Hillel Fradkin

Robert Leiken

John O'Sullivan

The recent spate of riots in France provoked a major international debate about France's once-heralded republican model of social integration and a new focus on the future of Europe's largely unassimilated and predominantly Muslim minority communities. The fact that these riots followed the Madrid and London bombings and have since been succeeded by anti-Muslim riots in Australia raises many unsettling questions. Is the multiculturalism model a solution or part of the problem? Did the French riots have largely economic or cultural origins? Can Muslim minorities in Europe be assimilated? And if so, how?

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