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The riots that engulfed France in the summer of 2023, after a teenager of North African descent was shot dead by police during a traffic stop, showcased the decades-long failure of the French state to adequately integrate millions of immigrants \u2014 particularly those with origins in Africa and the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Immigration without Integration in Europe<\/h3>\n

Soeren Kern | inFocus Quarterly<\/a> | October 5, 2023<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The urban riots that engulfed France in the summer of 2023, after a teenager of North African descent was shot dead by police during a traffic stop, showcased the decades-long failure of the French state to adequately integrate millions of immigrants \u2014 particularly those with origins in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan origin, was killed when he resisted arrest and tried to run over a police officer with his car in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. The 38-year-old officer, who said he acted in self-defense, was subsequently arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter. The French judiciary will determine his fate.<\/p>\n

Merzouk\u2019s killing, which was recorded on a cellphone video and widely shared across social media, unleashed eight days of extreme violence that left a trail of destruction not seen in France since similar migrant-related riots in late 2005. Police said they were \u201cat war\u201d with \u201csavage hordes\u201d of angry rioters with an \u201cus-versus-them\u201d mentality who destroyed police stations, schools, shops, banks, town halls and courthouses, and torched thousands of cars. The riots, which caused more than one billion euros in damage, were contained only after the French government deployed 45,000 security forces, who arrested more than 4,000 rioters.<\/p>\n

Many media outlets and political commentators were quick to attribute Merzouk\u2019s death and the subsequent riots to police brutality and \u201csystemic racism\u201d within French law enforcement. French President Emanuel Macron, apparently seeking to quell the violence, condemned the shooting as \u201cinexplicable\u201d and \u201cinexcusable\u201d and called for justice to be served. French police, he said, are required to do their job \u201cwithin an ethical framework that must be respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if the riots were triggered by police misconduct, the hate-induced arson, looting, and vandalism on such an unprecedented scale point to a much larger failure of governance in France \u2014 especially regarding immigration and integration. For at least 50 years, successive governments have been unable or unwilling to limit mass migration or to properly integrate immigrants into French society.<\/p>\n

Myth of Return<\/h4>\n

To better understand the immigration crisis gripping France and other European countries, it helps to distinguish between at least two different categories of non-Western immigrants.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, there are the recent newcomers \u2014 sometimes loosely referred to as first generation immigrants. During the past two decades, millions of migrants from the Middle East and South Asia, as well as from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, have reached European shores. The migration flows accelerated in 2015, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the immigration floodgates and allowed more than one-and-a-half million refugees and asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere into countries of the European Union.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there are the second- and third-generation immigrants who are European-born children and grandchildren of the so-called \u201cguest workers\u201d who arrived in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s when, in the aftermath of the Second World War, countries such as France and Germany faced labor shortages. The assumption was that the guest workers would eventually return to their countries of origin. Instead, in what is sometimes referred to as the myth of return, they stayed in Europe, became permanent residents, and set into motion endless chain migration.<\/p>\n

In France and Germany, non-Western guest workers hailed mainly from Turkey and from former French colonies in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Many guest workers lived on the margins of the host society and never properly integrated. In France, millions settled in so-called\u00a0banlieues<\/i>, working-class suburbs on the outskirts of large cities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over time, the\u00a0banlieues<\/i>\u00a0turned into blighted and poverty-stricken slums with high rates of unemployment and runaway lawlessness. For the original guest workers, moving to the\u00a0banlieues<\/i>\u00a0was a step up the economic and social ladder in comparison to the conditions they left behind in their homelands. For their children and grandchildren, living there \u2014 where youth unemployment commonly is above 50 percent \u2014 generally is a ticket to permanent despair.<\/p>\n

The second- and third-generation migrants who grow up in the\u00a0banlieues<\/i>\u00a0often are effectively stateless citizens. Although they technically are French citizens by virtue of birth, they frequently are regarded as second-class citizens by the rest of French society. Many have never left France and furthermore do not identify with the culture of their parents or grandparents. They constitute a permanent underclass that numbers in the millions. Many of them abhor France and all symbols of the French state and are a powder keg ready to explode at a moment\u2019s notice. They are the ones largely responsible for the recent riots that laid waste to cities across France.<\/p>\n

