Why my family is like France. We both have a failure to communicate.

My trips back to the midwest also mean no internet access, so I have been trying to catch up with everything. Funny, how when I start getting it dialed in I find that we are dealing with the same kind of problem in France as I am in the good old midwest.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.


The French Government, the MSM and various pundits continue to assert that the "rebellious youth" turning France into a flambe are motivated by their downtrodden existence and poor economic conditions not Islamism. This despite video footage of them screaming Allahu Ackbar, interviews stating they were going to make Paris another Baghdad, and this Fox News Report from Greg Palkot. Read it. It's written in an entertaining style and presents a good summary of the situation.

But back to our failure to communicate. Everyone knows a key part in communication is active listening, mais non? Well, someone wasn't listening because the French themselves warned of an uprising in the run up to their current run of becoming the bananas foster of Europe. Read this:

French police investigating plans by a group of Islamic extremists to attack targets in Paris discovered last month that the group was recruiting French citizens to train in the Middle East and return home to carry out terrorist attacks, sources familiar with the investigation said.

Now, what was that thing about Baghdad again?
In the interest of the "two sides to every story" angle. Here's this:

As rioting that began in a poor, mostly Muslim, neighborhood near Paris a week ago continues to spread to other suburbs and cities across France and parts of Europe, U.S. experts and at least one American lawmaker believe radical Islam is most likely responsible for the chaos.