She would probably be at least partially right if she had said "I see no link between Islam and the current violence". From what I read the current situation is not a case of islamofascist terrorist attacks against French infidels. That will come later. Right now this is more like the race riots that have occurred here. But the undercurrent of islam is certainly present and you can bet the house that the islamofascist terror groups have a hand in encouraging this and will leap to exploit it by pushing hard to recruit members inside these French ghettos.
I think that the French authorities are stymied on how to handle this. If they take effective measures to extinguish the riots they fuel the hatred and resentment that lead young moslem men to islamofascism and terror attacks. If they stand back and let the criminal gangs and disaffected malcontents retain control of these places they leave large recruiting grounds open for the terrorists as it is from criminals and malcontents that they get virtually all their members. Their choices here are between terrorist groups exploding into action in the short run or the long run.
They could also choose to forceably deport several million people but the problems with this approach are huge. First they would have to actually round up all these people. Then they would have to find somewhere to send them. There is no guarantee that Mali, Morocco, Algeria, etc. would allow these people to come back. The French might have to use force (or a credible threat of force) to get other nations to take these people in. Even if the French authorities could be certain that millions of deportations would be accepted by other nations it is unlikely that these millions would go quietly. It it is quite likely that major police and probably military action would be needed to remove them all. An attempt to deport all these people could easily result in insurrection on a very dangerous scale.
The Europeans have left themselves wide open to this. Their short-sighted foolishness could very easily result in a conflict of immense proportions. I see no easy way out of their predicament.
"I see no easy way out of their predicament."
The very definition of...
"to be hoist with one's own petard"
Liberal country problem = "French authorities are stymied on how to handle this. If they take effective measures to extinguish the riots they fuel the hatred and resentment that lead young moslem men to islamofascism and terror attacks. If they stand back and let the criminal gangs and disaffected malcontents retain control of these places they leave large recruiting grounds open for the terrorists as it is from criminals and malcontents that they get virtually all their members. Their choices here are between terrorist groups exploding into action in the short run or the long run."
Conservative country solution = Just start shooting the ba$tards.