(New York Times) Thomas L. Friedman - I interviewed two 18-year-old French Muslim girls in the Paris immigrant district of St.-Ouen, both born and raised in France. I learned that they got all their news from Al Jazeera TV because they did not believe French TV, that the person they admired most in the world was bin Laden because he was defending Islam, that suicide "martyrdom" was justified because there was no greater glory than dying in defense of Islam, that they saw themselves as Muslims first and French citizens last, and that all their friends felt pretty much the same. We were standing outside their French public high school - a short ride from the Eiffel Tower.
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