France’s Muslims fear for their futures as Le Pen’s far right party surges

France’s Muslims fear for their futures as Le Pen’s far right party surges

Fatimata, a 22-year-old French Muslim woman, suddenly feels as though many of her compatriots are against her very being. On Sunday, the far right led the first round of parliamentary elections and while it’s not yet clear if Marine Le Pen’s National Rally movement will form a majority after the July 7 run-off, many of France’s six million Muslims are, like Fatimata, paralysed with fear.

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