Rise of far-right in France after Paris Attacks

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67. I quite understand what racism is , thank you.

(1) I made abundantly clear my strong distaste of anything Front National. However you seem not to have read what I wrote: that party had a long history of cosying up to any and all Arab state that was anti-Israel. If the Front national has a pet racism, it is antisemitism, while displaying philoarabism.

(2) OK, so you acknowledged that there is a significant proportion of young people of immigrant background who actively refuse to assimilate. Then you ask, why should they? Maybe because it would help them get an education and get jobs? Why is it the many kids of Chinese or Vietnamese origin integrate? Even in Primary School, they take extra tuition organized by the families; Confucean work ethic. While I did acknowledge the French government should have done more -maybe some degree of quotas-, there is a negativity among people of north African origin which borders on hostility = vicious circle. That has to do with the politics in Algeria where France is the bogeyman beaten upon by politicians of all stripes whenever there is rain or storm.

(3) Ataturk? A puppet? Read a bio of the guy, very much his own man, thank you. Strong leaders who built the independence of their countries held political Islam at bay. Sukarno interned Islamists. Nasser reformed Al Azhar in a reformist way, keeping the dogmatic Muslim Brotherhood at bay. literal, political Islam is an obscurantist force in the way of modernisation and prosperity.

(4) The terrorists are not isolated individuals. They apply some verses of the Quran literaly, as preached by the literalist clerics of political Islam and with the support base of the 30 to 50% of Muslims who ascribe to literal, political Islam (polls on demand)