Why France prone to radicalization?

·  5 million Muslims (presently, 7.5% of population but increasing because Muslims= 4-5 children/ couple and others only 1)

·  Live in ghettos, treated as 2nd class citizens=> easy to radicalize.

·  France’s rule in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (the country of Md. Bouhlel’s origin) was sometimes heavy-handed.

·  France did not fulfill promises made during 2^nd world war. (Algerians killed 84 Europeans in Setiff massacre, harsh respose by French)

·  In 1961, during the Algerian war of independence, it is believed that nearly 50 Algerians who participated in an illegal march in Paris were tortured and killed by the French police, with their bodies thrown in the Seine river.

·  Pervasive social media.

·  Muslim Population has sympathy for Islamic terrorism (the Paris Bataclan attack mastermind, Salah Abdeslam, hid in Molenbeek, Belgium) 

·  Text book approach of IS (creating fantasies, making violence desirable, literal interpretation of religious texts)

The France government should look to solve above issues in the long term to take the problem at its roots.