Fraternal Critique: The Politics of Muslim Community in France

An exploration of ways that discord binds rather than divides communal life, through an ethnography of French Muslim activism.

The conversation about Islam in France is framed by the presumption that Muslim communities are a threat to secular solidarity or fraternité. In the face of state repression, French Muslims have not closed ranks around a narrow range of voices; instead, Kirsten Wesselhoeft finds that young Muslim activists have continued to purposefully spark debate about the valu...