Don't EVER call Dalrymple a ninny or a fool.
As for assimilation, there's no reason why West African immigrants couldn't have been assimilated as they often are here in the US.
European policies and cultural attitudes prevent anything resembling real integration and assimilation, not only of the cultural kind but economic.
But anyone knows this, apparently not you. Don't try to pigeonhole these riots into the Islam/West template, because while that element IS at play, these 'youths' parents were far better citizens than their children and granchildren. You can't just blame Islam for that.
Why not? He's both.
As for assimilation, there's no reason why West African immigrants couldn't have been assimilated as they often are here in the US
Assimilated to WHAT? Hip-Hop culture? What nut planet do you inhabit?
As folks be saying, you craaaazy, man.