France has spent decades telling itself the same comforting story: that the children and grandchildren of Muslim immigrants would become more French than their parents. Secular, republican, integrated. The older generation might cling to conservative religious values, but the young raised on liberté, égalité and fraternité would drift towards the mainstream. That assumption has taken a serious blow.

A country that once prided itself on assimilating newcomers has spent the past several decades dismantling the very idea of a dominant national ethos

According to a new IFOP poll, 57 per cent of French Muslims aged 15 to 24 place the rules of Islam above the laws of the Republic. This is up over 10 per cent since 2021. Nearly half express sympathy for Islamist movements. And on every marker o

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