France will continue to experience much greater difficulties integrating their Muslim population than America experiences

There are very few serious articles about Arabs in France in the US media. It's all about the Muslim menace, or French racism, or economic decline (or all 3, usually), mixed with stunning ignorance of facts on the ground.

Arabs in France are more secular than Christians in the US, they intermarry with other French people, and are getting integrated into the mainstream just like Italians, Poles and Portuguese were over the past 3 generations. They have the problems of low income groups and neighborhoods, plus discrimination that's been fanned by the very same rightwing politicians that use immigration and fearmongerign to push the very economic policies that make things worse for them.

Please consider that anything that's written on Muslims in Europe bears the same relations to reality as articles on "socialism."

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes