I will note a few things:

1. The Dutch have been talking about Muslims pretty much through the latter half of the ninetees. And maybe before, but before I wasn't paying attention. For us, talking about Muslims is not new. Nor is it new for the US press to talk about problems with Muslims in Europe, including France.

2. The unitary idea/myth of France and the fiction of equality, combined with the thorough meritocracy of France, have better effects for integration of minorities than the policies of other countries. The problems of French minorities are poverty problems and are as much due to poor urban planning as to racism, with religion hardly figuring in.

3. This does not mean, however, that the French system can be transplanted to wildly different political cultures. And that means that steps in the direction of the French system may well have negative effects on integration in countries like Spain, the UK and the Netherlands. Integration is a complex problem with a long history.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

Bold mine. The Muslim part is the only point the diary factually addresses.

Nomad, just in that quote, Mark Steyn is defining immigrants [and their descendants] as "Muslim", the very practice Jérôme rails against.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}