Paris Intifada Root Causes?

Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 7:42:19 am PST

Many of the rioters in France are of Algerian descent; perhaps they’re just obeying their sheikhs and imams? Algerian group calls France ‘enemy number one’. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.)

PARIS, Sept 27 (AFP) - An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action against France which it describes as “enemy number one”, intelligence officials said Tuesday.

“The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the Islamic martyr,” the group’s leader Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also own as Abdelmalek Dourkdal, was quoted as saying in an Internet message earlier this month.

“France is our enemy number one, the enemy of our religion, the enemy of our community,” he was quoted as saying.

France was mentioned 15 times in the text, and the Algerian government was also targeted, the officials said.