Rioting, calming down in France

Last night: 215 burned cars, 71 arrests. Sunday night: 284 cars, 115 arrests. Saturday night: 374 cars, 212 arrests. The state of emergency has been prolonged to three months. On Saturday the rioting reached downtown Lyon but the police managed to kick the scum out of there.

There were also riots in Sangla Hill, Pakistan. Considering that this is a town of 10 000 inhabitants, the number of rioters, quoted as from 1000 to 2000 in different sources, is quite amazing. Rioters burned some churches, a convent, a boarding house, a medical centre and the home of the local Catholic priest. At first I assumed that this was because the French did not give them enough money, but
the real reason was even more absurd. (A Christian was gambling and won, and the guy from whom he won the money spread a rumor that the winner set fire to the box for preserving torn pages of the Koran.)

Islamic militias killed 12 and wounded 21 in Somalia while fighting for morality and against cinemas that show western and Indian movies. They claimed those movies promote immorality and violence. Uhm...