An interesting long range analysis of the French and UK response to their Muslim communities, by a French academic, Professor Gilles Keppel: http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=22920

It originally appeared in February 2010, but I only re-discovered it today. He is a sometimes controversial voice, as indicated by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Kepel

Largely for historical reasons IMHO neither the UK or the USA closely look at how France has responded to the violent Jihad and Muslim communities. Plus of course the language barrier.

SWC has looked at French COIN a few times, within other threads and I fear the most visual lesson was watching 'The Battle of Algiers'.

Cross-cultural articles like this are worth reading and so here it is.