
Why Does France Hate Muslims? The Death of Nahel with Rayan Freschi
The Thinking Muslim
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The French Government's Fear of Islam
Do you believe that the government is trying to create intense fear within the Muslim community, so that Muslims either assimilate or remain subdued in their suburbs? Yeah, I believe that, and that's not just my understanding, it's something that was expressed by the Ministry of the Interior a few years ago when he said we are spreading terror. So I think there are a lot of similarities with the American context, so obviously it's not the same, but there are some similarities. The French psyche is very much influenced by the colonization and the brutal wars of independence basically, and they lost those wars. And now the grandchildren of those who were illiterate with not a lot of military or physical means
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