A representative of the Muslim community in Serbia stands in front of French embassy to pay his respect to the victims of the attacks in Paris, in Belgrade, Serbia, November 14, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

France must work harder to integrate French Muslims in the country or risk further attacks like Friday's assault, according to Victoria Fontan, Director of the Centre for Peace and Human Security at the American University of Kurdistan.

She wrote in the online news site Middle East Eye that the "Je Suis Charlie" movement, which grew after last January's deadly attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, had in effect further marginalised what she called the country's disenfranchised Muslim youth, thus playing into the hands of radical movements.

"Do the French have to keep apologising for the crusades? Instead of taking the Charlie Hebdo shootings as an opportunity to rebuild collective social cohesion in French society, the Je Suis Charlie movement has alienated its disenfranchised youth further," Professor Fontan wrote.

Fontan, who is also a Doctoral Candidate in War Studies at King's College, London, said Islamophobia is still rampant in French society.

"So France is no longer white, and Christian; get over it. Past immigration policies have changed the country's demographics; it is now time to become aware of rampant racism and start to integrate everyone into society, because there is no other alternative that a state like France can take," Fontan wrote.

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