Is France Doomed?

I have read about the problem the French have with their getto areas, called La Zone, for several months. Random violence, young women getting raped, drugs but even after reading all that I was still stunned by reading this account in City Journal.

The average visitor gives not a moment’s thought to these Cités of Darkness as he speeds from the airport to the City of Light. But they are huge and important—and what the visitor would find there, if he bothered to go, would terrify him.

The French have in lots of ways made their own problem and it doesn't look like they will be able to find their way out of it anytime soon. I can almost feel sorry for them. I do feel sorry for the rest of western Europe because if this account is true the country is not that far from total anarchy which would affect Europe and the rest of the world badly, to say the least.

Link via Merde in France.