Original sentence: France's large culturally Islamic population has not socially or economically integrated themselves into French society, leading to self-imposed religious/cultural segregration, especially in the suburbs surrounding Paris.Huntington's argument of an individual's cultural or religious (civilizational) identity trumping concepts such as national citizenship has been cited as explanation for the violent 2005 civil unrest in France and other neighboring European nations.In this optics, Huntington's thesis would be further reinforced by the fact that the rioters in 2005 were not the older, foreign-born French Muslims, but young males, born and raised in France itself
Edited sentence: France's large culturally unassimilated Islamic population has not socially or economically integrated themselves into French society, leading to self-imposed religious/cultural segregration, especially in the suburbs surrounding Paris.Huntington's argument of an individual's cultural or religious (civilizational) identity trumping concepts such as national citizenship has been reinforced by the violent 2005 Muslim riots in France and other neighboring European nations.Huntington's thesis is further reinforced by the fact that the rioters in 2005 were not the older, foreign-born French Muslims, but young Muslim males, born and raised in France itself