Countering Islamophobia in France

Abstract

This chapter identifies ten key dominant Islamophobic narratives and ten key dominant counter-narratives to Islamophobia operating in France. Islamophobic narratives were found to fix Muslims collectively as—in descending order of prevalence—a threat to security, unassimilable, a demographic threat, an Islamisation threat, a threat to local, national and European identity, responsible for excessive women’s oppression, essentially different and violent, incomplete citizens and a risk to the majority, and essentially homophobic.