..approach to an issue that (especially) at this time requires sensitivity more than a little basic for a society as advanced as France. Of course the airports need to be secure, and of course that's why the French, like every other modern nation, has an internal secret service to counter subversive elements bent on acting against the state's interests. And this is precisely why I'm amazed that they couldn't be a little more deft and incisive in their approach. If anything, it smacks of an intelligence setup severly lacking in just that - intelligence. They don't know exactly who to arrest so hey, just quarantine the lot of them!

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is precisely what will test an ordinary law abiding French Muslim's patriotism. Thats too heavy a cost I'd say.