georgephillip
Diamond Member
France was among the most brutal colonial occupiers during the 19th and 20th centuries, and now the French are reaping what they have sown across the Maghreb:
"The danger of ISIS fighters returning to Europe has already been felt in France, and a recent headline in France’s leading newspaper, Le Monde, even publicly asks what the Islamic State is capable of in Europe.4
"A current example of this danger can be found in the case of Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French citizen and second-generation immigrant, who was arrested for killing three people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May of this year. It is believed that he fought for ISIS in Syria in 2013.
"Nemmouche grew up in Roubaix, a city in northeastern France with a substantial immigrant population and limited economic opportunity.
"His profile was by no means unusual.
"An immigrant mother reported that she and her family live in 'another France' where they experience a lower economic level and an immigrant typecast due to their physical characteristics that mark them as outsiders.5
"If one is perceived to be both Muslim and immigrant, there is a compound effect that carries a stigma resulting in an entire array of lower life chances."
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