hehe LoL! Reading the name of the tread...
I mean, how many times world as a whole was on the edge, or countries having totalitarian or fascist regimes have been devastated? How many millions have died because of nacism and how many because of multiculturalism? I mean sorry man, but how unobjective and plain stupid can it be? I mean, what is next? When there is someone found with children pornography on his computer, someone will open thread "internet fails...again" or will it be "computer fails again". Or when there is someone having bad grades in school, does that means that "school system fails again" and we should change it because of this?
I am always amazed as people having liking for extreme ideologies can find "proofs" they are right everywhere.
France as most western countries i just formally multicultural. To be really multicultural, country should kind of mix traditions, and I think this is not really possible except in case country was a mixture of traditions and religions in the first place. It is naturally a bit more easy for USA to be multicultural when its own roots are made on different religions and nations (partially) building new country, or with the Asian countries that have mixed many religions and cultures there for thousands of years, like India. France is not muticultural, it is christian, white, european state that was trying to stay open but I do not think it is really possible, because it has monolitic identity as most of the europen countries. It can be changed only if it is broken first.
Happenings there are natural price for France to pay, and is logical result, as is always case with ex-colonial powers. For instance, they were ruling Algeria, made them came in contact with their culture, even today a lot of of the Algerians speak French fluently. So when Algeria is on its own, and there are people who want to immigrate somewhere, their most natural choice are their ex rulers, they know the language and their way of life. So it is just a natural payback, happening in west a lot in recent years. Finally, I don't belive in that idealistic "Multiculturalism" as I don't believe in technical equality because people are trully different. So there is no way you can take their culture and way of life from Algerians or any other group of immigrants and make them live like europeans, with european morale and way of thinking under the mask of "mutliculturalism" and "integration into society". That just won't work.
Only thing they could do was to have very rigorous policy with immigrants, but now it is too late. I guess they (white french citizens) will have to pay the price in redefining the identity of their society, and it will be a bitter pill to swallow.
Only way to make solutions to this kind of problem is to give more equality to the world, and I know it sounds kind of idealistic, but it is very simple and logical. There is no reason for Canadians to emmigrate to USA, or for masses of Sweeden born people to look for better life in Norway, reasons are obvious. But west have build big part of its wealth an power based on unequality and using riches and working force from poorer countries. Now those people want a piece of this cake too, and it is normal. If they were content with their life in their homeland, there would be no need to go to somewhere else. So responsability of France starts in time they were masters. What they could do in past was to stay responsible and help Algerians build strong and independent society. In that case there would not be immigrants in France, at least not that many of them. There is always simbiosys between master and servant, and in their search for power many keep forgetting that.