Muslims cry Islamophobia afer two burka-wearing women attacked near Paris - France - RFI
Several hundred residents of a working-class town near Paris took to the streets on Saturday in protest at two alleged Islamophobic attacks on young women wearing face-covering veils. Police have opened inquiries but not accepted that the assaults were hate crimes, according to lawyers.
Organisers accuse news media and politicians of playing down the extent of anti-Muslim prejudice in the country.
The rally was a response to two attacks on young women in the space of three weeks:
On 20 May 17-year-old Rabia says she was attacked by “skinheads” who knocked her to the ground while calling her a **“dirty Arab”** and a **“dirty Muslim”**, leaving her with bruises on the mouth, face and elbow;
On 13 June 21-year-old Leila O, who was four months pregnant, says she was attacked by **two men who tore off her veil, cut off some of her hair and hit her several times, at least once in the stomach - she has since lost her baby,** although police say a link with the assault has yet to be proved.
Two days before the alleged attack on Leila O several dozen people clashed with police officers who were carrying out an identity check on a woman wearing total Muslim cover.
“Islamophobia exists in France, it kills,” protest spokesperson Kamel Raskallah told reporters on Saturday.
Rabia claims that police asked her not to tell the local community about the attack she had suffered for fear of sparking off riots and initial press coverage of the second assault cited investigators’ “reticences” about the victim’s account.
what is excuse of the government apologists in places like france and britian, they quick to blame muslims for making problems what excuse will they have now for a preganant muslim sister kicked to the floor by hooligans and losing her baby!!!