Muslims in France guard Catholic church in wake of Nice attack aleteia.org
In a show of solidarity with French Catholics — but also as a way to combat prejudice against their own community — some Muslims in France have begun to stand guard outside Catholic churches.
A horrific attack inside the Catholic cathedral in Nice recently prompted Elyazid Benferhat, a Muslim born in France, to gather friends and stand watch outside their own local Catholic church during All Saints Day liturgies. Benferhat, whose mother is from Algeria but who considers himself “more French than anything,” was already troubled by instances of attacks carried out by Muslims against French citizens, including the October 29 beheading of a teacher who had shown his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad…
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