Europe’s Muslims: France need not take advice from the Brits
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The French-Muslim Connection
Riots Aside, Is France Doing a Better Job of Integration than Its
Critics?
by Jodie T. Allen Pew Research Center August 17, 2006
When Muslim youth rioted in the suburbs of France late last year,
commentators were quick to fault the French “color-blind”
assimilation model. “The unrest in France’s cities shows that social
and policing policy has failed, as well as integration,” read the
headline on an article in the Economist magazine on November 12, 2005.
But findings from the latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey, which
included over-samples of Muslims in four European countries, suggest
that the French model can claim some success, however mixed. Some
aspects of that relative success are especially striking when
compared with the attitudes and experiences of Muslims in Great
Britain, home of the Economist.
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