Based on a recent interview in Deutsche Welle online newspaper with Dr. Elham Manea, a Swiss researcher studying Muslim integration issues in the UK for four years, it is clear that the more autonomy Muslim communities have the worse the problem of integration (or lack thereof) becomes. Dr Manea explains how Islamic schools, mosques and sharia councils have created "closed communities" that breed radicalization and actively discourage integration into mainstream UK society.

Something else to consider. Despite hundreds of people being murdered by Islamist terrorists in France in the past two years there have been, to the best of my knowledge, no retaliatory killings of Muslims, unlike Canada where some five or six Muslims were gunned down in a mosque in Quebec. Neither has France elected a far-right government, unlike UK and USA.

Why have the French remained so calm in spite of colossal provocations? The answer could be France's uncompromising secularism.