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I think part of the subliminal issue is that France once had to defend against perpetual Islamic invasions from the Spanish Moors. Perhaps in the French psyche, this is perceived as another invasion of sorts. Cultural rather than with arms. By immigrants and refugees, rather than warriors.
How do you erase hundreds of years of fear? Spain was ruled for 600 or more years by the Islamic Moors.
Moiraine? Are you reading this? What do you say? Is a remnant of collective cultural fear at least in part driving the "concern" with the rise in Islam? You would know better than I.
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