The Huffington Post quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Nicholas Dungan on the terrorist attack in Paris on the office of the newspaper of Charlie Hebdo:
Nicholas Dungan, a senior fellow and France expert at the Atlantic Council, argues that the root cause of rising racism is a general malaise about the country’s prospects. “If you look don’t think things will get better, you look to blame someone else,” he told The WorldPost. “France has been in a state of drift for some time now, and that drift has led to divisions.”
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Dungan argues that there is no contradiction between these statistics. “French people are politically sophisticated enough to make a distinction between Muslims and fundamentalists,” he said. “There is a lot of consistency in saying, ‘We believe that Muslims are perfectly capable of being good members of society, but we don’t think the values of Islam’ — and they’re likely thinking of extreme examples — ‘fit with our values,'” he said.