I think I was in agreement with you, but for different reasons. 
OnE1!, my friend.
Not behind closed doors, she’s basically forcing a showdown with Hollande over FN participation in a Hebdo memorial rally and making public statements essentially comparing the Hollande government trying to dictate political expression in the rally with the Hebdo shooters.
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Wow…didn’t waste any time, did she.
The premise of this post is that European countries don’t have pluralistic societies. That is a joke which is not supported by any facts. Unfortunately, American media tends to cover Europe only in times of (a) elections, (b) huge crises, and © xenophobic violence. These events happen, but to paint them as a depiction of everyday reality is not remotely accurate.
While France’s Front National has received an alarming number of votes, the German xenophobic and racist NPD enjoyed a smashing 1.3 percent of the vote in the 2013 election. No governing party in any European country is nearly as strongly anti-immigration as the Republicans are.
13 % of the US population are immigrants, but so are 9.4 % in Germany and 7.7 % in the UK (numbers from 2010). Yes, integration is not perfect, but the assumptions of enormous European problems are absurd.
Your numbers are way off. For more accurate numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Europe might have helped. And even if they were correct: they would only be a “threat” if muslims were to form a radical religious party.
In all European countries muslims can be found in all major parties (except the extreme right wing parties), and they are divided across the political and ideological spectrum just like everyone else. In most countries there are muslims in every party in the national parliament, and quite a few even in ministerial rank in their respective governments.