If denial is deadly, then mass denial in the mass media is many times more lethal.
The mainstream media have gone out of their way to downplay the Islamic aspect of the current arson and mayhem in France. The violence is portrayed instead as a response to unemployment. This leads to the illogical conclusion that the solution is for France to provide jobs for the happless unemployed "youths" who are rioting. (See Michelle Malkin's The French Solution: Pay Off the Rioters.)
I don't know about you, but recent experience firebombing cars is something I do not like to see on the resume of anyone I plan to hire.
To admit that violent Islamists, not merely jobless "youths," are violently attacking the cultural "utopia" known as France at would mean admitting that the whole narrative blaming America for Islamic terrorism is flawed.
Captain's Quarters sums it up nicely: "FRANCE--like much of the media--stood foursquare against Bush's interventionist policy in Iraq. So if Islamists have targeted France as their next front in an attempt to establish "no-go" territories in the center of Europe, it might call into question much of the anti-Bush narrative. Instead of Muslim anger being caused by America's policies of intervention, Islamofascism might really be a worldwide movement against Western interests."
If it is to survive as a nation, France must begin by opening its eyes.
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