[3AngelaD]

Agree with you about the urban thug thing, but...take a spin around the Internet before you say there is no push for Sharia in France with such certainty.

You might start with: http://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/france-immigration.html

Then look at:

http://actuajihad.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/throwing-stones-at-girls-dressed-to-sexy-sharia-in-france/Throwing stones at girls dressed “too sexy”

Sharia in France.

Or maybe http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008902.php

French Muslim leaders want autonomy, Sharia law

Then there is http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2007/03/23/the-multicultural-endgame-sharia-law-rules-europe

The Multicultural Endgame: Sharia Law Rules Europe

[Alberta's Child]

France is the one place in Europe -- if not the world -- where the government even went so far as to crack down on Muslim headwear in the schools. There's no such thing as a "private" school in France . . . even so-called religious schools are run by the state.

France is proud of their radical secularism, and they don't take kindly to any attempts to change that system. That's why you don't see the kind of radical Islamic nonsense in France that you see in Great Britain. If some imam gets up in a mosque and starts making statements against the French government, he's likely to be arrested by the police and deported from the country with the kind of "due process" that would make Pat Buchanan seem like a Mexican Muslim.