“Gary Younge: “Condemning the rioters is easy. They shot at the police, killed an innocent man, trashed businesses, rammed a car into a retirement home, and torched countless cars (given that 400 cars are burned on an average New Year’s Eve in France, this was not quite as remarkable as some made out). But…”

Ah yes, there’s always that ‘but’. Still, read the whole thing for yourself, and see whether you agree that murder, looting, riot and arson deserve our “qualified and critical support.”

And while you are at it, note this: “We heard little from young minority French women last week, even though they have been the primary target of the state’s secular dogma over the hijab.” Could that be, Gary, because most Muslim women in France, for reasons that ought to be obvious, reportedly support the ban on the hijab in French state schools?