Paris March: Watch the xenophobes now assert their right to protest

Everyone who marched in Paris or elsewhere did so for their own

THE 3.7m-strong anti-terrorist marches in France made for great TV, prompting French President François Hollande to boast, quite inappropriately, that “Paris is today the capital of the world”.

Much less attention was paid to more than a dozen anti-Muslim attacks that have taken place in France since last Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo massacre. That’s too bad, because while it’s unclear how the rallies can prevent further terrorist attacks, it’s easy to see how the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant backlash could cause more of them.