Multiculturalism<\/h4>\n

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the deadliest military conflict in human history, European policymakers concluded that nationalism was responsible for the carnage. They surmised that if social engineering could dilute what it means to be French or German, the chances of war in the future would be diminished. This dubious assumption led to five decades of policies promoting multiculturalism through mass migration to Europe from mostly Muslim countries. They permanently changed the ethnic composition of the continent.<\/p>\n

These irreversible policies have eroded the social fabric of France, Germany, and many other European nation states by introducing parallel societies in which ethnic or religious minorities separate themselves from mainstream society and remain segregated rather than become culturally integrated into their European host nations.<\/p>\n

In France and Germany, mass migration from the Muslim world has fast-tracked the rise of Islam, as evidenced by the proliferation of Sharia courts, polygamy, child marriages, and honor violence. Mass migration has also fueled social chaos, including jihadist terrorism, and rising levels of crime, including mass sexual violence against European women, and runaway antisemitism. During the past decade, tens of thousands of Jews have emigrated from France to Israel due to record levels of antisemitism often perpetrated by Muslim immigrants.<\/p>\n

Consider the so-called no-go zones \u2014 lawless areas where the state has effectively lost control, and where native Europeans increasingly fear to tread. In France, the government has identified more than 750 Sensitive Urban Zones (Zones Urbaines Sensibles, ZUS), as they are euphemistically called, home to an estimated 6 million Muslims who are not integrated into French society. These areas have been referred to as \u201cthe lost territories of the French Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Germany, police have identified at least 40 so-called problem neighborhoods (Problemviertel), areas where large concentrations of migrants, high levels of unemployment and chronic welfare dependency, combined with urban decay, have become incubators for anarchy. \u201cIn Berlin or in the north of Duisburg, there are neighborhoods where police hardly dare to stop a car because they know that they\u2019ll be surrounded by 40 or 50 men,\u201d said Rainer Wendt, president of the German Police Union. \u201cThese attacks amount to a deliberate challenge to the authority of the state \u2014 attacks in which the perpetrators are expressing their contempt for our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similar situations are commonplace in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, among other European countries, where governments have failed to fulfil their constitutional duty to provide security and protect and defend citizens. The result is a vicious cycle in which many immigrants reject their host countries, and the host societies reject the immigrants, leading to permanent estrangement.<\/p>\n

Islamism<\/h4>\n

The failure of European governments to integrate migrants from the Muslim world has been a boon for Islamist groups, whose objective is to replace Europe\u2019s liberal democratic order with Islamic law. The purveyors of radical Islam \u2014 who oppose Western concepts of freedom of speech and equality of the sexes \u2014 relentlessly scout deprived neighborhoods in Europe in search of socially marginalized youths who feel disillusioned with their lives and for whom Islam fills a spiritual void.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Verfassungsschutz, BfV), reports that Germany is home to more than 25,000 Islamists, nearly 2,000 of whom pose an immediate threat of attack. The largest Islamist movement in Germany is Salafism, an ideology that seeks to establish a global Islamic theocracy based on Sharia law and is civilizationally incompatible with Western society.<\/p>\n

Encouraging “Dialogue”<\/h4>\n

Despite the growing threat posed by Islamism, Germany\u2019s coalition government recently dissolved an expert working group on political Islamism \u2014 opting instead to fight \u201cIslamophobia.\u201d It commissioned a report about \u201cMuslimophobia\u201d that was produced with help from Islamist groups linked to Iran and Turkey and branded virtually all criticism of Islam or Islamism as \u201canti-Muslim hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n

In France, the French Islam Forum (Forum de l\u2019Islam de France, FORIF), a newly launched Muslim \u201cdialogue forum\u201d established by the French government to fight Islamism and promote an Islam \u201cfaithful to the values of the Republic,\u201d has already been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood operatives opposed to the domestication of Islam in France.<\/p>\n

