How would a France that permanently keeps Algeria going to look like? Specifically by enfranchising Muslim Algerians on equal terms (no gerrymandering, et cetera) to French people. I was specifically thinking of some kind of loose confederation where Algeria gets to manage its own affairs and has its own parliament, maybe with a separate territory (or territories) for the pieds-noirs with their own parliament, while European France gets its own parliament and thus gets to manage its own affairs, with only very basic decisions, such as foreign policy and the budget, actually being made on the national level. I would presume that such an arrangement would have open borders between France and Algeria, so instead of having two million people of Algerian descent in France (excluding other Maghrebis and Muslims who currently live in France, of course), European France might have something like 15-20 million people of Algerian descent living there right now, with a total Muslim population of 20-25 million.
I wonder if such an arrangement between France and Algeria might create a push for a similar arrangement between France and its other colonies. But of course such an arrangement wouldn't be very beneficial for France, since it would have to constantly subsidize Algeria due to its lower average IQ and thus greater amount of poverty, with there likely being systemic efforts in France to close the French-Muslim achievement gap similar to what there is in the US over the last several decades in regards to closing the white-black achievement gap. I also suspect that it would be even more dangerous for French people to make Muhammad cartoons and/or to satire Islam in any way in this TL due to the much greater number of Muslims living in European France even in comparison to real life. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Algerians are relatively moderate for Muslims, but there would no doubt still be a decent-sized number of bad apples among them, unfortunately:
Apparently, based on the data above, Algerians are almost as moderate on average as both Lebanese and Turks are. But of course getting Algerians, Lebanese, and Turks to embrace things such as same-sex marriage is likely to take an extremely long time, unfortunately.
I wonder if such an arrangement between France and Algeria might create a push for a similar arrangement between France and its other colonies. But of course such an arrangement wouldn't be very beneficial for France, since it would have to constantly subsidize Algeria due to its lower average IQ and thus greater amount of poverty, with there likely being systemic efforts in France to close the French-Muslim achievement gap similar to what there is in the US over the last several decades in regards to closing the white-black achievement gap. I also suspect that it would be even more dangerous for French people to make Muhammad cartoons and/or to satire Islam in any way in this TL due to the much greater number of Muslims living in European France even in comparison to real life. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Algerians are relatively moderate for Muslims, but there would no doubt still be a decent-sized number of bad apples among them, unfortunately:
The general religious factor among Muslims: a multi-level factor analysis
In the review of a paper submitted to ODP some time ago, the issue of a general extremism factor in religion came up. Unfortunately, Dutton deleted the submission thread, so the discussion is forever lost to history (possibly could be recovered from backups of the forum, but not worth the trouble; Y
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Apparently, based on the data above, Algerians are almost as moderate on average as both Lebanese and Turks are. But of course getting Algerians, Lebanese, and Turks to embrace things such as same-sex marriage is likely to take an extremely long time, unfortunately.
