So do you journos talk to each other, or what?
From page 1 of today’s Age:
Paris burns to hip-hop beat but Muslims can’t take rap
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The riots, described as France's worst since May 1968, have been linked to the threat of radical Islam. But both descriptions are misleading. The violent unrest is better compared to the riots that burnt down African-American ghettos across the United States in the 1960s.
"It is nothing to do with radical Islam or even Muslims," says Olivier Roy, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam.
He says that although many rioters are from Muslim backgrounds, "these guys are building a new idea of themselves based on American street culture. It's a youth riot — they are protesting against the fact that they are supposed to be full French citizens and they are not."
…and from Tony Parkinson’s editorial on page 15:
Dream of integration mugged by reality on the streets of Paris
AS PARIS confronted a 12th night of rioting by angry hordes of Muslim youths, many in Europe must be wondering whether they are sitting on a volcano. After 60 years of relative postwar stability, is the intifada soon to come to a neighbourhood near them?
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Despite living within a few kilometres of the heart of Paris, it seems a large body of angry and unassimilated Muslims have never seen the French republic as other than an alien entity. More dangerously, some clearly see it as an enemy state.
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In France, as elsewhere, the rise of Islamism appears to be fuelling an alarming and atavistic appetite among young Muslims for what they see as violent revenge.
Paris burns to hip-hop beat but Muslims can’t take rap
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The riots, described as France's worst since May 1968, have been linked to the threat of radical Islam. But both descriptions are misleading. The violent unrest is better compared to the riots that burnt down African-American ghettos across the United States in the 1960s.
"It is nothing to do with radical Islam or even Muslims," says Olivier Roy, research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam.
He says that although many rioters are from Muslim backgrounds, "these guys are building a new idea of themselves based on American street culture. It's a youth riot — they are protesting against the fact that they are supposed to be full French citizens and they are not."
…and from Tony Parkinson’s editorial on page 15:
Dream of integration mugged by reality on the streets of Paris
AS PARIS confronted a 12th night of rioting by angry hordes of Muslim youths, many in Europe must be wondering whether they are sitting on a volcano. After 60 years of relative postwar stability, is the intifada soon to come to a neighbourhood near them?
…
Despite living within a few kilometres of the heart of Paris, it seems a large body of angry and unassimilated Muslims have never seen the French republic as other than an alien entity. More dangerously, some clearly see it as an enemy state.
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In France, as elsewhere, the rise of Islamism appears to be fuelling an alarming and atavistic appetite among young Muslims for what they see as violent revenge.
posted by tim at 01:56
2 Comments:
In that case, no. Parkinson is a columnist writing for the op-ed pages while the other is a news piece.
Parkinson isn't a reporter in this instance. He has much more in common with the person quoted in the news story - they both "reckon" something. The reporter is just writing what other people reckon. It's up to the reader to decide who better placed to make such reckonings.
That's not to say Parkinson is wrong. Just because someone is quoted in the news doesn't make them right.
Yeah, that's fair enough. It's just a bit weird to see something appearing as a highly contested issue on one page and then as accepted fact on the other. I actually think he's probably right that there's a religious element to these riots, but it's a bit of a stretch to see that as the whole issue. It's especially hard to swallow when he has a dig at the left for twisting the riots to support their anti-war agenda, when he is clearly doing the same thing to support his "tough on Islamist terrorists" agenda.
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