Widad, a 25-year-old secretary of Algerian origin, notes that when she was a schoolchild in Les Yvelines, intheParissuburbs, four-fifths of her class were North African and only a handful went on to study for the baccalaureate, the school-leaving certificate that is the essential passport to a university or a reasonable job.
And this recalcitrance inthe Muslim world, this attraction to the consolations of hatred, is one of the world's great problems today whether inthesuburbs of Paris and London, or in Kabul and Karachi, or in Queens, N.