I guess I have a different interpretation from everyone else.
By all means, take the riots as a sign that there are dissatisfied unassimilated people in the country. But the only fundamental way to deal with that is to stand up for French (presumably Christian) society, explain what is good about it, and integrate the immigrants into that. Instead of just hoping that if they ignore the problem, or convert France to Islam, it will somehow placate them.
It sounds pretty conservative to me. Of course it has a thick sugar coating of diplomacy on it.
That's definitely true ... but there's a suggestion of a dig at secular amorality there at the end, too.
I agree with you - people are not going to "assimilate" unless the new culture is clearly better than what they've got. I certainly don't want the life modern Europe holds up as ideal.