PARIS: Thousands of people marched in Paris and other French cities against Islamophobia targeting Western Europe’s largest Muslim population.
Muslims joining the march through the rainy streets of the capital say they have had enough.
While anti-Islamic attacks are not new, several recent events helped catalyze this protest. Last month, two Muslims were shot and seriously wounded outside a mosque in southwestern France.
France’s conservative Senate also approved an amendment banning veiled women from accompanying their children on school outings. The lower house is unlikely to pass it. But it followed an incident where a far-right lawmaker demanded a woman visiting a regional council to remove her headscarf — leaving her son in tears.
