Marginalized Muslim spaces grant identity freedom that mainstream society denies

Evidence

This is where I can be me,” Malik said. In Saint-Denis, Malik was just Malik. His ethnicity or beard or his religion, especially his religion, did not set him apart as somebody to fear. “This is where I feel free … or close to it.” Or as close as somebody can get to that elusive light of freedom, being Muslim on the margins of Paris or in the heart of Detroit. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 787

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• XREF: The banlieue as site of ethnic freedom parallels the reader’s Detroit/urban-margins thread and generalizes the American story to France.