It has become a privilege to be allowed to practice our religion, said Majda Ould Ibbat, who was considering leaving Marseille, France's second-largest city, until she discovered a private Muslim school, Ibn Khaldoun, where her children could both freely live their faith and flourish academically.
Minane, as for many French Muslim youth, navigating French culture and her spiritual identity is getting harder...I ask myself if Islam is accepted in France, she said.
Minane vividly remembers observing a moment of silence at Ibn Khaldoun in honor of Samuel Paty, a public school teacher beheaded by a radicalized Islamist in 2020.
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