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Restaurant disapproval of Muslim women service sparks outrage in Paris

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8 years ago

August 29, 2016

An online video which appears to show a restaurant owner calling all Muslims “terrorists” after he disapproved the use of his restaurant for a Muslim women service has sparked outrage in Paris.

Scores took to social media express their disgust over the video which shows two Muslim women in France being told to leave a restaurant by a man, reportedly the eatery’s boss, who called all Muslims “terrorists”.

“Terrorists are Muslims, and all Muslims are terrorists. This sentence says it all, analyse it,” the man said in the video released on Sunday.

Reports say the incident which took place at the Le Cenacle restaurant in Tremblay-en-France, an area on the suburbs of the capital Paris also showed the restaurant owners saying; “People like you, I don’t want them here,” he continued, “you are imposing yourself here […] get out.”

Following the incident, the French minister for families, children and women’s rights, Laurence Rossignol, said she had ordered an investigation and called for sanctions against the “intolerable behaviour” of the restaurant’s boss.

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