The assimilation required by France’s integration policies is at odds with the liberty that its citizens championed in the streets of Paris on Sunday.
French policies — and the French elites who sustain them — mistakenly assume that there can be no unity in diversity, no liberty in their fraternity.
France today is an amalgam of peoples from more than 100 countries. They all chanted “Je suis Charlie” — but in very different accents. One of every five French babies born today, according to French demographers, has at least one foreign-born parent. French Muslims, largely immigrants from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal, make up between 5 percent and 10 percent of the population — roughly 5 million people. Yet French integration policies do not acknowledge this demographic shift.
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