This is not only a French crisis - all of Europe must heed the flames
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1638739,00.html
Europeans of immigrant descent are speaking to us through a pillar of
fire. They need acceptance as hyphenated Europeans
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday November 10, 2005
The Guardian
In the Bible, we read that God guided his people out of Egypt with a
pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Now the
impoverished youth of France's outer-city ghettoes are speaking to all
of us through a pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Their pillars are made of burning cars - some 6,000 to date - yet this
apparently pointless violence has as clear a message as the one Moses
followed. Europe, which to their immigrant parents seemed like the
promised land, has turned into a new bondage.
Timothy Garton Ash
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