{"id":79479,"date":"2015-11-16T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79479"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:40:07","slug":"frances-muslim-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79479","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s Muslim Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/nov\/16\/paris-attacks-isis-strategy-chaos\/\">From the NYRB<\/a>: France has one of the largest Muslim minorities in Europe. French Muslims are also predominantly a social underclass, a legacy of France\u2019s colonial past and indifference to its aftermath. For example, although just 7 to 8 percent of France\u2019s population is Muslim, as much as 70 percent of the prison population is Muslim, a situation that has left a very large number of young French Muslims vulnerable to absorbing radical ideas in prison and out. Within this social landscape, ISIS finds success. France has contributed more foreign fighters to ISIS than any other Western country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NYRB: France has one of the largest Muslim minorities in Europe. French Muslims are also predominantly a social underclass, a legacy of France\u2019s colonial past and indifference to its aftermath. For example, although just 7 to 8 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=79479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79480,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79479\/revisions\/79480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}