Crossfire War: Western Europe Theatre; Reaping the Whirlwind

By Willard Payne

Night Watch: PARIS -NEAUPHLE-le-CHATEAU - It started when two immigrant youths, being chased by police, or thought they were, died when they were electrocuted in an attempt to cross train tracks in the working class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. [Pravda]

At latest count the rioting and confrontations have affected 40 cities around the country. The crisis has ended the warring feud between two of France's leading politicians, one of them being the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Some are blaming the rioting on his harsh policies on immigration but these problems have been developing for at least 20 years as France and other European countries have been aborbing enormous amounts of immigrant labor from countries whose economies cannot employ them.

Most of them come from Africa and the Middle East or are born into families living in industrial, working class suburbs in the Greater Paris Area and almost all of them are outcasts with usually only sporadic employment. Crime becomes an occupation either of desperation or simply a chance to earn a lot more than the prospect of unemployment. Relations with the authorities are at best resentful.

Almost all of them are Islamic and I've long lost count on the number of articles I've read over the years on their near hopless, depressing condition. A couple of years ago the New York Times mentioned that hundreds of Muslim young men were leaving Europe for Syria and Iran to attend training camps. A European official observed that they looked like foot soldiers. The Jihad is an employer of acceptance, a strange experience for them. It should not be surprising that Islam justifies their hating a society that has rejected them.

What is so interesting is that the Ayatollah Khomeini was based in a Paris suburb for four months when he overthrew the Shah of Iran in February 1979. Khomeini arrived in Neauphle-le-Chateau the previous October and with the enormous communication assistance the French government provided him with he became the principal leader of the coalition of opposition groups demonstrating against the Shah.

Without support from the French establishment, who thought they could use him to cause disturbances in Central Asia only, justifying Moscow's next series of invasions into the region in Tehran's direction, Khomeini would have died in exile in Najaf, Iraq with only a limited following outside Shi'ite religious circles. These current disturbances will subside but Tehran is of course watching and realizes the unifying impact of any crisis involving Islamic people. The Council of Guardians know that this will increase recruitment of agents for terrorist operations inside Europe.

"For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 8:7. This current whirlwind is nothing compared with the first strike Tehran's Defense Ministry is planning for the West. I suspect what will help Paris avoid major damage is that it is the best place for leading governments and societies to display their international influence and prominence with treaties, concords and conferences. But as an added insult Tehran wants Paris to be occassionally reminded of who they were once so hospitable too and thought that they could use. It wound up being the reverse. Khomeini used them.

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