http://www.nypress.com/18/45/news&columns/olivierguitta.cfm
Olivier Guitta
"Will today's thugs become tomorrow's jihadi? For 40 years, France has turned a blind eye to immigration and integration issues of its at least 6 million Muslims (figures are tough to get since France does not ask for religious affiliation in its census, but French officials have privately acknowledged that the number might be closer to 8 million). The previous prime minister, Socialist Lionel Jospin, said while in office that he did not want to read the French Police reports on the suburbs mostly populated by Muslim immigrants because they depressed him too much."