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Muslim Women Thrown Out of Restaurant in France

  • Protesters demonstrate against France's ban on the burkini, outside the French Embassy in London, August 25, 2016.

    Protesters demonstrate against France's ban on the burkini, outside the French Embassy in London, August 25, 2016. | Photo: Reuters

Published 29 August 2016
Opinion

This latest incident comes on the heels of other high-profile incidents where Muslim women were the targets of discrimination.

A video posted online, apparently filmed Saturday, showed two Muslim women in France being told in racially charged language to leave a restaurant.

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“Terrorists are Muslims, and all Muslims are terrorists. This sentence says it all, analyze it,” says the man in the video.

The incident took place at the Le Cenacle restaurant in Tremblay-en-France, a suburb of Paris.

The man claimed he had the right to express his racist opinions because France is a “secular” country.

He then insisted that the women leave, saying, “People like you, I don't want them here. Period.”

Laurence Rossignol, French minister for families, children and women's rights, said she had ordered an investigation.

This latest incident had led some users on social media to suggest that Muslims in France were becoming second-class citizens.

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Racial tensions in France are high after a number of towns chose to single out Muslim people by banning full-body swimsuits worn by some Muslim women, known as a burkini.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in an interview published Sunday that a law banning the full-body burkini in France would stoke tensions between communities and would be both unconstitutional and ineffective.

The issue has become politically charged at the start of party primaries ahead of next year's presidential election in France. Several leaders on the right and far right are trying to distinguish themselves by calling for a law prohibiting the full-body swimwear.

"France needs healing and people coming together, not divisive outbursts by those contesting in primaries," Cazeneuve said.

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