Yes, I agree with you. "Little heads full of merde" would have been far more polite. Sorry if I have shocked some younger readers, christian or not.
I wonder sometimes how many of Europe's and France's Arab population is Christian or at least non-Muslim.
Due to the french colonial history, most of the muslims in France are arabic and from the Maghreb (litteraly "The West" in arabic) : Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. A few are from Lebanon and other middle-east countries. The non-arabic come mainly from Black Africa and Turkey.
It's difficult to say how many muslims are in France because there are no official statistics about race, origins or religion in France. The law strictly forbid to ask these questions to french citizens (and foreigners). The muslim population in France is estimated between 5 or 6 million (about 10% of the french population). And, due to the same law, it's almost impossible to know how many arabics are christians or non-muslims.
A recent poll shows that more than 80% of the muslims in France fast during the Ramadan. But the day to day practice is less important.
Wow. Strange that such a centralized bureaucratic government would choose to function without such basic demographic information! I would never have guessed that. I suppose the government has ways to estimate pretty accurately though.
While we in America tend to celebrate how well we have integrated immigrants from Muslim countries, the unspoken truth is that it's a snap to integrate Christians from Muslim countries in the West. So if most of our immigrants from Muslim countries are Christian and most of Europe's are Muslim, of course we're going to look good by comparison. So we shouldn't be patting ourselves on the back quite so much. Furthermore, of the Muslims we do have, many of them are 'bad Muslims' who aren't very observant. Heretics or backsliders would be how devout Muslims would describe them.
Thanks for the exchange. Your posts, like MadIvan's and JohnHuang's, make FR a more rounded place.