Terrorist Stigma Haunts France’s Marginalized Muslims

In the suburbs of Paris, where successive generations of North African immigrants have grappled with unemployment and poverty, a youth worker was pasting up posters for a long-planned neighborhood party in a bleak mood.

The previous day’s attack on a French magazine by assailants shouting Islamist slogans threatens to dim the prospects for the young people hanging out on the street corners of the otherwise lifeless neighborhood, said Mohamed. He didn’t want to give his family name or age because of the feeling of intimidation hanging over his community.