There are still about 200 days to go before the people of France get the chance to pick their next president, but the electoral campaign is already in full swing.
And what's happening on the hustings is more than just an electoral battle; it's confrontation of ideas about racial integration, and particularly about the role of Muslims in France, and elsewhere in Europe.
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