The French go apeshit Well, we shouldn't say the French. Although they are French citizens and they live in France, they don't seem to actually want to be part of France. Rather, they want France to be part of them. France isn't the first country to have internal strife. But unlike other western countries that suffered riots and growing pains, this isn't about equality. It's about inequality. The Muslims of African and Arab descent don't want to be equal to their fellow citizens of western European descent. They think they are better. This is the essential nature of Dhimmitude. The rampage began October 27 when two Arab youths, fleeing what they mistakenly thought was a police pursuit, leapt onto power lines and were electrocuted. The two deaths ignited the riots. French arrogance didn't help. When dealing with people who have 20% unemployment and whose income is 40% below the national average, it's not a good idea to denounce the rioters as “scum” and “rabble.” America survived riots over inequality as well, but the essential difference was that both sides had the same country, the same goals, the same basic religion. And America had a culture of assimilating people from all over the world. No one in France, or all of Europe, has ever had a need or an ability to do that. Moslems don't have abortions whereas France's population is shrinking. Assimilation doesn't have to occur in France because the assimilated will be the majority in 40 years. People on one side are insisting the solution is to bring Islamic immigrants into the social and economic mainstream of the nation. On the other side people are contending it is the beginning of the end for France and she will be engulfed in fiery Jihad. It isn't either, but it's certainly a wake-up call.