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Originally Posted by flstf
There are probably religious leaders who will take advantage of the situation.
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This is exactly the spark that Europe (and ultimately the rest of the World) should fear the most, and struggle to address. It's not that large Muslim populations in Europe are inherently violent. It is that they are fertile recruiting grounds for al-Qaeda extremist types who prey on alienated, angry, disenfranchised Muslims (of which France is completely guilty of creating). If France isn't careful, it could become like Egypt, where the government is held hostage by a large, militant population of radicalized subversives. France is at a crossroads, and the example it sets by the way it deals (positively or negatively) with this problem will have ramifications globally.