"Seriously, are you for real? 'What Muslims?'"
Yes, I am completely serious.
Here, people look at 10% of French being of North African descent and they say "Muslims".
That is as accurate as saying that France is "87% Catholic".
Religion is an idea. It is not inherited like skin color. It is either learnt and accepted, or not learnt.
The parents and grandparents of the Beurs in France are Muslim, but are the Beurs?
10% of the population, more or less, is Beur.
And of them, less than half practice any religion at all.
Perhaps 80% of the French are baptized.
Maybe 20% of the French are actually Catholic, in terms of actually believing the religion, or attending Church more than once a year (if that).
To be a Muslim, of the sort that threatens the country, requires actual belief. If one uses that as the standard, at most 5% of the population is really Muslim, and that number differs by sex. Religion is passed along by females, generally, not males.
In France, there is some Islam, and a smaller subset of radical Islam, but half the Beurs are secular.
That's why I say "What Muslims"? 4 or 5% of the population are going to take over?
"To be a Muslim, of the sort that threatens the country, requires actual belief."
So a rioter yelling "Allah Ahkbar" while throwing a rock or burning a few cars in one night(multiplied several times and in 16 French cities) is no real threat to the present govenment? Were all the fomentors of the 1789 revolution students of Voltaire and Rousseau, or were they the downtrodden peasantry?