From the article:

In the summer of 2010, the Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux made the decision to stop the practice of counting the demonstrators, as they claimed it only encourages the Muslim youths to commit such crimes . The current Minister of the Interior said that “the French people should know the truth.”

Thank you for my daily WTF? moment.

But Amy... Bigotry! Don't you understand???

American principles are just "fetishes"....

Well, like the other Euro trash countries, the French brought the Muslims in to clean their toilets (which the French would not do because the social welfare net was too high)

The socialists bought their votes, with welfare benefits, and now they wonder why the Muslim unemployed youths, spend their time rioting in the streets, and torching cars.

If you are scratching your head, as to how this could be allowed to happen, wait a few years, and it will come to a city in the U.S. near you.

Maybe not.

Crid, I don't believe this will happen in the U.S. because of our failure to assimilate Muslims.
Instead it will happen here when the U.S. runs out of money to pay medicaid, welfare, SSI disability, and unemployment.

The way I see it, LBJ bought peace with his great society programs. When we can't pay the Danegeld anymore, the inner cities in the blue states will become anarchy zones.

Mark Steyn is a wonderful, but I'm no longer certain that the Islam of primitive cultures is going to be that big a deal here. No nation is better and handling (at educating, employing and ARMING) women than the United States; every culture of fathers, husbands, brothers and sons has had to deal with this. We incited and exploit uppity; there are no exceptions.

I agree with you that there are worse cultural rifts in motion, though the worst breakdowns are unpredictable.