[Professor S]

Xantar, we won't know whether I'm right or wrong until 10-15 years from now. You can sit and say that my opinion is ignorant on the situation in France, but I could go source for source with you any time you'd like, but that would simply be a waste of time and wouldn't change either of our opinions.

The situation in France was created by a socialist economic scheme that has produced a generation on French that need support from their government and are therefore subject to their government's bias's and inability to run their own country. My problem isn't with what caused the riots, but the fact that they happened and that they fit very appropriately into a horrific vision of cultural strife in the future. Strife that will be, IMO, the West vs. "Ismlamofascism" (oh YES, I said it) If you want to dillute the importance of the Muslim influence in those riots, you can, but I'm not biting.

You used the Rodney King riots quite unconvincingly because those riots do not fit into a greater context. My citing of the French riots was specifically used to show a trend. You could not use the Rodney King riots to show a trend because they are a singular incident that were not followed by increasing violence that spread like wildfire across the US.

And why didn't they? Because prominent political and religious figures quickly spoke out against the violence and there was a large rebuking of it by the people at large. That is the difference between Western reaction to violence such as this a Islamic reaction, as was my point.

Half of the entire problem is perception, also. All the West sees is the bad side of Islam. I know there is good Islam and modern thinkers in Islam. My problem is that I think those people also let themselves be ruled by fear of fanatical Islamic factions. If Islam wants to revamp its image and promote a peaceful version of itself, its members must stand up and take control of their belief, and not let the violent minority keep the majority under its thumb. The silent many are as damaging as the violent few, a violent few that appear to be growing in number with each passing day.

On a side not, I'm more than a little offended that you would think so little of me to be simply basing an opinion on ignorance an racsim. By jumping to that conclusion and adding the irrelevant example of the Rodney King riots, it is you that is guilt of lazy thinking. Not me.