France restaurant refuses to serve Muslim women

“We are not talking about banning the wearing of religious symbols on the beach. but ostentatious clothing which refers to an allegiance to terrorist movements which are at war with us”, Thierry Migoule, the head of municipal services in Cannes, which instituted the ban, told Agence France-Presse.

O: I don’t want people like you in my place, I’ll make that clear.

“We don’t want to be served by racists”, one of the women said.

A Muslim woman wearing a headscarf visited Le Cénacle restaurant in Paris on Sunday but was forced to leave by the cook, who labeled her a terrorist.

Owner of the restaurant: Racists like me don’t kill good people.

The incident also made waves in the Twittersphere, with social media users expressing their anger under the hashtag #Cenacle. Raising his voice again he shouts: It seems like you didnt understand.

The boss later apologised for his actions amid social media calls to boycott Le Cenacle.

O: Now, you know it, get out.

The owner said that the situation escalated due to the current tensions regarding the burkini in Europe, but also said that a friend had died at the Bataclan attack in November.

The parquet of Bobigny has opened an enquiry for racial discrimination and Womens Rights Minister Laurence Rossignol has tweeted that she is applying to an interministerial anti-racism body “to begin investigations and sanctions against the intolerable behavior of this restaurant owner”.

The killing of hundreds of French citizens over the past two years in attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is leading to much debate about the future of Islam in France.

A high court struck down the burkini bans Friday, but the high-pitched debate that quickly seeped into France’s political sphere revealed raw tensions between the secular establishment and sectors of France’s estimated 5 million Muslims, the largest Muslim population in Western Europe.

The incident comes after a woman was surrounded by police on a Nice beach and ordered to remove her burkini.

Two women wearing hijabs were thrown out of a Paris restaurant in tears after being verbally abused by a member of staff.

In response to the incident, the Committee against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) said it would bring “psychological and legal assistance” to both women.