So much for 'the end of history', huh? (Incidentally, Fukuyama wrote a sensible piece on the riots in last week's WSJ.) Europe has been pursuing the 'end of history' idea long before Fukuyama articulated it. After the two conflagrations of last century and the collapse of colonialism, (Western) Europe decided to be 'good', (or goodie-goodie, as Doris Day would say,) secular, super tolerant of unassimilated minorities (mea culpa for the Holocaust), and blissfully ignorant of the history of movements and conquest. Religion, to the leaders, academics, intellectuals has become little more than a harmless Sunday (or Saturday or Friday) activity, just an opiate of the masses. To disregard the role of religious faith in the Middle East and Africa has been the ultimate expression of ethnocentrism, or Eurocentrism, or as we Americans like to ignorantly call (everything) 'racism'.
Unfortunately, we Westerners forgot to send the memo about the end of history and the superiority of our culture to the masses of Muslims we've invited into our midst. Now what? Expell the native born muzzies from France (Belgium, Sweden, US, etc) to where?
I imagine that the nations of Eastern Europe so eager up to now to join the economic paradise of borderless united Europe are watching these events intently. And I expect that Europe, if it is to be saved for Christianity and Western values, will be saved this time from the eastern direction.
Expel native born Muzzies to where? Good question.
These rioters have certainly surrendered their right to be considered French. A policy of shooting as many rioters as possible, and then following that up with harsh policies against the radicals and trouble-makers would probably be a good beginning.