CONTENTS

      Preface to the English Edition ix

      Paris, Saint-Denis, Friday, November 13, 2015 xiii

      Prologue: From the March of the Beurs to Charlie and the Bataclan 1

PART I.  The Incubation Period: From Clichy to Sarkozy 9

1    2005, the Pivotal Year 11

      The Double Trigger for the Riots 12

      From Profanation to Blasphemy 16

      The Epochal Change of French Islam 18

      The Dialectic of Jihadism 22

      Jihad’s First Terrains 27

      The Prison Incubator 29

2    From Muslims Voting to the Muslim Vote 34

      The “Muslim Vote” 41

      Economic Crash and Identitarian Reactions 43

      Soral and Islam against “American-Zionism” 49

      The Beginnings of the Muslim Vote 53

      Toward an Islamic Electoral Lobby 54

      François Hollande’s Deceptive Victory 58

3    The Merah Affair in Context 64

      The Retrocolonial Backlash 64

      Artigat: From Hashish to Sharia 71

      The Extension of Cyber-Jihad 78

      Omar Omsen’s Grand Narrative 83

PART II.  The Eruption: From Hollande to Charlie and the Bataclan and Their Aftermath, 2012–2016 93

4    French Jihad, Syrian Jihad 97

      Mehdi Nemmouche, Detainee and Jailer 98

      “Oh, my brothers in Allah from France!” 103

      The Lunel Paradigm 109

      The Eschatology of Jihad and Psychological War 124

5    The Reversals of the Muslim Vote 135

      The Rise in Unemployment and Inequality 136

      From Social Despair to Authoritarian Conservatism 138

      The Emergence of Traditionalist Islamic Groups 139

      Secularism as an Irritant 141

      Manifs pour Gaza and Jihad against the Jews 145

6    #CharlieCoulibaly 151

      “May Allah curse France!” 156

      To Be or Not to Be Charlie 170

      Epilogue. Between Kalash and Martel: The Nationalist Hammer and the Jihadist Anvil 186

      Acknowledgments 199

      Chronology of Events 201

      List of Key People and Organizations 204

      Index 207