Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
monty posted a link to the ISIS magazine a while ago that was quite interesting. There was a lengthy editorial answering this question (more generally than France, specifically). It said that they hate us and will continue to fight us not because of the Iraq war, or Palestine, or any other political reason, but because we aren't Muslim and Mohammed told them to kill us or enslave us unless we convert. They were, like, yah boo sucks, don't bother trying to be nice or make a political settlement, we're going to kill you anyway. Which seemed fair.

France suffers particularly just because they've got loads of them, I think.
There are other factors such as the legacy of Algeria and the French tendency to demand conformity to French identity and norms (which tends to lead to flashpoints with Allans), but yes, it's mostly because there's shedloads of them, they're ghettoised and they have open borders over which weapons and people can easily travel.