My wife is 100% Italian - a real Italian, not someone whose great-grandfather came from Naples and moved to America. My inlaws live in London and Milan. My wife had a very interesting observation. She said that there will be a point when the whole European world will tip and change completely. Hey, her dad was fighting with the fascists during WWII (yes, her dad and my dad could have faced off on different sides), so I think she knows about European extremism. She sees the real possibility of mass deportations, camps, "ethnic cleansing," loyalty oaths - the whole nine yards. Her comment was that no one is more vicious about these sorts of things than the French. In comparison, she's fascinated about the way Americans dither constantly about this or that instead of just going in and pounding the crap out of the enemy.
Today's Senate hearing is a great example of our dithering. We the people of the US are dependent upon a bunch of "over protected wet their pants if the Capitol if threatened" Senators wanting another bureaucratic layer to intercept INTERNATIONAL Al Qaede calls to the US.
Your wife's observation is correct.
I do not for a minute reject the possibility of Heydrich methods being employed to solve the 'Muslim Problem'. All that political correctness is overcompensation.
The French thought they could bond with the Muslims in a shared anti-Americanism. The riots woke them up. Something about the smell of burning cars. Combine that with the rejection of the EU constitution and the collapse of the Gaullist dream of turning Europe into some kind of French Third Empire able to confront America as an equal. They see now that they had better patch up with an America that has learned that Europeans are useful on occasion but not necessary.
But this was all so inevitable. Once Europe felt threatened wouldn't it, as always, come crawling back to us ?