there may be some isolated riots in Germany, too., but the rioters’ heart won’t in it like in France. The conditions just aren’t there.

German police also are a lot less provocative and needlessly aggresive as their French counterparts.

(1) is the more or less forced isolation of the immigrants in France the sole or chief determining factor in the violence there? If not, then the fact that in Germany the Muslims are isolated by choice doesn’t by itself afford full protection from the violence;
(2) is it possible that the rage in France could start to resonate with the more general alienation that some Muslim immigrants feel in other European countries, even if that alienation arises in large part from voluntary isolation from the rest of society?

I’m not saying that the answers are ‘no’ and ‘yes’ respectively, but one ought to consider the possibility that rage arising out of one set of circumstances could attract to itself various sorts of related but less severe alienations elsewhere.

but stopping illegal immmigration won’t be so easy. It’s hard to resist immigration pressure without resorting to serious violence.

Melchior,

those are indeed copycats.

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French Unrest Spreads to Germany

Five cars were set alight during the night between Saturday & Sunday in the dilapidated city quarter Moabit in central Berlin. The night before, several cars were burned in an empty building in the harbor city Bremen in northern Germany.

The police fear that the pattern of unrest in France will spread to poor areas in Germany. They cannot rule out the possibility that the attacks were evoked by the vandalism France has experienced, said a police spokesman.

No one was injured in the fires in Moabit. The burned-out cars were found in five different streets.
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These may well be mere copy-cat events. I certainly hope so.