the jews were behind the crusades?
Quite a few of them were killed by the crusaders.
And jews did play a large role in introducing usury/banking into Europe (in collaboration with local elites of course).
Voltaire attacked them for it although I can't imagine on what basis he was objecting to usury being an atheist and all.
You can't just lump all the attacks on jews and put it down to anti-semitism. Likewise you couldn't do that with muslims.
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:56
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You're telling me.
You Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:57
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yes he is.
Beast Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:58
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You're the one who refuses to talk.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:59
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No he killed them because they weren't Aryans just like he killed the gypsies and the slavs and the poles.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 22:59
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The Jews during the Crusades were considered to be in league with the Saracens, furthermore their presence was a blight and our continuing to allow them on our soil offended God (this resurfaces during the plague) - thus they had to be removed.
And what was so wrong with that? They looked like saracens - they had strange practices like saracens.
Like I said before - a conspiracy doesn't have to be real to do damage, imagined conspiracies have done plenty of damage over the years.
In fact I would submit every example I gave above is an example of an assumed conspiracy by the Jews which has in the end been tragically false.
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:01
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I think that's what it is. I'm very shy.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:02
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And besides Hitler's theories were based on a belief in eugenics.
I hope you're not suggesting that I believe in that.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:02
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Did you ever read the poison mushroom?
Jews were an inferior race - but there were lots of inferior races - jews were particularly awful because they conspired to destroy Germany - they tried to turn german women into whores through their theaters, and they tried to impoverish the german people with their banks.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:03
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Hitlers theories were based on madness - and of course i'm not suggesting anything of the kind.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:08
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My point was Hitler didn't need an excuse to wipe out a group. Most Europeans believed in a jewish conspiracy back then anyway despite his efforts. It wasn't something he invented and through it was able to wipe them out. Most Germans did not participate in the killings of minorites of any kind.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:12
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Oh I thought you meant they were accussed of being responsible for the crusades.
I don't think you can compare the association of jews with banking to the plague theory. One is a prejudice that was motivated by religious belief and based on fact. The other is just a story with no historical basis.
You Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:13
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'Hitler was not that bad.'
He only murdered in genocide and holocaust over 12 million people.
I do not care who came out with the justification first or last. what hitler did was evil. he used prevalent doubt to do it.
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:13
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salaf,
How did Jews get into banking?
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:13
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lol my grandfather used to tell me that on V-E day he couldn't find a single Nazi in all of Germany.
Anyway... you are making my point for me. Hitler didn't need an excuse to wipe out the Jews - he believed it was necessary just like "most Europeans" because he bought into the conspiracy (and he was crazy) just like "most Europeans."
And - I think you would agree the conspiracy theory was wrong. As it turns out they weren't trying to pervert German women, impoverish German families or destroy German culture.
All that destruction for a lie.
That's why you shouldn't buy into this stuff
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:17
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Jews controlled banking in Europe because Christians could not - not because Jews were out to destroy the world or control Europe.
All the nonsense Christians constructed that Jews controlled banking in an effort to destroy Europe was conspiratorial.
*i'm talking about jews in banking during the medieval times and renaissance*
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:18
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No. Jews were not allowed to trade anything with gentiles but money. Interest rates were capped. It was a longstanding practise enforced by Christian monarchs. Those Jews were thus very competitive, and supported a number of communities and initiatives. Gentile suspicions grew and it seemed there literally was no way for the Jew to 'keep himself to himself' unless he wanted to watch his village burn. Anyway, that is the Jewish thing with finance, and politics. In places it was like this up until the turn of the 20th Century.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:23
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There was a papal ban on usury making banking impossible for Christians. And since nobody can keep their less socially acceptable pleasures under control banking with interest became a necessity - especially after the templar and hospitaller banks closed.
salaf Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:24
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I don't know enough about banking to talk about it in depth but I'll address the basis of the stereotype. Christians until very recently believed that usury was forbidden but some jews in medievel and early modern Europe did engage in it with the collaboration of local lords. For this they were resented. Like I mentioned before even Voltaire who was argueing for equal rights for jews in France made this criticism. I imagine the "jew as a banker" stereotype is just an extension of this. Although like I said it seems strange today when usury is practiced by everyone.
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:39
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No, but I have edited my earlier 'no' fyi.
Dave Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:41
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Ironic communism was considered a jewish plot.
Probably at the same time banking was.
100 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 - 23:43
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And today is today is today, for all of us here. Not like anyone owes me an apology, nor vice versa. If anything, Dave, you're a magnanimous conversationalist, but there's no need imho. The only big conclusion I draw is that literal and emotive dogmatism is a very poor guide for humanity.
Pagination
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