“Each Night We Make This Place Baghdad”
Charles Johnson
Mon Nov 7, 2005 at 2:07 pm PST • Views: 369
Two items for those who continue to insist that the riots breaking out all over Europe are unconnected to the global Islamic jihad:
France rioters: ‘Each night we make this place Baghdad’. (Hat tip: Kalle.)
The rioters have also started using motorbikes and mobile phones to trace the movements of police riot squads, in tactics reminiscent of urban guerrilla movements.
‘Each night we turn this place into Baghdad’, says one masked youth in Sevran near Paris. As a political statement, there have been better - but these riots seem to be more aimed at the television cameras than the National Assembly.
‘It would be better to go into Paris than break up everything here,’ his friend says, appearing to consider that the victims of the rioting are predominantly their own neighbours and friends.
‘Why did they set my car on fire, why mine?’ asks one young man as he watches it go up in flames. He knows the perpetrators, he says. They’re neighbours of his, but he refuses to name them.
Video of rioters screaming “Allahu akbar!” (Hat tip: Avary.)
Frank says: