112 Cars Burnt Each Day...

112 cars burnt a day.
15 attacks on police and emergency services personnel a day.
Almost 3000 police officers injured.

You'd think those statistics for this year would refer to some place like Iraq or Afghanistan. They actually refer to France. The attacks are perpetrated by Muslim youth.

Some people have been arguing that this violence is caused by the poverty and despair of the Muslim youth in France, that poverty is a prime motivator for social violence, and that the answer to it all is surely more welfare and assistance. That theory doesn't hold water when you consider that the vast, overwhelming majority of the poor in this world do not seek to address their circumstances by engaging in violence. Rather, most violence on a large-scale such as what's happening in France tends to be orchestrated and fomented by ideologically driven agitators. That's pretty evident when you take a quick look at history, regardless of the country.

So, what's happening in France, and whatever happened to that so-called religion of peace we all know and love as Islam? (If you didn't pick up my sarcasm in the last sentence - yeah - I was being sarcastic.)