Paris Attacks Show 2 Immigrants’ Opposing Roles

A hero has emerged from this month's terrorist attacks in Paris. Malian immigrant Lassana Bathily risked his life to save people during an assault on a kosher supermarket. This week, he realized his dream of becoming a French citizen. By coincidence, the assailant was, like Bathily, a Muslim from a Malian family. But the men present two very different faces of Islam and of immigration in France. Bathily immigrated to France at the age of 16 and applied for citizenship several years...

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