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Liberally translated from the French from Muslim Immigration to France. You won't Be Able to Say You didn't Know: In 1968 the French population was 49.7 million people. Muslims in France were 610,000 or 1.23% of the population. In 1988 the French population was 56 million. Muslims in France were 2,000,000 or 3.6% of the population. In 2009 the French population was 67 million. Muslims in France were 8,000,000 or 11.94%. These are official figures, which are likely to underestimate the real number of Muslims. France's Muslim population has been multiplying by at least 3.5 every 20 years since 1968. If this growth is not...

As I write, it is exactly a year since the desolate banlieues of France erupted in an orgy of violence, on a scale which had not been seen for generations. At the time, these riots were blamed on social exclusion. Since then, it has become clear that the rioters are not just 'immigrants' or 'youths', but are first and foremost Muslims. When they set light to a car, their cry is often: 'Allahu akhbar!' ('Allah is great!') The violence, moreover, is endemic and ubiquitous. In 2005, there were 110,000 incidents of urban violence, including 45,000 vehicles burnt out. This year,...

<p>PARIS -- The phone message is one of 10 waiting for Sylvain Zenouda at the local office of the Jewish Community Council of greater Paris: A gang of 15 North African teenagers, some of them wielding broom handles, had invaded the grounds of a Jewish day school on Avenue de Flandre in northeast Paris the previous evening. They punched and kicked teachers and students, yelled epithets and set off firecrackers in the courtyard before fleeing.</p>