Nominoe, you must remember that while the ostrich's head is in the sand, it's butt is invitingly sticking out.
All you said about the suburban ghettos' youths being poor, unemployed and disaffected may be true, but you're dancing to the enemy's tune with your haughty dismissal of the Eurabia thing.
The reason why you chose to ignore the "good work" of the Saudi Salafist preachers in the French mosques, and their role in inciting the riots as well as the atmosphere of Islamic terror prevalent in these suburbs' schools, is unfortunately no mystery for me. The French appear to have accepted their roles of victims, and are soon to welcome their new masters with wide-open rectums, just like the last time 68 years ago.

What Americans do not seem to understand, is that racism, along with many other kinds of bad behavior, is so prevalent in the French society that the Republic has had to legislate against it. Mrs. Bardot was not merely expressing her concern about disturbing (and illegal!) slaughtering practices, or even criticizing Islam as a tool of conquest, she was spewing hatred in a most unseemly manner, and directing it at a large segment of her compatriots, many of whom having earned their citizenship by fighting -and bleeding- for France, while a large number had had to flee North Africa in order not to be murdered by the above-mentioned Salafists. She richly deserved her sentence.

The French society, with its rigidly compartmentalized professional caste system, and its elitistic, exclusive education system, is certainly not well suited to integrate large immigrant populations, but most of these make it through, especially these who want to integrate. The Portuguese of the 60's (not the 50's, these were Sicilians and other Italians) had it easier though, since they were Catholics speaking a Latin language, and as far as we French Jews were concerned, the easily recognizable kinship (i.e., why is Mrs. Azevedo lighting two candles on Friday nights?) certainly helped.
North African Jews, who came to France in the early '60s as refugees, mostly from Algeria and Tunisia, never set any car on fire, and most families were out of the suburban ghettos within 10 years. Very few of the multitudinous, mostly ethnic Chinese refugees from the Indochina war ever made any headlines,  and nobody is afraid of them even though they take pride of their identity and rarely marry outside their community.
The Arabs are a different story. Many of them fled to France because they had fought for France against their kinsmen, or had to leave Algeria precipitously in order to avoid being murdered by the Islamists, but a lot of them infiltrated as the bridgehead of the Jihadi conquest, also making many converts among the disaffected, marginalized young males of the other group. Slurring all of them as Mrs. Bardot did is certainly racism, but refusing to recognize the threat like Nominoe does is equivalent to a national death wish.

Swithwull, BB didn't insult islam but "the population".

Phaid, what you say about the laws is right, however the "incitating racial hatred" is usually applied only for serious cases (or public people). This law is a consequence of the law baning everything related to nazism (opinion, symbols, and so on) which has been extended to protect all others communities.

I hear what you all say, but i'm less pessimistic than you about french muslims. The situation is not as worse as in ME here, and as i said religious violence is marginal in france (burned cars are not related to islam!).

swhitebull

Who's against whom in this Bardot story, by a pro-freedom blogger. Read it all, it's worth it.

Well, that was an interesting article, but it really doesn't change anything.  Silencing dissent is silencing dissent, regardless of the dissenter's broader beliefs.  And it's cowardly in its selectivity, as the blogger even points out, since while BB gets slapped with a lawsuit, imams are evidently free to hurl fatwas from the minarets.

That's an ugly article revealing another author spreading hatred of anything that made France. Insulting Badinter (f* the victims) says it all. Badinter was the man who fought to abolish the death penalty in France, and succeeded. It is considered as a great achievment by a majority of the french. You may not like it but that's a fact.

Then the author victimizes the jews by saying that the justice adressed islam insults and not jews insults. Surely the author does not remember the trials of Jean marie le Pen or Dieudonnée who were fined for similar sayings adressings the jews. And what you say about imams "free to hurl fatwas from the minarets" is just not true. May i remind you the story of the Venissieux imam who was expulsed from france because of his sayings. In France, Jews, and muslims are Equals. In fact the only people you can mock and insult like you want would be the catholics (like me).

Then the authors goes with the burning cars. This urban legend must be stopped : there are more cars burning in UK than in France (75000 a year UK, 50 000 france) By the way how does the US compare in this matter? i'd like to see real data. The fisrt cause of burning cars is insurance fraud (1/3), then  hiding proofs and ADN evidences for stolen cars. And last, urban violence. By the way, i'm still waiting any proof that urban violences are linked to islam. This assertion is just an attempt to turn your desires into reality. Do you really think that scum care about islam? they care about their a**.

What really pisses me off is seeing arabs OR jews who try to import ME situation in a country where BOTH are just FRENCH CITIZEN.  And the fact  that some  americans, israelis, or arabs  would like to see france burning in a civil war is just the reflect of people who cannot support the fact that france lives in peace and try to face it's problems in a democratic way rather than using guns.

What should france do according to you, "waking up" and follow israel example? thanks a lot but keep your "solutions", as we can all see what are the results. Since i can sleep in my bed without fearing a kassam rocket or a suicide bombing, and since my fellow citizens do not have to bomb civilians or fight terrorists, i do not feel that we have lessons to receive.

Sorry for the tone but i'm really angry about this kind of articles.