Muslim Women: Victims of Islamophobia in Europe
In the beginning of this article I will refer to some incident that happened recently in Europe
In France, the Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en France (the collective group against islamophia in France) has drawn attention to several Islamophobic assaults on veiled women, most recently “A 29-year old Muslim woman was attacked in the open street in Basel (Switzerland) by an unidentified woman with blows to the back of the neck and insulting remarks about her dress. The victim was wearing black and an Islamic veil”. there is another more tragic occurrence: in July 2009 in Dresden (Germany), Marwa el-Sherbini, an Egyptian (who was 3 months pregnant at the hearing time), wearing a veil, was verbally attacked in a kindergarten by an unemployed man from Russia, called a “terrorist” and “Islamist slut”, then, at the hearing to appeal the culprit’s conviction, was stabbed 18 times in the sight of her three year old son, this crime has actually received little media exposure.
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