[A. Pole]

This reality is light years away from the desire of Gilles Kepel, President Jacques Chirac’s advisor on Islamic affairs, to create "an Andalusia" of multi-denominational tolerance in France.

More about the New Andalusia at THE FUTURE THROUGH FRENCH EYES:

[...] This French alternative [...] aims to create the "New Andalusia", a 21st-century version of what Kepel imagines Spain to have been under Muslim rule, this time in the whole of the European Union. Kepel does not say who will rule but waxes lyrical about his Islamo-Christian Utopia.

"Andalusia must come to symbolise a place where the hybridisation and flowering of two distinct cultures can produce an extraordinary progress in civilisation.[...]

[RobbyS]

Facts is it worked only because the Christians groveled before the Muslim leadership.