For the second time this year France’s Muslims have seen carnage brought to the streets of Paris by a few radical Islamists and fear that they will now suffer as a consequence.
Muslim community leaders promptly denounced the massacre and politicians clearly blamed the radical Islamic State movement for the violence. But ordinary Muslims fear they will be blamed.
“When you look like a Muslim, it’s tough," said Marjan Fouladvind, an Iranian doctoral student in Paris.
“The way people look at us will change again, and not for the better ... Sometimes it’s preferable to be mistaken for a Jew and not a Muslim because then there are fewer problems.”
