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France’s insane student protests are really about a growing radical Muslim population that wants to get rid of democracy

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The French are revolting. It’s a tradition with them. Riots are as French as croissants, adultery and the 35-hour work week.

France’s current riots may, however, presage the fall of the Fifth Republic.

Mobs of students in the streets. Schools going up in flames. Police using tear gas and flash-ball guns. Hundreds of injuries and thousands of arrests.

The spark for the disorder was strikes by left-wing teachers and other public-sector workers, including firemen. The students besieged their schools at once.

The truants claim they’re protesting overcrowded and underfunded schools. 

Nothing says “Please address schoolroom overcrowding” like setting fire to a fireman and filming it. 

Nothing says “Please raise the biggest education budget in the OECD” like a masked youth kicking a policewoman in the head.

The disorder is backed by the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party. Its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is second in the polls for next year’s presidential elections.

The riots, French intelligence agencies told a government crisis meeting on Oct. 1, originated as “an operation organized by LFI (France Unbowed) and its proxies on the far left.”

“LFI has always advocated non-violent demonstrations,” LFI parliamentary deputy Louis Boyard replied.

Meanwhile on the streets of Paris, LFI deputy Thomas Portes was filmed shoving police officers. LFI deputy Bally Bagayoko, who has said that “violence is legitimate,” danced with a student mob at the gates of their school amid burning trash........

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