Until the Barcelona terrorist attacks, it seemed as if Spain were almost immune to anti-Islamic sentiments. But the number of Islamophobic incidents has increased dramatically since then, and Spanish Muslims are worried.
On the afternoon of the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Fatima El Himer, 17, and her sister Haffssa, 20, had gone shopping in the center of their hometown Granada. They were about to catch the bus back home when Fatima noticed a group of Spanish ladies talking about them.
“We overheard them say that it was a disgrace that we were out here shopping while in Barcelona people had died because of people like us,” she says. “I was shocked. I had never heard anyone say anything like it before.”
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The sisters were small children when they moved with their parents from Morocco to Granada. Fatima says she has always felt very…
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