The choice of their country of burial reveals the country in which muslim families feel at home, and the one in which they consider themselves just expatriates.
While native French people, whether favorable or hostile, are a majority to think that muslims want to settle permanently and consider themselves French, statistics seem to indicate that to the eyes of 4 out of 5 muslims, it is simply their muslim country of origin that they consider to be their true country, a land on which it is worthy to be buried.
According to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), “normally, about 80% of the deceased [muslims] are buried in their country of origin.” In the Maghreb (North Africa), according to Le Parisien, post-mortem return is favored by states that, for some, finance part of the repatriation, such as Tunisia. In Morocco, families subscribe to contracts with banks that take care of the funerals.