There are still many French people living in these “suburbs” i.e. Housing Projects. Many poorer French, older people on small pensions. They want to take back their streets. Theye are the one who voted for Sarko. As well as many of Arabic origin who are secular, integrated, working people and small business people. They want their quality of life to improve as well.
An important point to keep in mind is that because of France’s colonial past, and strong influence,language, and culture, in places like Algeria, Morocco,Egypt, and Lebanon, many people were already French citizens when they came to France.
Many of them fought and died on the side of France in the Algerian War 1954-1962. After France lost, they moved to France and settled there.
Their children are French, think of themselves as French, speak French, subscribe to Western values, and they are hard-working people.
The danger is the Islamists. Radical Islam. It is very important to remember the distinction.
I’ve met good French Algerians in this category myself.
Not to mention Islamist groups suchas the GIA killed Muslim algerians by the thousands in the 1990s. Many immigrants that came to France since, or even before these horrible times, have parents or friends who were either killed, wounded, or simply threatened by the Islamists.
When all is said and done, Islamist groups probably killed a thousand times as many Muslims as they killed Jews or Christians. Regardless of their positions on other issues, I doubt many Muslims want Imams to run the show in Europe the way they pretebnded to run it in Algeria or Afganistan.