Expatica’s French news in English: Damage done: riots have tarnished France’s image
Expatica’s French news in English: Damage done: riots have tarnished France’s image
More support for the position that France has no right to point the finger of disapproval at the U.S. or any other nation with a smug air of superiority. French society is just as biased and despicable as many others.
More background:
Discrimination
France keeps poor Muslims fed, housed and educated, but has not effectively addressed the social or political isolation they feel from job and housing discrimination.
Many young French Muslims find themselves questioning where they really belong. They have weaker ties than their parents did to their ancestral countries, but they are also discovering that, contrary to what they have been taught in school, they are not fully French.
Already, French-Arabs and French-Africans make up the majority of inmates in France’s prisons.
In April, Amnesty International singled out the violence and racism of the French police towards the non-white people of the suburbs for particular criticism.