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| France ’forming ethnic ghettoes’ |
| 2004-07-09 |
| The study by the French domestic intelligence services found many areas were populated by poor, young French of north African immigrant backgrounds. The report, leaked to Le Monde newspaper, found at least half of the 630 suburbs it looked at had already become separate ethnic communities. The report warned the ghettoes, cut off from mainstream French society, could encourage radical Islam to take root. The intelligence service report deals with an extremely sensitive issue for France: just how bad the sense of alienation has become in the suburbs, among the French-born children of north African immigrant background. The report - given to the interior minister, Dominique de Villepin - concludes that the situation is actually worse than previously thought. Of the suburbs studied, the report says at least half could already be called ghettoes, whose inhabitants felt rejected by, and were in turn rejecting, mainstream French society. The areas studied were chosen because they already had problems with unemployment, crime and violence, had a high proportion of immigrant families - some still practising polygamy - plus a growing number of Islamic prayer rooms as well as frequent anti-Western and anti-Semitic graffiti. The intelligence services noted that many families of immigrant origin were rejecting French values and even the French language, following instead more traditional ways of life associated with their ethnic origin - including an increasing religious radicalisation among young Muslims, and a backlash against young Muslim women who wore Western clothing. [snip] |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #2 Still practising polygamy... Don't see where that's a problem for the French-in their minds, it's a matter of sophistication. Remember how proud they were that the widow and the mistress showed up at a certain president's funeral? Backlash against women, rejecting French language, increasing religious radicalization-France, you better WAKE UP. |
| Posted by: jules 2 2004-07-10 8:16:40 AM |
| #1 Send their asses back to Algeria/North Africa, but wait, that would be to simple. Oh yea and Villepin you are a cockroach loving, weasle blowing, turd. |
| Posted by: FlameBait93268 2004-07-10 1:43:07 AM |