France’s other problem — job-killing economics

Published January 15, 2015 4:57pm ET



Islamic terrorists slaughtered 17 innocents in Paris in an attack described as “France’s 9/11.”

The two terrorist suspects at the satirical newspaper massacre are brothers, born and raised in France, children of parents who emigrated from Algeria. Some blame France’s failure to “assimilate” Muslim youth on their attraction to violent jihad. While almost 25 percent of French youth is out of work, the number of young French Muslim people without jobs is over 40 percent. Muslims account for 10 percent of the French population but occupy 60 percent of its jails.

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