Banlieue Islamic culture attracts white gentry youth who adopt Islamic slang

Evidence

In France, “Muslim cool” takes on different colors and contours than in the United States. It attracts youth from all races and religions, even white kids, who come from the suburbs and try to be down, and get down, with the beat of the banlieue. The children of Parisian gentry on the other side of the city who, because of its perceived menace and rebelliousness, mix “asalamu alaikum” and other Islamic colloquialisms into their speech to fit into a part of Paris their parents seldom cross into, and fear. That fear is shared by French politicians and scholars, who see a robust and omnipresent Islam in those French banlieues that could overtake the entire republic. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 742

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the American ‘Muslim cool’ and hip-hop Islam described by Aidi; also echoes the class/identity signaling dynamics from the reader’s article on immodesty moral panics.
• SEED: An angle comparing how anxious majorities co-opt the culture of the very minorities they fear — adoptive coolness as a policing-adjacent gesture.