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In wake of attacks, one French Muslim asks: does my country love me?

In wake of attacks, one French Muslim asks: does my country love me?

ELIZABETH PINEAU  NAOUELLE  Garnoussi is a devout Muslim who was brought up in France, prays five times a day, enjoys her job working with local communities and covets her designer handbag. Raised by her grandparents - one Muslim, the other Catholic - the 36-year-old identifies as French, and defends France's secular values that separate religion from the state in public life. Yet in the aftermath of a spate of Islamist attacks she has begun to feel increasingly alienated in her own country. Compatriots tend to see her as a Muslim first, she said, and the government's response to the violence…
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