No, France is not ‘burning’

Al Jazeera reports: It is merely witnessing another episode of unrest that – like many others in its history – has a violent element to it. For the past few weeks, images of burning buildings and devastated shopping streets have dominated international media coverage of France. “France is burning”, “France in turmoil”, “Chaos in France”, the headlines have declared, focusing on the violent element of an otherwise peaceful student movement demanding better conditions for education. To understand why this has happened in the past and is happening today, let us start by examining the word “violence”.

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