My girlfriend taught in the Parisian banlieue for a year. In her experience most of what is said in this article is very much true. In this areas (which would correspond pretty much to inner cities in the US) the draw of radical Islam is very strong, starting with high school kids. After all what else is there to do? Deal drugs?<p>On the other hand I would like to see this study that shows that increase in the level of education and occupation doesn&#x27;t do much. I suspect the issue is more subtle: in that many immigrants coming from the former colonies of France don&#x27;t really identify as French (even after a couple generations) and don&#x27;t fully accept the so-called &#x27;republican values&#x27;.<p>The fact that many of Portuguese origin are converting to radical Islam seems to me as a further symptom that the power of Jihadism actually stems from socio-economical marginalization.