Dispatch From the Religion of Peace - Albeit Well Buried

In this post I noted that it took the Associated Press five full paragraphs to reveal that the Parisian rioters are Muslims. Tonight, the AP lowers the bar. Check out this report:

Marauding youths set fire to cars and warehouses and pelted rescuers with rocks early Saturday, as the worst rioting in a decade spread from Paris to other French cities.

A savage assault on a bus passenger highlighted the dangers of travel in Paris' impoverished outlying neighborhoods

Attackers doused the woman, in her 50s and on crutches, with an inflammable liquid and set her afire as she tried to get off a bus in the suburb of Sevran Wednesday

Justice Minister Pascal Clement deplored the incident, saying it caused him "great emotion" Those Frogs sure know how to express themselves in the face of unspeakable brutality - Ed

Rioters burned more than 500 vehicles Friday as the unrest grew beyond the French capital for the first time.

Police said troublemakers fired bullets into a vandalized bus and burned 85 more cars in Paris and Suresnes

Meanwhile, warehouses in Suresnes and Aubervilliers, on the northern edge of Paris, were set ablaze. Officials said other fires raged outside the capital in Lille, Toulouse, and Rouen, while an incendiary device was tossed at the wall outside a synagogue in Pierrefitte, northwest of Paris.

Some 30 mayors from the Seine-Saint-Denis region where the unrest started Oct. 27 met Friday to make a joint call for calm. Claude Pernes, mayor of Rosny-sous-Bois, denounced a "veritable guerrilla situation, urban insurrection" that has taken hold.

A national police spokesman, Patrick Hamon, said there appeared to be no coordination among gangs in different areas

The violence started Oct. 27 after the accidental electrocution of two teenagers

Phew, that's exhausting. We're ten full paragraphs into this story, and what have we learned? On the oustskirts of Paris, there have been multiple acts of arson on buildings, a woman on crutches has been immolated, 500 vehicles burned, guns fired into vandalized buses, an attempted arson of a synagogue, and a state of guerilla insurrection declared by local mayors. And who is perpetrating this wall of violence?

So far, we know this: the responsible parties are "marauding youths," "attackers," "rioters," "troublemakers," and "gang" members. In paragraph eleven, the AP finally reveals what we all knew at the report of the synagogue fire:

Since then riots have swelled into a broader challenge against the French state and its security forces. The violence has exposed deep discontent in neighborhoods where African and Muslim immigrants and their French-born children are trapped by poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, crime, poor education and housing.