Personally, I would also likely support Le Pen if I would have actually lived in France. I would not have supported her father, nor even her in 2017, but by 2022, I came around due to me getting fed up with people getting murdered for "Islamophobic" speech.
Seems like France's future might be rather similar to Israel's or India's. A Muslim percentage of 15-20% and a very nationalistic majority population. (The fact that Le Pen is open to European, Jewish, et cetera immigration doesn't undercut her nationalism; it simply portrays her as a Pan-European nationalist. Israel also had and still has a lot of immigration, specifically of Jews and Jewish-descended people (up to 25% Jewish and their immediate family members).)
Israeli and Indian Muslims have perpetrated pretty much no terrorist attacks. Very unlike France. Israeli Muslims post-10/7 side more and more with Israel over Palestine, and Indian Muslims with India over Pakistan. Can the same be said of France?
Not right now, No, but hopefully this could eventually become the case after people like Marine Le Pen are (hopefully) in power in France for a sufficiently long time period.
Dunno about India, but terrorist attacks by Israeli Muslims are rather commonplace, I don't think the country has gone two months without one for the year-and-a-half I'm in it. Sometimes it's Palestinians who slipped through the border, but quite often not.
As someone who lives in France, I could not agree more.
Personally, I would also likely support Le Pen if I would have actually lived in France. I would not have supported her father, nor even her in 2017, but by 2022, I came around due to me getting fed up with people getting murdered for "Islamophobic" speech.
Seems like France's future might be rather similar to Israel's or India's. A Muslim percentage of 15-20% and a very nationalistic majority population. (The fact that Le Pen is open to European, Jewish, et cetera immigration doesn't undercut her nationalism; it simply portrays her as a Pan-European nationalist. Israel also had and still has a lot of immigration, specifically of Jews and Jewish-descended people (up to 25% Jewish and their immediate family members).)
Israeli and Indian Muslims have perpetrated pretty much no terrorist attacks. Very unlike France. Israeli Muslims post-10/7 side more and more with Israel over Palestine, and Indian Muslims with India over Pakistan. Can the same be said of France?
I’m supporting Le Pen *precisely because* I want French Muslims to behave much more like Israeli Muslims and Indian Muslims.
Not right now, No, but hopefully this could eventually become the case after people like Marine Le Pen are (hopefully) in power in France for a sufficiently long time period.
Dunno about India, but terrorist attacks by Israeli Muslims are rather commonplace, I don't think the country has gone two months without one for the year-and-a-half I'm in it. Sometimes it's Palestinians who slipped through the border, but quite often not.