As predicted...

The French far-right has gone off the reservation. Money quote:

"Le Pen said people with immigrant backgrounds who commit crimes should be stripped of their French nationality and sent 'back to their country of origin.'"

And more scarily,

"We are receiving thousands of new members, tens of thousands of e- mails. All of our offices are submerged, we don't know how to respond because we don't have the staff to reply to the wave of people who, 95 percent of them, salute and approve our positions,"

Although I'm sticking with the gist of my previous post regarding the violent nature of Islam, I endeavored to educate myself a little more about the French situation. It appears that in France we have a permanent underclass mixed in with some racism and a heavy dose of no-growth Socialist governance. There's a nasty miasma over that country. My solution: get those folks off the government teat and get them jobs. How to do that? Reduce the crushing tax burden. And give the rioters a lesson in civil disobediance. For further reading on the nature of the unrest in France, Jim Hoagland had some interesting commentary in the Post today.