It seems that French prisons are filled with Muslims. Although Muslims only form 12% or so of France’s total population, they form 60 to 70% of the country’s prison population. 70%. Although, according to researchers, criminologists and Muslim leaders ‘immigrants and the children of immigrants are disproportionately represented in almost every prison system’ on the European continent, France is overdoing it a tad bit.

 ”The high percentage of Muslims in prisons is a direct consequence of the failure of the integration of minorities in France,” said Moussa Khedimellah, a sociologist who has spent several years conducting research on Muslims in the French penal system.

In Britain, 11 percent of prisoners are Muslim in contrast to about 3 percent of all inhabitants, according to the Justice Ministry. Research by the Open Society Institute, an advocacy organization, shows that in the Netherlands 20 percent of adult prisoners and 26 percent of all juvenile offenders are Muslim; the country is about 5.5 percent Muslim. In Belgium, Muslims from Morocco and Turkey make up at least 16 percent of the prison population, compared with 2 percent of the general populace, the research found.

Sociologists and Muslim leaders say the French prison system reflects the deep social and ethnic divides roiling France and its European neighbors as immigrants and a new generation of their children alter the demographic and cultural landscape of the continent.

Although it should be obvious that the immigrants themselves are - to a very large degree - to blame for this situation, there’s certainly truth to the claim that European governments have failed integrating Muslim immigrants, and that - as a result - our prisons are filled with either immigrants or their children.

The fact of the matter is that the immigrants were cuddled to death. They weren’t forced to integrate. They weren’t forced to adopt a modern and democratic lifestyle. Our governments told them: ‘Don’t worry about that integration nonsense. You are special. You don’t need to adapt to our culture.’

The result? The immigrants and their children didn’t understand the country they were living in and, also importantly,  it became difficult if not downright impossible for many immigrants and their children to find a job (even if they wanted to; many immigrants quickly profited from our welfare state). And what do you do when you feel alienated, like you don’t belong, and when you don’t have a whole lot of money? Right, crime.

And that’s what has happened in Europe: immigrants didn’t take the responsibility to integrate, and governments didn’t force them to integrate regardless of whether they were lazy or not.

And it takes, as usual, conservatives to clean up the mess, who are then accused of being ‘racists.’