What Are The Parisians Thinking?

I have to admit - I've gotten a bit of a chuckle from the recent riots taking place in the 'morally superior' France. It struck me that France's recent Muslim Riots and this week's Youth Riots were related someway, but I couldn't place my finger on how. Via OpinionJournal.com's Political Diary (please subscribe), the answer comes in an excerpt from a piece in the Times of London by columnist Theodore Dalrymple:

"The sight of millions of Frenchmen, predominantly young, demonstrating in deep sympathy and solidarity with themselves, is one that will cause amusement and satisfaction on the English side of the Channel. Everyone enjoys the troubles of his neighbours... Whether they know it or not, the people on the streets in France were demonstrating to keep the [predominantly Muslim] youth of the banlieues -- who recently so amused the world for an entire fortnight with their arsonist antics -- exactly where they are, namely hopeless, unemployed and feeling betrayed. For unless the French labor market is liberalized, they will never find employment and therefore integration into French society. You have only to speak to a few small businessmen or artisans in France -- the petits bourgeois so vehemently despised by the snobbish intellectuals -- to find out why this should be so. The French labor regulations make employment of untried persons completely uneconomic for them"

France, and Europe in general, are in a great deal of trouble, far more than America is. They are being destroyed from within. They just don't know it yet...