Today comes the news out that Muslims in Amsterdam, After the attacks in Paris, more often targets of discrimination, intimidation and even violence. This is evident from the responses that arrive at a new Hotline for Islamophobia. Today a Muslim tells of Amsterdam her story to the local television station: She walks in the morning to school and a man comes to meet her hard bike on the sidewalk. They have to jump aside to avoid a collision. He shouts: “terrorists like you should like to be cleaned up in Paris”. Other messages in Amsterdam are in the trend of buses that drive to a stop and people who do not want to sit next to women with headscarves.

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