{"id":268,"date":"2005-11-13T18:37:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/11\/13\/why-is-paris-burning\/"},"modified":"2005-11-13T18:37:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T02:37:38","slug":"why-is-paris-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/11\/why-is-paris-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Paris burning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Front_Page\/GK09Aa02.html\"><i>The Asia Times Online<\/i><\/a> provides the best explanation I&#8217;ve read about the youth uprising in France.<\/p>\n<p>Countering reports from the US that have an Islamophobic slant, Ehsan Ahrari (CEO of Strategic Paradigms, a Virginia-based defense consulting firm), says &#8220;The threat to France is not from any purported springing up of jihad. Rather, the chief problem is its refusal to face the fact that multiculturalism is a fact of life inside its border\u2026The continued arson in Paris and its outskirts are manifestations of decades of bottled-up frustrations, heightened feelings of alienation and neglect, as well as a desperate longing to belong to an economic class, where youngsters can dream of having productive careers and happy family lives for themselves. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Times Online provides the best explanation I&#8217;ve read about the youth uprising in France. Countering reports from the US that have an Islamophobic slant, Ehsan Ahrari (CEO of Strategic Paradigms, a Virginia-based defense consulting firm), says &#8220;The threat to France is not from any purported springing up of jihad. Rather, the chief problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}