Biópsia da Intifada francesa

"...a critical source of contemporary radical Islamism lies not in the Middle East, but in Western Europe. In addition to Bouyeri and the London bombers, the March 11 Madrid bombers and ringleaders of the September 11 attacks such as Mohamed Atta were radicalized in Europe...

...The identity problem is particularly severe for second- and third-generation children of immigrants...few feel truly accepted by the surrounding society...Integration is further inhibited by the fact that rigid European labor laws have made low-skill jobs hard to find for recent immigrants or their children. A significant proportion of immigrants are on welfare...They and their children understand themselves as outsiders.

It is in this context that someone like Osama bin Laden appears, offering young converts a universalistic, pure version of Islam...Radical Islamism tells them exactly who they are--respected members of a global Muslim umma to which they can belong despite their lives in lands of unbelief...we have seen the exact same forms of alienation among those young people who in earlier generations became anarchists, Bolsheviks, fascists or members of the Bader-Meinhof gang. The ideology changes but the underlying psychology does not.

...Many Europeans assert that the American melting pot cannot be transported to European soil...if so, democracy in Europe will be in big trouble in the future as Muslims become an ever larger percentage of the population..."

Francis Fukuyama, Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2005


P.S. Leiam o que os blogs dos insurgentes parisienses dizem...