University of California, Santa Cruz and Mayanthi Fernando

commuter trains: Its smoking carapace was clearly visible from the commuter trains rumbling by, according to Toronto Star. Every year in France, between 30,000 and 40,000 cars are set on fire. With tens of thousands of soldiers and police on high alert, youth in the suburbs still managed to set a car alight. Typically, they’re lit up in the peripheries of major cities, where second- and third-generation immigrants are concentrated. In some sense it is a cry for a help, but I think it more political than that, said Mayanthi Fernando, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It a number that has remained relatively constant for more than a decade and the most visible symptom of the alienation felt by France estimated 4 million Muslims. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.