"united in sorrow" - i.e. enervated in passivity
Spain and many other EU countries are madly in love with these stupid demonstrations, which they do every time they are attacked by ETA, Muslim terrorists, or practically the next door neighbor's poodle. But really, "enervated in passivity" sums it up, because they feel that by getting out and whining they have actually done something. And maybe they have, because whining is the only thing they are capable of doing any longer.
They don't understand that it's a completely different ballgame. These kids don't want jobs, they don't want assimilation into the corrupt French society, they want to rape, pillage, burn, and murder, and they want to cut off French heads as trophies.
I will grant that French arrogance, snobbery, and racism created a situation in which these people were easy prey for Islamic Supremacism (which I call Islamism for short), but that's a done deal, a fait accompl/i>, if you will, and the only thing left for the French is to fight, adapt, or die.
p.s. I think I'm one of the few that uses Islamism as a short version of Islamic Supremacism, since most people prefer Islamofascism. I don't think it's so much a political movement as a racist movement and it reminds me of good old fashioned White Supremacism more than anything else.