Emmanuel Macron has resolved to be the president who finally eases tensions over France's young and growing Muslim population. Every president since Valery Giscard d'Estaing in the 1970s has resolved to do that. None succeeded, and the stakes have risen with each failure.
On Oct. 16, a Chechen-born 18-year-old living west of Paris decapitated the schoolteacher Samuel Paty, who had lately shown cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad to junior-high-age kids in a civics class on free speech. On Oct. 29, a 20-year-old Tunisian, who had been refused asylum in Italy after arriving by boat the month before, showed up in the south of France. He stabbed to death two worshipers and a sacristan in the Notre Dame Basilica in Nice.
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