Here’s your Paris is Burning wrap-up:

“Banlieues” is the word of the day.

French police reservists called up to quell the violence and enforce new curfews.

The Washington Post has a nauseating piece of apologism painting the rioters as neglected youth just trying to get the government’s attention:

The youths rampaging through France’s poorest neighborhoods are the French-born children of African and Arab immigrants, the most neglected of the country’s citizens. A large percentage are members of the Muslim community that accounts for about 10 percent of France’s 60 million people.

One of Rezzoug’s “kids” — the countless youths who use the sports facilities he oversees — is a husky, French-born 18-year-old whose parents moved here from Ivory Coast. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, he’d just awakened and ventured back onto the streets after a night of setting cars ablaze.

“We want to change the government,” he said, a black baseball cap pulled low over large, chocolate-brown eyes and an ebony face. “There’s no way of getting their attention. The only way to communicate is by burning.”

Boo-hoo.

The NYTimes reports on the first casualty of the riots, Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, 61. Look for the missing words in the Times piece. Hint: They start with “M” and “I.”

OTB notes 10 French officers shot.

Der Spiegel watches the French Flambée.

Austin Bay tracks Jacques Chirac, recalls France’s Algerian terrorist problem, and has more updates here.
Lost Budgie notes a weasel-worded “fatwa” from France’s biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France.

The Anchoress asks: Whence France?

Mark Steyn issues a wake-up call.

More commentary from Paul Mirengoff, who points to additional analysis from Clive Davis and Neo-neocon.

The Truth Laid Bear tracks blog coverage of the riots here.

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