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Several countries around the world have decided to forbid the use of the hijab, the veil Muslim women wear to cover their bodies.

French Algerians don’t need ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Paris massacre. We need an anti-fascist movement.

On October 17, 1961, as the brutal 1954-62 Algerian War was drawing to an end, Algerians living in the Paris area took to the streets in a peaceful protest in Paris planned by the independence movement the FLN’s French Federations. They were against a curfew imposed on them by head of the Paris police Maurice Papon. That night, and in the days that followed, Algerians were beaten, executed and thrown into the Seine to drown.

October 17, 1961: A Massacre Of Algerians In The Heart Of Paris

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Framing restrictions as liberating long justified colonial violence.