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Marine Le Pen

Tariq Ramadan

She is the daughter of Europe's best-known far-right firebrand

He is Europe's most controversial Muslim intellectual

We are at a turning point, and if we don't protect our civilization it will disappear," she said

If Europe wants to succeed, it needs more immigrants," said Ramadan

If we go on like this, Europe will no longer be Europe, it will turn into an Islamic republic," insisted Le Pen

"We need to stop Islamizing the problem, and we need to stop talking about minorities," he said. "I tell Muslims: You are not a minority, you are citizens. You can have a different culture and a different name and still adhere to the same laws and democratic values."


but why don't they give their children French names to show that they want to integrate?

He added: "How can we preach European values if we don't apply those values in the way we treat immigrants in the first place?"


What we need is a new narrative, a new 'we,' a multicolored, multicultural European identity