My new Daily Standard column discusses the ongoing violence in France, which escalated yet again on its 13th straight night well past the notion of localized riots. With over 300 French towns targeted by well-coordinated tactical attacks, the "disaffected youths" meme can only find acceptance among the media and the French government. The media has gone so far as to ignore its own reporting in assuring us that Islamists have nothing to do with the French uprising:

Various media reports have described the coordination of activities and evasive tactics via cell phones, web pages, and instant messaging. French police have discovered at least one bomb-making facility in the riot zone near Paris and suspect that more exist elsewhere. Despite this rather sophisticated infrastructure of support for the riots and the warnings just prior to the outbreak of the riots they themselves published, the Washington Post's editorial page--and most of the rest of the media--seems stuck on the notion that poverty and a lack of opportunity alone must account for this sudden and growing uprising.

FRANCE--like much of the media--stood foursquare against Bush's interventionist policy in Iraq. So if Islamists have targeted France as their next front in an attempt to establish "no-go" territories in the center of Europe, it might call into question much of the anti-Bush narrative. Instead of Muslim anger being caused by America's policies of intervention, Islamofascism might really be a worldwide movement against Western interests.

I wrote most of this column yesterday in the early morning, and nothing that has been reported since contradicts the column yet. I predict that even a negotiation with French imams for autonomy in the sink estates will fail to budge the media from their lockstep analysis of the French uprising.

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