Reply #1: Cure France of the Aryan fallacy? Someone's asking a lot.

[TheMadMonk]

There is a huge difference between a Frenchman and a French citizen.

Francophilic purity is virtually pathological in the Frenchman.

On paper France is very liberal with it's immigrant and colonial citizenry. However, the real France of the true Frenchman is not at all open to such. They may inhabit the land, but can't be a true part of the country.

In most lands with "open" borders, the pattern is that the first generation of an immigrant wave would work very hard at the worst jobs (no matter their prior qualifications) to make a place for their children or at least grandchildren in their adopted land. This does not appear to be happening in France. There has been very little penetration at all into the Middle Class by the most recent wave.

And there is now a great deal of resentment. Problematically, the greatest amount of resentment is in the Muslim population. And it makes fertile soil for the seeds of fundamentalism and extremism.

A good many of these kids are university educated, but they can't get jobs better than flipping burgers at McDonalds.

I do not approve of their methods one bit, but I can understand how they might think (or be talked into thinking) that this campaign of escalating violence is the only option to achieving redress.