but. ..madame schnapper. ..napper, whether you understand, whether you can put yourself in the place of a muslim french citizen who perhaps sees things happening in france today and feels that the way they are, the way they look, the way they think, the way they worship is not valued, that they are not truly treated as equal french citizens. and i'll think of two examples. one was just a couple of weeks... a few weeks ago, in a high—profile parliamentary hearing, one french politician, joined by a few others, walked out of a hearing simply because one of the people attending the hearing was a young muslim woman who had covered her hair with an islamic headscarf. now, that, to many muslims, seemed very symbolic. and then there was the question of the interior minister, who, in the wake of the paty killing and everything the government has said since, has been talking about the degree to which he's shocked that he goes to supermarkets and sees shelves dedicated to halal product, what he calls communitarian cuisine