Fuel Anti-Islam: Museum and Anti-Immigration Policies

fuel anti-islam: This week, deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community were exposed in violence that spilled onto Paris' streets, according to Brandon Sun. Museum organizers said that some French political parties, especially the far-right, have used fear to fuel anti-Islam and anti-immigration policies. We and the Others, Prejudices of Racism, which opens Friday to the French public at Paris' Museum of Mankind, comes at a prescient moment during a divisive presidential campaign that's been rife with anti-Islam rhetoric. In politics, French people, especially young people, are taking on prejudiced attitudes and extreme views because they have forgotten where it leads, said co-curator Evelyne Heyer, a professor of genetic anthropology at the National History Museum. It revisits dark historical moments including the Rwandan Genocide, segregation in the United States, the Holocaust, as well as French colonial rule. The exhibit, which includes multimedia, objects and text, makes for uncomfortable viewing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.