I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist it. Just before he committed suicide, Hitler asked, "Brennt Paris?" Meaning, "Is Paris burning?" He had given the order, as Germany itself was going up in flames, that Paris was to be burnt to the ground. Well, it never happened, but it looks like the French are pretty worried that gangs of Islamic Algerian young men and boys might bring their torches into Paris from the French countryside.

The French are scared feckless to tell the truth about the "religion" and national origin of the mobs, and the French press and CNN and its three aging sisters, ABC, CBS, and NBC, are loathe calling what's happening anything but, "a gang of poor deprived youths, from poor city suburbs across France, expressing their frustration,"

In fact, the mob is made mainly from Algerian Muslim young boys and men, living in France. The supposedly "spontaneous" outbreak of frustration is, in fact, a well planned "junior jihad" against the French. The Algerians are brazenly practicing how to burn down France, a few hundred cars at a time, night after night.

The Algerian Muslims have no fear, because they know that the gutless French politicians are too scared of them, and their connection to millions of other festering Islamic savages living in most major European cities. In fact, watch the French government, in the next week or two. The politicians will come up with "social programs" to bribe the "deprived" vandals into putting their matches away. Presumably, the "deprived youth" will then leave the French alone, and go back to beating their women for being poor?

I think Belgium and Holland, too, are in for a little local "jihad jazz," but one place you won't hear of Muslim uprisings is Switzerland. When I worked in Switzerland, there was only one 1960's type street riot, and that was in Zurich. The ever prepared Swiss police sprayed the rioters with a red, un-washable, dye. They then arrested anyone with that particular "riot dye" on their skin or clothes. The arrests took place over several days. There's no "habeas corpus" in Switzerland, so most of the "red-dye-rioters" spent several weeks, and for some, months, in jail before they had a hearing.

By the way, for a foreigner to get a job in Switzerland, he must have the following: 1. A work permit; 2. A residence permit, and (3) his employer must post what amounts to a substantial appearance bond. Any landlord who rents to anyone without a residence permit will go to jail and pay a fine. Any employer who employs a worker without a work permit will go to jail and pay a fine, and is likely to lose his company's license to "perform" in Switzerland, even if it is a "Swiss" company. When "guest workers' "(Turks, Slovaks, Italians, etc.) permits expire, the workers are returned to the border. It's a system that works well, with the onus of the "legality" of the worker placed on the employer and landlord. That's why there will be no "uprisings" in der Schweiz (Switzerland).

To return to the subject, one characteristic (compared to non-Muslims) of young Muslim street terrorists in Europe is that there will never be women in the mob of attackers. It's "men's work," this fun fire thing! The young girls can, under the watchful eyes of their elders, stuff rags into bottles filled with gasoline (benzine?), but the throwing is to be done only by worthy mini-martyrs, the young men and boys.

One might wonder how it is that France would have millions of Algerians living there. The answer is that Algieria is a former French North African colonial possession. Soon after the French were kicked out of Indochina (including Vietnam), they were faced with losing yet another of their economically vital colonies, Algeria. (It was to be a few years later that the French-loving, and naive, and inexperienced in foreign affairs, President Kennedy was tragically suckered by France into assuming the French role in Vietnam, at a loss of 55,000 brave dead young Americans).

In late1954, the French army found itself at war with Algerian guerillas. For the French the Algerians were rebels, but to the Algerian guerillas it was a war of "national liberation." Even though France hypocritically prides itself as the originator and the world protector of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and of the mission civilisatrice [civilizing mission]," they waged a brutal war against the Algerian rebels. That war began in earnest after November 1, 1954. The French were more brutal to the Algerian population than the Nazis were to the Nazi sympathizing French in Paris during WW II. However, forgetting their sorry human rights record in Algeria, France never misses an opportunity to call us "barbarians" in Iraq. Americans should be ever mindful that in WW I and WW II French politicians begged us to save and feed them. We did feed them, and they survived, only to hate us until their next time of need.

The French army fighting in Algeria quickly organized "cleansing" operations, using Chairman Mao's guerilla strategy: sever the bond between the "fish" and the "water," by denying the fish access to the water. To keep the rebels (the fish) from being re-supplied by the peasants (the water), the French army efficiently slaughtered Algerian peasants by the thousands. Those they didn't kill they resettled in "no entry" zones. They considered "every Islamic Algerian" as a guerrilla sympathizer. And to their military credit, the French army was making progress in putting down the rebellion, until their socialist politicians back in Paris lost their nerve. Sound familiar?

The French politicians became concerned when the Genocide Convention accused them of, well, "genocide." It seems that "resettlement," of even those out to kill you, constitutes genocide under Article II (c) of the Genocide Convention. Once the politicians were being blamed, by the left-wing world press, for denying guerillas (because guerillas don't qualify) "Geneva Convention" protection, they did what all lousy politicians do, they turned on their army for "killing innocent civilians." Never mind that it was they, the politicians, who had sent the army to Algeria to fight in the first place. Sound familiar?

Here is how a French novelist (Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, in his novel "Lieutenant in Algeria") accurately depicts the French soldier's predicament in killing guerillas in Algeria, and a scenario that applies to an American soldier's predicament in Iraq (or Vietnam), . . . "Either you consider 'a priori' that every Arab, in the country, in the street, in a passing truck, is innocent until proven guilty--and allow me to tell you that if that's your attitude you'll get your men bumped off . . . or you do your duty honorably, which is to say you put the guerillas out of commission and look after your men the best you can. In that case, there's only one way: treat every Arab as a suspect, a possible rebel, a potential terrorist--because that, my dear sir, is the truth. And don't come back at me with words like justice and charity. They have nothing to do with it . . . you can talk about that stuff back in Paris . . . but here presuming the innocence of possible murderers will cost young men their lives. Our innocent young men, 'our' men." The novelist's words sound a familiar warning for Iraq today, and for future guerilla "wars."

So, today, it's payback time in the heartland of France. Every time an Algerian grandson burns a Frenchman's car in 2005, an Algerian grandfather smiles, for he remembers how the French burned his house back in the 1950's. The Algerian old man must still be pleasantly amazed that the French were dumb enough to allow him, and millions of other Islamic enemies of the French people, to move to France? Allowing unlimited Algerian immigration was, of course, a typical political bribe to settle the Algerian War of Independence. Already, the Algerians in France are thinking, "What will we make them give us this time, those cowardly infidel eaters of unclean frogs?"

Kenneth Kinchen is an independent writer with a background in international business and foreign service contracting.