Yes and no. Remember the success of Ni Pute Ni Soumise? You do get these unlikely alliances like fundamentalist Christians and radical feminists united against pornography.
They did ally with the right because the left treated them as a plague carriers.
The left-wing, once heralds of feminism and progressiveness, is now torn apart by its Muslim clientelism. The whole left is poisoned by its allegiance to Islam and they still do not know how to solve this contradiction. Meanwhile the right-wing wants to attract the Muslim electorate on the long-term while spitting on them right now. Even the far-right tries to attract a few! And finally Muslims have gave birth to a social-Islamic movement, half socialist (for welfare and immigration), half Islamist (for morale values), and they hope to be what the greens used to be.
We will see many strange alliances in the future: Progressives, Jews and gays voting far-right, feminists voting on the right, ... Between the rise of nationalism (on the left and the right), and the love-hate relationship of parties with Islam, I wonder what the future political landscape will looks like.
Through the many strong muslim women I know I do see hope, but as you say, it is sure gonna take some time.
Like most French people you assume that eventually they will assimilate.
What if it never happens?
For the start we both influence each other. They changed us. Mocking religion was once normal, now mocking religion is seen as severely offensive. We still officially adhere to laïcité but many schools, hospitals, enterprises and administration are already providing halal meals (more expensive), subsides for mosques are commonplace (disguised as cultural subsides), and our government is currently busy setting up additional funding sources, from a halal contribution to public corporations' donations (both mostly involving non-Muslims' money). Within fifteen years, hate speech laws will be used to punish blasphemy and the European Justice Court will likely sanction us for prohibiting veils in schools and maybe among civil agents. Every day we tolerate useless animal suffering in the name of a 7th century's prophet, and every Friday in several cities Muslims openly occupy the streets in front of their Mosques.
So we both influence each other. Will one of us still assimilate the other? Not necessarily, there is no such natural law. It occurred with other immigration sources but they followed very different trajectories and was already assimilated by this time.
And it could be that WE will eventually assimilate to their culture, just like we once assimilated ourselves to the Roman culture even though there were few Romans and they did rule few things. It is not just a matter of numbers, assimilation is led by perceived strength, cohesion, pride, etc. Many French people are ashamed of their culture and prefer to present themselves as "European citizens" or "citizens of the world", and spit on France and its economy as soon as possible. We equated the nation with hate and bellicism since the ww2, and we now do everything possible to replace our nation with... an European nation. Even though France is the socle of our identity, culture and democracy. But Muslims strongly claim their religious identity, their assabiyah is strong while ours is weak, and their communities are very busy. And when it comes to strength we now assimilate brown or dark skin with force and energy, and many envy their virile, patriarcal and violent cultures, and we commonly romanticize this, while ostracizing strength and power when they come from our culture.
Madness, madness everywhere.
I personally think French society is very sectorised in this sense.
Look to the health sector: low levels of discrimination, high levels of black and Arab workers, in senior positions too. The muslims you find here are well integrated, liberal, tolerant, etc etc.
Look to other sectors where you have a hard time even getting hired if you're called Mohammed. You might see a different picture.
This is an interesting remark. I am not familiar enough with the health sector but I suspect it is related to the fact that medicine is one of the few sectors for which we deliver working visas. While other immigrants come from familial immigration or French ghettos, physicians are usually straight products of foreign bourgeoisie. Even before the colonization, westernization was strong among Muslim bourgeoisies: elites openly attempted a political westernization of Muslim societies at this time.