If you want to get a sense of the people behind the riots in France, here is a quote from an article that paints the picture:
Mahmoud Khabou, 20, the jobless son of Algerian immigrants, knows little of the world beyond the concrete housing projects that rise in bleak rows barely an hour's subway ride from the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and other grand monuments of Paris.
But he knows who his heroes are. ''Osama bin Laden and Rodney King," he said, referring to the Al Qaeda leader and the African-American whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 spawned massive racial riots.
''One because he gives pride back to the Muslims," the young man asserted as he and a trio of friends stood near the charred ruins of a carpet shop. ''The other because he was just a poor man, a 'nobody man' of color, but he caused a great city to burn."
That just about says it all!
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HAY we've got celeb peeps here, matthew mcconaughey, sandra bullock, lance armstrong w/ Cheryl Crow. Okay, maybe that's pushing it. They film movies here a lot! - cbl
LOL...you aren't supposed to reply to my comments on your blog with a comment on my blog...will only confuse the peeps =)
Hey Dude! I made it to the world of blogs...a miracle on the same scale as the Red Sea crossing!!
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