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Policymic has an excellent story<\/a> about Sweden\u2019s reaction to the attack of a pregnant Muslim woman in a Stockholm suburb a week ago. Two thousand Swedish women donned hijabs in support of the woman, took to the social media with pictures of themselves, \u00a0and demanded politicians deal with \u201cstructural discrimination that affects Muslim women.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Policymic<\/a>, the French reaction was \u201cnowhere near as sympathetic.\u201d \u00a0When Argenteuil Muslims were attacked in early June, the French press sided with the police. And two years ago the French tried to institute a ban on burkas and niqabs in public. What accounts for the two different reactions? This might be an interesting question for religion students to debate.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"