LEE HOAGLAND | CSP75
With Europe's largest population of immigrant Muslims, France is torn between its democratic traditions and its fears that the country is losing its identity with this huge foreign influx. The government has promoted a debate asking what it means to be French. Meanwhile, there are at least 400,000 illegal immigrants inside the country, according to government estimates. Even with stepped up deportations, only half of that number have been sent back to their home countries, showing that, this issue has reached a stalemate.