"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?
The great line that divides a French manifestation from an American, or French revolutionary, riot, is whether or not people get killed.
Two weeks of demonstrations, property damage, but only one man killed, by accident. That is neither a riot nor a revolution, nor is it the way that Muslims behave. Muslim extremists kill people, lots of people. French demonstrators burn things and make noise, but do not kill people.
The Beurs behaved like French, not like Muslims.