Newsweek: Don’t Panic
Charles Johnson
Mon Nov 7, 2005 at 7:29 pm PST • Views: 249
Newsweek assures the readers that even though the disaffected youths are crying “Jihad!” it’s really nothing to worry about: The Fire This Time. (Hat tip: NC.)
Night after night last week rage spread through the ghettos that ring Paris, then beyond—to the slums of Dijon in Burgundy, Rouen in Normandy, Toulouse, Rennes, Marseilles. When, on the fourth night, a tear-gas canister exploded near the entrance to a warehouselike mosque in Clichy-sous-Bois, forcing hundreds of worshipers to flee barefoot and gagging into Place Anatole France, a new cry went up from the vandals. “Now this is war,” said one. Others cried “jihad.”
It was neither, in fact, and the Paris known to tourists was not burning.
Good night, and good luck.
Frank says: