In The Heat of the Night

As France goes into a second week of out-of-control riots, the French chickens have clearly come home to roost. With close to 10% of it's entire population being largely unassimilated Muslim immigrants, France, and Europe as a whole will increasingly need to grapple with this demographic time bomb. How can a liberal, secular, pluralistic society with negative domestic population growth, absorb ever increasing populations of immigrants from lands that, culturally speaking, represent the complete opposite of the values that the host country (France in this case) purports to hold so dear. These riots may turn out to be a small footnote in the much larger issue of Europe’s growing demographic dilemma, or, they could represent a pivotal eye-opening moment, in which Europeans awaken to the changes that have occurred and choose to change direction.