Integrating Islam Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France
France is now home to an estimated 5 million persons of Muslim origin, in a total population of 61 million.1 Roughly half of those individuals are French citizens. While France has integrated numerous waves of immigrants in the past, this new segment of the population, which traces its direct or indirect origins to former French colonies in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and to Turkey, poses new and daunting challenges, much as recent immigration does in neighboring European countries. Because of the size of France’s Muslim population—the larges...
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