The denunciation of fundamentalism in France embodied in the law against theveil and the deportation of imams has shifted into a systematic attack on allMuslims... » 

The denunciation of fundamentalism in France embodied in the law against theveil and the deportation of imams has shifted into a systematic attack on allMuslims and Islam. This hostility is rooted in the belief that Islam cannot beintegrated into French?and consequently secular and liberalsociety. Howeveras Olivier Roy makes clear in this book Muslim intellectuals have made itpossible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world whilemaintaining the identity of a true believer. They have formulated a languagethat recognizes two spaces that of religion and that of secular society. «