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French Muslims Fear Backlash

13:49 - January 09, 2015
News ID: 2687518
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The bloody attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, which left twelve people dead, has made French Muslims fearful of facing more isolation and becoming more vulnerable to Islamophobia.

"At this moment there is infinite hatred against Muslims, I don't even want to remain in France," tweeted one user from Paris, International Business Times reported.

“Who is the true loser from all these attacks? Us, French Muslims. We are stigmatized, people fear us for no reason,” wrote another.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo occurred when two masked gunmen armed with AK47s and pump action shotguns attacked the building on Wednesday.

France's Agence France Presse (AFP) said the men were armed with at least one rocket launcher.

Officials said two police officers were among those killed, and that the other 10 were journalists.

Muslim organizations in France have rushed to condemn the attack on the magazine.

"The UOIF condemns, in the strongest possible terms, this criminal attack and these horrible murders," the Union des Organizations Islamiques de France (UOIF), which represents more than 250 Muslim organizations across France, said in a statement to condemn the attack.

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