Amidst rising anti-Islamic rhetoric and the likelihood that the conservative, anti-Islamization National Rally Party will soon take control of France, France is allegedly seeing a “brain drain” among its educated young Muslims.
Arab News An atmosphere of so-called “Islamophobia” is pushing French Muslims to emigrate to countries including the UK and Canada, a new book has claimed. The phenomenon has been compared to a “brain drain” by the authors of “France, Loving It But Leaving It,” The Times reported on Monday.
France has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with an estimated 7-10 percent of the country’s 67 million people belonging to the faith. Of the Muslims who have emigrated from France, more than seven in 10 reported leaving in part due to anti-Islam sentiment and discrimination.
France follows a policy of laicite, or secularism, which forbids the display of religious symbols in professional life, including in law, the civil service and education. Many of the Muslims emigrating are among the most professionally ambitious but also the most devout, leading to a clash of values, according to one of the book’s co-authors, Olivier Esteves.
The professor at the University of Lille cited the popularity of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (NR) as also playing a role in the brain drain. The right wing party claims that Islam is an “existential threat to French identity.” Esteves said an election victory for NR would lead to a renewed surge in emigration among professional French Muslims.
“People who oppose Muslim immigration often say ‘it feels like we’re no longer at home,’” he said. “But there are more and more French Muslims who no longer feel at home in France.
“In the next few months, we will see a growing disinhibition of Islamophobic words and behaviour. “We wrote about women who are spat on for wearing the hijab (which is banned in many public places in France) — that kind of thing is only going to get worse.”
Aminata Sylla told The Times that she “could not wait” to leave for Britain or Oman. Sylla, who is studying for a master’s degree in international relations at Sorbonne University, said she was made to “feel like an animal” through a series of negative experiences, including being kicked on the Paris metro for wearing a hijab.
Heh, I saw this story too. Good for France. NOVWL.
Now, I do have my fair share of doubts about what the decline of Christianity portends for us here in the West, but at least French secularism is legit unlike our fake American “secularism” which is really just a code word for “anti-Christianity and Judaism”. Muslims fucked around and found out the French weren’t playing. When the French say secular, they fucking mean SECULAR.
As for us here on the other side of the Atlantic, Trump is our last hope. Four, eight, twelve more years of Democratic presidents, and we are finished. Love him or hate him, Trump is the only candidate standing for America and the West against the globalists, the Muslims, and the Marxists.
Actually french secularism was specifically aimed at catholicism. 2600 mosques in France, more than in UK. Controlled by algeria, morocco, turkey… Laïcité IS a scam, the problem is Muslims, especially the African ones, who are the most stupid. Pakis are freaking geniuses compared to algerians and moroccans. White peoples have non interest in keeping vaguely assimilated ex Muslims, the difference in IQ cannot be mitigated, and they will Never change their criminal ways. So yeah if they could drain their 75 IQ brains the hell out Europe and North America… The Muslim majority Indonesia and malaysia did not persecuted the huge chinese minorities which explain why they are functionnal
Yes, I know that laicite in its original intentions aimed to suppress the Catholic Church. However, it does from time to time at least provide some good pushback against Islamic excesses in certain situations. No doubt there are still a lot of problems with mass immigration and assimilation and multiculturalism issues in France.
Muslim “BRAIN DRAIN” you are so correct their brains are emptied down the drain,
then they become Islamic robots that take instruction from their Iman at their local
mosque.
Good riddance, but they’re going to sucker countries like Canada and the UK.
Lucky France. Only if there was a Moslem “brain drain” near where I live.
I promise not to miss those brilliant doctors, scientists, and job creators. 😂🤣🤣🤣
You can tell the author of this book is a leftist, using all the typical buzz words they so famously use. Once the islamists have power and have achieved their goal of converting France into the next islamic state, the muslims will be done with the left and destroy them, just like they did in Iran. Personally, I think it would be a thing of beauty to see. But I can’t wish that on the rest of France’s society.