The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination that is driving increasing numbers of Muslim immigrants to leave the country.

One morning in May, residents of the small French city of Orléans woke up to stickers slapped onto light poles, park benches, and other street furniture. “Muslim-restricted area,” the stickers read — accompanied with crossed-out photos of headscarf-wearing women, bearded men, and figures praying. Below another text read, “A better world without Muslim [sic].”

The stickers, left-wing daily L’Humanité reports, included the URL of a recently jailed Normandy-based neo-Nazi. He was infamous for his T-shirts proclaiming, among other crass and racist things, “Refugees welcome” in the form of th

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