>>>"Any long term solution is going to require serious economic reform."
Yes, I agree. That's called deportation, exile, banishment, eviction, expulsion.
Yes, I agree. That's called deportation, exile, banishment, eviction, expulsion.
That will help in the shourt run, and I agree that it's the right thing to do.
However, France's economic policy will continue to produce higher and higher unemployment. It will continue to create more and more people without hope.
If they manage to expell all muslims from France and keep them out, that will delay facing the results of their economic policy a bit longer. Theri government can even stir up hate against Muslims to direct the hate that comes from economic despair away from the government for a while. After all, that's what dictators in the Middle East have been suing Israel for successfully for decades.
If you keep desporate people's anger on someone outside their control to effect, you can keep them submissive. If that anger becomes directed at the government, you end up with a revolution.
Right now the French are blamming everything they can on the US, and therefore political opposition to the US is a means of survival for them.
However, their economic situation is getting worse, not better, and their lies are wearing thin among their own people.