AP Identifies Root of Muslim Violence in France: Non-Muslims!

Police fanned out around the outskirts of Paris amid fears of renewed violence Friday as mourners marked the deaths a year ago of two teenagers that ignited three weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France. The outburst of anger at the accidental deaths of the youths, electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police, grew into a broader challenge against the French state that has continued to simmer. Attackers have torched four buses after forcing off passengers in the outskirts of Paris in recent days, and police have been ambushed in several organized attacks in recent weeks, raising fears of a new wave of violence around the anniversary… Last year’s events jolted France into recognizing its failure to offer its 5 million Muslims, and its minorities especially those of Arab and black African origin a fair shake. Instead of France’s vaunted “egalite,” or equality, immigrants and their French-born children suffer police harassment, struggle to find work, and live in cinderblock public housing rife with crime and poverty. The government passed an equal opportunities law this spring and has poured funds into “sensitive” areas, but disenchantment still reigns.