Muslim schools caught up in France's fight against Islamism

Last year, Sihame Denguir enrolled her teenage son and daughter in France's largest Muslim private school, in the northern city of Lille some 200 kilometers (125 miles) from their middle-class suburban Parisian home.

The move meant financial sacrifices. Denguir, 41, now pays fees at the partially state-subsidized Averroes school and rents a flat in Lille for her children and their grandmother, who moved to care f