bong30.... with all due respect (and unlike you i do accord you some). the riots in france had nothing to do with radical islam. they were a result of an act of police brutality to an already pissed off black youth. the fact that a lot of these youths happened to be muslim was because the kids who were beaten up were muslims. these kids were beaten up because they were muslim and the war on terror had excited everybody into doing things perhaps not inherently in their nature. I was in france at the time of the riots, i watched them burn cars,i knew some of the kids who did it. my school, although nominally a catholic boarding school was about 30% muslim, and i know from living with these kids day to day and talking to them that this had nothing to do with religion or extremism but a revolt against perceived injustice. Im not justifying either side's actions, merely explaining them.