Muslims took an active part in Sunday’s Paris demonstration and many have spoken out to condemn the terrorist murders. But they also complain of widespread discrimination and are fearful of a backlash
Just beneath the great white Catholic revival triumphalism of the Eglise du Sacré Coeur, in the north of Paris, is the Goutte D’Or neighbourhood, where most of the population is Muslim. The shops sell satellite TV dishes and Algerian music CDs, bundles of mint and spicy merguez sausages. Young men offer you drugs and contraband cigarettes as you come out of the Metro.By the time I arrive at Rue Myrha, people are pouring out of the prayer room there. Journalists do not have a great reputation among French Muslims, who often hold us responsible for what they complain is the
15 January 2015, The Tablet
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