"Assimilated to WHAT? Hip-Hop culture? What nut planet do you inhabit? "
Do you know many West African immigrants to the US or even met any? I'm sure there's a great number that find the 'hip hop' culture alluring, but the most articulate, intelligent and hard-working black men I've seen have been from West Africa (if one looks at it in as an aggregate.)
Did basics like this escape you? What is it you are trying to accomplish in this thread? You are making the Paris situation EXCLUSIVELY one thing when it is actually a combination of factors. This is not liberal-speak for excusing the behavior of the thugs that run "the Zone" but an explanation of why it is the way it is there and guys selling drugs and practicing psychopatholigical criminal behaviors and wearing 'hip hop' clothing is NOT an example of jihadism. If anything, you also missed Dalrymple's point about the allure of more militant Islam as a way of funneling that hatred into a more "meaningful" outlet, but that means there's a distinction between teh thug who is of Muslim ancestry and the one who takes it up as an alternative to normal underclass living.
Thanks for your articulate comments.