The same type of thing happens in Canada. Political correctness and moral equivalence reigns.

Sauron

The reporting of “reports” such as the one about cannibalism in New Orleans may have been based on outrageous remarks by local officals and therefore legitimate to that extent. What bothers me though, is that anyone who would believe that well fed people would be so hungry, that only 3 days after running out of groceries, they would resort to eating a corpse, is an idiot. (arn’t all Americans overweight anyway?)

Sauron

Arthur

My latent racism distorting my worldview? Perhaps.

How is the view from the left wing bleachers?

Sauron

Thanks but I am specifically interested in Pakistan.

Sauron

zouzy86 asks:

where does the US and Canada stand with France?

I am unsure what he means, but I am certain that they both understand how serious the situation is and will support whatever action the French authorities take to stop the rioting. I doubt there are many who are getting any satisfaction from it.

While immigrant populations in NA are better intergrated, there are some neighbourhoods in many large cities that have large immigrant populations including some that are muslim. This gives us some notion of how difficult it is for the French authorities and how difficult it would be to deal with a simliar event over here.

In Canada back in the 1990’s idiots from both the Kurdish and Serbian communities in Toronto and Ottawa decided to show their appreciation for being allowed into Canada, by taking to the streets and abusing the police with rocks and fire bombs because of what was going back in the “homeland”.

So far, it seems the french authoritities have shown remarkable restraint. Perhaps its time shoot anyone caught lighting the fires. That wouldn’t solve the principle causes of the riots but it might buy some time.

Sauron

Hammy

Apparently your reading comprehension is not up to scratch. 😉

Anyway for those who do read english (or dutch) take a look at the following.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/mode/429
or
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/dutch

Back in 1992 during the riots in LA the general opinion in europe seemed to be that, due to the fact that europe was generally more humane, less racist and had superior political and social structures and more commitment to minority populations , that such events could not occur. It would seem that times have changed.

Perhaps the riots will cause some to reflect on the theory that the racial and religious background of immigrants does not matter. Unfortunately in Canada we have had similar notions, but up to now, we seem to be doing a bit better at integrating Muslims into Canadian society as does the U.S.

Sauron

The U.S. mainstream media have been caught in some very uncomefortable situations in the last year or so. The common denominator appears to be that news organizations do not investigate stories properly. The most obvious examples are the fake Bush National Guard memos, false Koran toilet flushing reports, the CNN resignations over comments about the targeting of journalists in Iraq, stores of cannibalism, raping, and murder in New Orleans, misrepresentations of the U.S. congressional report on 9/11, etc.

As to conspiracy theories, one would normally expect that those who promote and believe the most unlikely offerings are simply moonbats and fruitcakes but some of the most bazarre claims are given extensive coverage by the media which only serves to promote the most idiotic notions. Look at the extensive coverage the ravings of 9/11 conspiracies theorists continue to get.

A short time ago some nut on this forum was raving about the U.S. government being manipulated by Jews!

Sauron