Social exclusion of young Muslims chided

The social exclusion of young Muslims in France partly explains their radicalisation, and the government must give people from poor suburbs more hope of success to reduce the risk of more violent attacks, a cabinet minister said on Sunday.

Following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris which killed 130 people and stunned France, several senior socialist ministers as well as conservative and far-right opposition leaders have said poverty or discrimination could not excuse violence.

But, shifting the emphasis in the debate, Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron told Canal Plus television: “Exclusion is a fact of life in France. I am not saying that this explains or excuses what has happened, but those young people who have been radicalized ... often have no more faith in society.”

At least four of the gunmen who killed people in cafes and a concert hall in the suicide bomb and shooting attacks in Paris were French citizens. Some came from a depressed neighborhood of Brussels.

Macron is a former Rothschild banker whose efforts to make the French economy and labor market more flexible have come under fire from the left of the ruling socialist party. and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major offensive aided by his allies to regain lost territory.

Assad was quoted by state media as telling Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, that the military support his country was getting from Iran and Russia had pushed the enemy states he did not name to “further escalate and increase financing and equipping of terrorists”.

The Syrian army said on Saturday that Turkey had increased supplies of weapons, ammunition and equipment to what it described as terrorists in Syria.

The senior Iranian official was quoted as saying that his country would continue to support Syria as the war “against terror was a decisive one for the region and the world”.

Assad said the defeat of rebel groups fighting to topple his rule was a prerequisite for the “success of any political solution decided by Syrians”. Christie’s shared penchant for blustery speech, but argued that Christie has the experience to defend the U.S. from the Islamic State, as well as defeat Hillary Clinton in the general election.