‘Hands off my church’ petition plays on French worries about Islam

PARIS — More than 40,000 French have signed a rousing “Hands off my church” petition in recent days denouncing a Muslim leader’s casual remark that some of France’s many empty or underused churches could be turned into much-needed mosques...
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