You know Le Pen never stops surprising me with his ramblings. I wouldn t have thought he would give a damn about Iraq. I don t understand why he even mentioned it. With his previous racist rants and views on immigration. I would have thought he would be far more sympathetic about 9/11 than he would be about Iraq.
Though to be fair he is anti everything so I suppose it makes sense for him to knock 9/11 as an incident. In the same way he brushed off the holocaust and Frances vichy regime.

I know many great people who are truly integrated. In fact whilst in Lorient most of my friend were of foreign origins. However the problems in the "Banlieues" don t surprise me.
My friend who is of Algerian descent and middle class was not able to find work as an architect in France. She had 2 different Masters and years of unpaid work experiance but it all meant nothing for her, I know French people less or equally educated who got a job far quicker.
She knew she wasn t going to get work. She would get so disheartened I can t imagine how someone from a really poor background would feel.
She went to America to be with her husband and got a job in weeks. I know it would be the same in my country. People should get jobs on their ability, experiance and qualifications IMO rather than nationality. My friend was lucky but I can understand people feeling dissillusioned because of work discrimmination.
In Dublin there are so many educated French people of Magreiban origins working their way up from call centres as they can t get any work back home. If some people have such low morale it can turn into hooliganism and crime in some cases.
There is no excuse for the violence and rioting though some must feel there is no point in getting an education if it won t serve anything. I remeber reading a sad article about how women of the banlieues were feeling. Their views on education were pretty much "whats the point as we know it won t get us anywhere".