The Asia Times Online provides the best explanation I’ve read about the youth uprising in France.
Countering reports from the US that have an Islamophobic slant, Ehsan Ahrari (CEO of Strategic Paradigms, a Virginia-based defense consulting firm), says “The threat to France is not from any purported springing up of jihad. Rather, the chief problem is its refusal to face the fact that multiculturalism is a fact of life inside its border…The continued arson in Paris and its outskirts are manifestations of decades of bottled-up frustrations, heightened feelings of alienation and neglect, as well as a desperate longing to belong to an economic class, where youngsters can dream of having productive careers and happy family lives for themselves. “
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