Word: arabism
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...France's Streets of Fire Re your reporting on violent protests in France [Nov. 14]: The rioters, who are mostly Arab or black, may also be French, although they say they don't feel as if they are treated like "real" French citizens. But what is a French citizen? France is in the middle of a deep national identity crisis. The population doesn't know what it wants, and the politicians don't know what to offer voters. The cause of the riots goes beyond economic and social problems. France is a radically changing society, and it needs something...
...illusion to believe the generous social-welfare benefits France offers its citizens?including millions of immigrants mostly from Arab countries?will bring social peace. How can the government, the left-wing media and ?lite French society turn a blind eye to the hatred brewing in immigrant housing projects? The greatest damage inflicted by the riots has been to the hopes of young Arab men and women who really want to become integrated into their adopted country. Jayant Gala Brossard, Canada...
...make the long-term burden sustainable you need a broad alliance, to spread the load, to reduce excessive burdens on yourself. You need others to agree on the basic causes and solutions. It's not poverty, it's not deprivation, it's something more fundamental, a resurgence of Arab and Islamic pride, and a belief that their time has come. The objective must be to reassure and persuade moderate Muslims, the rationalists and modernizers, which I believe the majority are, that they are not going to lose, that they have the weight, the resources of the world behind them. They...
...Search for Respect In his essay "What the Uprising Generation Wants," Charles Krauthammer wrote about the alienated young Arabs in France and their prospects for assimilation and success [Nov. 21]. I was startled by his assertion that France needs "to undertake the kind of self-reformation that America did in the 1960s, when it finally began welcoming African Americans into mainstream society." Is he forgetting the 1960s riots, led by unemployed and disenfranchised blacks, that engulfed the U.S.? I don't call that self-reformation. When black people took to American streets, they finally got a little respect. I suspect...
...Krauthammer says appeasement of the Arab world has not helped the French resolve the issues of its Arab citizens. How are the French appeasing the Arab world by enforcing a law that strictly bars young girls from wearing Muslim headscarves in public schools or by opposing the war in Iraq? That is not appeasement; that is self-interest. Like all other multicultural nations, France will have to effectively integrate minorities into its mainstream society. The problem is an internal socioeconomic one, and it has nothing to do with Islam or the broader problems of the Middle East. Murad Elsaidi Little...