Poitiers

Last night on SBS TV, John Saffron, a rather funny Jew comedian, in his new late-night comedy show dedicated to religion, made a couple of gross attacks against Islam.
I guess in a short program you cant attack every religion equally , but the attacks seemed somewhat gross, indeed unfunny.
Is this a good time to be attacking Islam? I feel the same about "AliG" comic, another Jew, who a couple of years ago was all over TV, quite funny, but viewed from another angle, a demeaning parody of "immigrant" ie non-white youth.
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fr.news.yahoo
trois arrestations pour incitation à l'émeute sur "blog"
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Denmarks royalty is parading in Australia, indeed their son has an Aus wife. Perhaps they might attend to the State of Denmark:
americanthinker
Rosenhøj Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in Århus for years.
... He calls himself 100 percent Palestinian, born in a refugee camp in Lebanon 19 years ago, and now out of work in Denmark... stay away. This is our area. We decide what goes down here...
[right wing, racist, anti-Islam bloggers are today the most interesting on the Euro-riots, with the obvious proviso that rightists are always certain they are right. There anti-reflective rigidity can never understand or cooperate or improve, merely rant and hurl invective. When kerosine bombs (only idiots put petrol in bottles) are flying, expect invective.]
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suntimes
October 732, the Moorish general Abd al-Rahman and his Muslim army were not exactly at the gates of Paris, but they were within 200 miles, just south of the great Frankish shrine of St. Martin of Tours. Somewhere on the road between Poitiers and Tours, they met a Frankish force and, unlike other Christian armies in Europe, this one held its ground ''like a wall . . . a firm glacial mass,'' as the Chronicle of Isidore puts it. A week later, Abd al-Rahman was dead, the Muslims were heading south, and the French general, Charles, had earned himself the surname ''Martel'' -- or ''the Hammer.'
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15-year-old Banou from Mali and his 17-year-old Tunisian friend, Ziad. They were electrocuted to death. A third boy survived but was seriously injured. A rumor that the police had driven the two boys to their deaths quickly began to spread.
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..the drug dealers, or ka'ids, as they are known, also have a territorial demand and "want to create a space outside the Republic,
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cell-phone text messages to coordinate their incendiary flash-mobs,
in Clichy-sous-Bois, where it all began, calm was restored after the fourth night by young men from the local mosque. The government was thankful and hopes similar measures can work elsewhere. Some analysts are wary. Calling on mosques to restore order "validates the postulate that Islam is the answer to everything," says Dounia Bouzar,... Yet without the mosque, it would seem, the only option for the people along allee Albert Camus is what the author of "The Stranger" called "the tender indifference of the world."
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