Well what are they gonna do? Say they don’t believe in those neighborhoods?
they’d be slaughtered and their family put through heck.
The muslims in name only, I mean :)
It would take a very courageous group to at least say, “hey, we’re her now. Let’s try to fit in.
It depends on the neighbourhoods (banlieus) — some of them (not St Denis) are like Detroit ghettos - bad schools etc. and difficult to escape from.
Others are not ghettos and/or easy to escape from - and many Maghrebin DO that and basically renounce Islam. The ex-Muslim movement is big in France. Note though - nearly all leave Islam for atheism, not for Christianity.
You have people like Rachida Dati born to to a Moroccan father, a bricklayer named Mbarek, and an Algerian mother, named Fatima-Zohra. She was the second child of twelve in an impoverished family, and she spent her childhood in Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy in a banlieu
Even though Dati was raised in a devout Islamic environment, she attended Catholic schools. She studied at the University of Burgundy, where she received a master's degree in Economics, and at Panthéon-Assas University, where she received a Law degree.
Or you have Zinedine Zidane, the French football star who describes himself as 'a non-practising Muslim'.