"...but means that France ignores the problems that Arabs have in France because they are Arabs."
No quite true. Arabs in France have excluded themselves. They have created their own ghettoes by forcing white French people out of the Cites.
The few White people living in the Cites in France are being harrassed on a daily basis by Muslim youths.
Young Arabs can go to school but choose not to, with in most cases the blessing of their parents.
Like everyone else in France to get a job you need a minimum of education, if they decide not to be educated it is not the fault of the French system.
People may disagree but that is excactly what ISLAM is about, breed, have ghettoes, blame everyone else for your misfortune and if you do net get what you wish go for the kill.
Please. I've spent time in France and the one thing I've noticed is how much the native Frenchmen don't like or trust the Arabs, don't want their children mixing with them, don't want to work with them or live nearby.
You have two very different cultures brought together on the home turf on one of them. Not surprisingly, they don't get along. However one side has carried nearly all the negative effects from that conflict. It's unfortunate that the native French people and even Maghrebian Jews have been driven out of the HLMs, they have to find somewhere else to live, but better to not be able to live in a few crappy housing developments and still participate in all the other aspects of society than to have your own ghetto with no jobs or hope for the future.
Also, Muslims do seem to be doing much better in Britain. There is a hardcore that doesn't assimilate, turns to terrorism etc. but there are hundreds of thousands of Muslims who have assimilated pretty thoroughly in Britain.