PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 5

Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb: Police fired tear gas canisters and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said on Tuesday had also spread to neighbouring towns.

IHT/VIA LGF:

"Sarkozy says that violence in French suburbs is a daily fact of life. Since the start of the year, 9,000 police cars have been stoned and, each night, 20 to 40 cars are torched, Sarkozy said in an interview last week with the newspaper Le Monde."

(The suburbs of Paris are like other cities' slums - only the Parisian slums are mostly Muslim. )

The UK GUARDIAN reports:

"... France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday defended his law-and-order tactics and pledged rapid police reinforcements after four nights of rioting in Paris. ... Sarkozy, citing statistics that show 30 police patrols are stoned and as many cars burned every night on France's low-income housing estates, is unrepentant. "There are some gangs and traffickers who are living off the underground economy, off drug trafficking, who seem to think these neighbourhoods are beyond the authorities' reach, " he said on television on Sunday. ... said the situation in some deprived neighbourhoods had been deteriorating "for 30 years" and had to be tackled firmly. More than 30 people were under arrest last night in the rundown northeastern district of Clichy-sous-Bois after some of the most violent clashes between riot police and mainly immigrant youths that the country has seen for some years.

More HERE. This MIGHT be the beginning of the 21st century's own version of Poitiers - the site of THE BATTLE OF TOURS - where in 1356 Charles Martel defeated the Muslim invaders. And, MAYBE SARKOZY IS THE NEW MARTEL?

EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA ON THE BATTLE OF TOURS: "This battle stopped the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian peninsula, and is considered by most historians to be of macrohistorical importance, in that it may have halted the invasion of Europe by Muslims, and preserved Christianity as the controlling faith, during a period in which Islam was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires. "

UPDATE: Welcome BETSY'S PAGE readers and DISSECTING LEFTISM readers and AMERICAN THINKER readers!

UPDATE #2 - Sarkozy MIGHT tell the french this: "We're fighting them HERE because we didn't fight them over there!" Heh. But od course, he would have to say it in Frahnshe...