FORIF is an integral component of an ambitious plan announced by President Emmanuel Macron in February 2020 to preserve the constitutional principle of secularism (La\u00efcit\u00e9) and fight Islamist separatism by creating an \u201cIslam of France\u201d \u2014 an Islam rooted in French society and one that limits the role that foreign governments have in training imams, financing mosques, and educating children in France.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, European governments continue to allow Muslim countries, including Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, to increase their control over Muslims in Europe. This is done by building mosques, Quranic schools and makeshift prayer rooms that are heavily influenced by the national origin of the founder or president of a given mosque, to exert foreign control over Muslims in Europe and discourage integration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are against assimilation,\u201d Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an declared during a speech to the Turkish diaspora in Germany. \u201cNo one should be able to rip us away from our culture and civilization. Our children must learn German, but first they must learn Turkish.\u201d He claimed that requiring Turks living in Germany to learn German was a \u201cviolation of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

In France, a group of retired generals recently warned in an open letter that the country is sliding toward a civil war due to the government\u2019s failure to control mass migration and creeping Islamism in the country. The letter, which, according to polls, had broad public support, also warned against cultural Marxism, runaway multiculturalism, and the expansion of no-go zones in France.<\/p>\n

Demographics<\/h4>\n

Europe\u2019s immigration and integration problems are merely symptoms of a far more serious underlying root cause: demographic collapse. In 2022, every single one of the EU\u2019s 27 member states had sub-replacement fertility rates. Replacement level fertility refers to the average number of children born per woman at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next \u2014 without immigration. In developed countries, the replacement fertility rate is around 2.1 births per female. In 2022, the EU\u2019s average fertility rate was 1.5 births per woman, continuing a decades-long trend.<\/p>\n

When the fertility rate falls below replacement level, the population simultaneously ages and declines, which results in lower numbers of workers available to sustain overburdened social welfare systems. European policymakers appear to have concluded that rather than creating the economic conditions needed to promote increased fertility, it is easier to make up the labor shortfall through mass migration of largely unskilled single males.<\/p>\n

Germany, for instance, will need to take in 300,000 migrants annually for the next 40 years to stop population decline, according to a recently leaked government report. The document revealed that the German government is counting on permanent mass migration \u2014 presumably from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East \u2014 to keep the current size of the German population (83 million) stable through 2060.<\/p>\n

The report implied that Chancellor Merkel\u2019s decision to allow into the country some 1.5 million mostly Muslim migrants between 2015 and 2016 was not primarily a humanitarian gesture, but a calculated effort to stave off Germany\u2019s demographic decline and preserve the future viability of the German welfare state.<\/p>\n

If most of the new migrants arriving in Germany for the next four decades are from the Islamic world, the Muslim population of Germany could jump to well over 20 million and account for more than 25% of the overall German population by 2060.<\/p>\n

The Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties<\/h4>\n

The unprecedented pace and scale of such ethnic change is a recipe for social chaos and is already fueling the rise of anti-immigration parties in Europe. In Germany, half of voter support for the populist party Alternative for Germany (Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland, AfD) comes from people who are not right wing but are concerned about mass migration, according to a recent survey by the Allensbach Institute. In France, Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of the anti-immigration National Rally party (Rassemblement National, RN), is now the second-most popular politician in the country, according to a new Viavoice poll commissioned by the daily newspaper\u00a0Lib\u00e9ration<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the migration flows to Europe show no signs of abating. EU officials expect at least 350,000 irregular migrants to enter Europe in 2023, on top of the 330,000 irregular entries in 2022. The actual numbers are certainly much higher as many migrants enter the EU undetected.<\/p>\n

The UN Refugee Agency estimates there currently are 700,000 migrants in Libya and Tunisia (90 percent of whom are economic migrants), and up to one million in Sudan, many of whom want to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.<\/p>\n

The unrest in France may have subsided for now, but it can \u2014 and almost certainly will \u2014 flare up again at a moment\u2019s notice. The problems of mass migration, integration and demographic decline are not limited to France and Germany. They affect all countries in Western Europe, where governments \u2014 with the possible exception of Denmark, where the Social Democrats have implemented a raft of sensible measures to curb mass migration and promote integration \u2014 are denying reality and appear unable or unwilling to acknowledge that the multicultural model has failed. Europe\u2019s future hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n

Soeren Kern is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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