Paris Burning: Not about race, immigration, but frustration

By Gwynne Dyer in yesterday's Winston-Salem Journal:

The riots in Paris are not a Muslim uprising. They are not even race riots. They are an outburst of resentment and frustration by the marginalized and the unemployed of every ethnic group.
The low-income housing estates that ring Paris and other big French cities are the dumping ground for everybody who hasn't made it in the cool 21st-century France of the urban centers, and they include the old white working class as well as immigrants from France's former colonies in Arabic-speaking North Africa and sub-Saharan black Africa and from all the poorer countries of Europe. Unemployment there is often twice the national average of 10 percent. But they are not Muslim majority communities, or even non-white majority.