The Issue: Increasing violence around French protests crosses the line to full-scale rioting, arson and looting.
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violence → increase → rioting
France is burning, and its leaders seem shocked by the flames (“France on fire,” Oct. 18).
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leaders → burn → fire
The violence attributed to radical-left rioters should serve as a wake-up call.
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violence → attribute → call
France for years has struggled with mass immigration, assimilation and the preservation of its national identity.
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France → struggle → identity
It cannot afford to tolerate those who resort to violence and antisemitism.
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who → afford → violence
A country that welcomes newcomers has every right to expect respect for its laws, traditions and citizens.
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that → welcome → laws
Consider the humble potato: Drop it into boiling oil, and it becomes a french fry.
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it → consider → oil
France has been sitting in boiling oil for years.
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France → sit → years
Now, instead of producing fries, it is getting burned.
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it → produce → fries
Jay Hill
Boynton Beach, Fla.
Your editorial is a much-needed reminder of what the riots in France are really all about (“The Target Is France Itself,” Oct. 19).
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Target → need → France
I traveled to France many times in my past career and saw a country not paying attention to a growing problem.
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country → travel → problem
Integration into the mainstream was ignored.
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Integration → ignore → mainstream
We have similar avoidance issues in the United States.
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We → have → States
Hopefully, more emphasis on the real issue — an attack on civilization — can start to be understood at home, before we end up like France.
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we → start → France
It is time for Americans to take a good look at what is happening in Europe, especially in France.
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what → take → France
If those on the left continue to vote for extreme leftists that allow crime to rule, we will end up with the same nonsense.
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we → continue → nonsense
In fact, it has already started.
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it → start → fact
The nameless couple smoking and enjoying a glass of wine were really celebrating the last moments of freedom in France before complete surrender (“Showing their cool under fire,” Oct. 20).
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couple → smoke → fire
Not only have the French riots demonstrated the failure of East and West cultures to coexist, it also shows a lack of leadership in France and the abject failure of socialism.
Michael O’Brien
Manhattan
When you let masses of illegal immigrants swamp your country and even pay them, in some cases more than working-class citizens, this is what happens.
I’m afraid it could happen here.
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it → demonstrate → citizens
Look at Paris; this will be America in four years or less.
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this → look → years
Let in radicals from terrorist countries, and this is what you get.
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you → let → what
They hate France.
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They → hate → France
They have no interest in assimilation.
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They → have → assimilation
They’re all on welfare, making no contributions to France.
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They → ’re → France
Will Americans wake up, or will they vote for this to happen here?
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this → wake → ?
The Post is a much-needed exception to media outlets choosing to “report” that what’s going on in the streets of Paris are student demonstrations regarding education.
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going → need → education
What we are actually witnessing is a Marxist attempt to change the ideology determining how France and other European nations are governed.
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France → witness → ideology
France is in the midst of chaos led by a mix of leftist anarchists, Islamists and undocumented malcontents.
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France → lead → anarchists
With no loyalty to France, they riot daily, destroying property and historical buildings.
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they → riot → property
With no loyalty to America or its political system, we see attempts to uproot our values, allies, faith and more.
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we → see → values
Isn’t it time we assert our rights and return to normalcy?
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we → assert → normalcy
Decades ago, Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East.
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Beirut → call → East
After this last weekend, the real Paris is looking like Beirut.
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Paris → look → Beirut
Maybe leftists in Europe should have worried about their own countries more than a tiny piece of Jewish land thousands of miles away.
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leftists → worry → miles
Evan Grollman
Highland Park, NJ
The factors causing the riots in France resemble the Democratic Socialists’ platform for changing America.
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factors → cause → America
This will happen to America if socialists take control of the House and Senate.
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socialists → happen → House
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