"I will never accept that respect for a religious stance leads to the curtailment of criticism, humour and satire in the press," he said.

Great, Danes!

My opinion isn't as exciting as saying this is the "Battle of Eurabia" or "The Paris Intifada." I can't see any difference with these people and those who bashed in Reginald Denny's head.
Denmark will be interesting, though.

I agree...
It's not so much the "The Paris Intifada" as it is a rebellion against authority and involves an unhealthy mix of muslims and criminals, mainly muslims.

Mark Styen (http://www.radioblogger.com/#001126) has a good article on when he was in that neigborhood that potray's an acurate feeling of the mood 'inside' there. There is the possibility that the riots will continue to spread which will cause a destabilization of the current French administration. I don't know which way it will go after that although if I was a betting man I'd toss a fin on Le Pen's group.

Good articles here for further elucidation:
http://www.hughhewitt.com/

I was just reading about pirates off the coast from Somalia (I'm assuming that means they were from Somalia) who tried to hijack a private cruise in the Indian Ocean. I think it's the same mentality, same problem.

Just saying, storms and public opinions and such don't send a lot of us into rioting and looting. Otherwise, for those who do resort to rioting and looting, there IS a racial element, more than what most people are willing to even discuss due to name-calling that ensues.

And it's because of that occurence that some others advocate living in safer areas, controlling access, things like that. Interesting because throughout human history, so have most of our ancestors...going so far as to carve out homes in hillsides approachable only by ladder and/or hanging ropes, houses built in the middle of lakes with barricades and watchtowers, entire communities surrounded by moats, guard towers and high walls. They didn't go to those extremes for nothing.

France harbored 'em, took their UN Food bribes, sold 'em weaponry, wouldn't help us straighten out Iraq, and even openly criticized our accomplishments there.
We fought WW-I, and WW-II for 'em, we're really busy, what with Iraq, Afghanistan, Hurricane recovery and all, I sure hope they don't take offense when we turn 'em down for another bailout, if they need us to cover for them.

Is the photo attached to this article supposed to make it more believable? The truck is not the "real deal" It is a model or just a computer generated fake. My trucking background allows me to see this.
On the riots in France- this puts the French government in a very strange, unusual position. These muslim extremists are a non-structured unit. They have no visible leader for the French to surrender to. A very difficult situation. Always in the past, in every hostile encounter, the French have been faced by an enemy with a face. Surrender was much simpler for them.
The French are the first to believe that the definition of Peace is: "The absence of War". Using that mentality, surrender is more than an option- it's the only way! nuf sed

Frankly Opinionated...that image was broadcast live as it occured just as you see it depicted, live over the airways as millions of us watched during the last L.A. riots. Then broadcast again and again and again, for days on end...not only this captured frame imagery but the full history, the full episode as it occured.

The driver stopped because of rioters in the streets, and when he tried to ask someone whattheheck, that guy there dancing grabbed him and pulled him out of the truck he'd been driving, and then hit him in the head with a brick or some other heavy object thrown into the guy's head, which caused the guy (driver) to fall to the ground as you see depicted here.

Then the assailant (black guy in this frame) danced around the fallen driver, laughing, and then picked up another object and struck the driver in the head again when he tried to get up.

Everyone viewing this live (me included) thought the driver had been mortally wounded but thank God, the guy recovered. He recovered and he never said he was angry with the guy who had assaulted him. Said he forgave him, the whole crowd who'd assisted in his attack.

What I think we see here is either an oversharpened frame of the filmed (photographic) sequence, or else an overpainted version for purposes of making it more clear as a still frame. But, I assure you, this incident occured as you see it here, in this one frame, but also in the whole sequence before and after this frame. Because I watched it. Live. This looks more like an overpainted rendering (atop a print from a freezeframe of the filmed sequence) for purposes of clarity afterward. The sequence was filmed from a hovering helicopter and thus, would almost certainly be compromised in focus in any still frame from the sequence.

To "S". If this is a "retouched" photo; it is very retouched, even to hand inserting "truck thingys", (as non-knowing folks call'em), mostly in the wrong place. I am very aware of the incident, even had news photos for quite awhile. I used this incident, and others, to illustrate the MSM and how it accentuates the negative. They only gave the rescuer a paragraph or two, and massive coverage to the Zeroes who committed the acts. The true photo of the truck, showing visible damage was surely much more impactive.
To those of us in the world of "Florida Cracker", keep your eyes on this mess in Eurabia! It will make you very proud and very happy to be living in a land of laws. Not their stupid oppressive mandates, but real laws of the people that we enjoy. nuf sed?

"Retouched" as in DRAWN, a similation. Someone appears to have used the original reel of liveaction images to create, manually, a clear rendering based upon the images. I tried to go into great detail about that in the earlier comments but perhaps you didn't read them.

Courtrooms and various other significant media events use this process all the time to LEND EMPHASIS TO SCENES that are not as easily viewed in single frames from live-action frames...especially when filmed from moving vehicles as this news reel was.

You take one frame, you use that to "illustrate" UPON the frame, as in a tracing, and then you end up with a rendered version of the photographed image. Not an illustration results but an actual "tracing" with focal amendments, inorder to make a moving, blurred, marginally focused single frame (that is understandable to the eye when viewed in projected, full frame images, a "moving picture" version) comprehensible when stopped in a single frame.

Endless versions similar have been done of, for example, the Kennedy assassination from several of single frames from the Zabruder film of the event, and significant events otherwise.

You may just be stuck in curmudgeon and needing to prove some point but I can't imagine what that may be. I'm not arguing with you but just trying to provide you with some information.

Sorry, "simulation" not "similation."

It also is more than likely image material used to present the happening to others. It can't be called, literally, an "illustration" because it's a drawn image based upon live action film footage.

Yes, it's obviously a rendering. I'm just trying to provide you with some filling here such that you can be assured no one is trying to pull something over on you, which is what I'm pretty sure is what's on your mind. Yes, it's an obvious rendering but yes, it substantiates the liveaction filmed footage that was shot that day of that event by a cameraman with a handheld video camera hovering overhead in a moving helicopter.