There has certainly been quite a few of the trumpeteers of socialism talking out of their ass in regards to the attempts of countries like France to assimilate immigrants into a multi-cultural society and America's lack thereof. At least, so this French article begs to differ (bottom)

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Arab and Muslim immigrants in the US generally identify themselves as Americans and integrate with relative ease into a society that prides itself on social mobility and has more tolerance for cultural and religious differences, Haddad said.

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"To identify as French you have to renounce your

faith and have to renounce you previous identity as though your previous self didn't exist. In the US you don't have to," she said.

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"There's no clear connection between the European and the American Muslim experience," she said, explaining that Muslims in the United States are less isolated and homogeneous than their European counterpart.

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