Benna and Traore’s deaths sparked three weeks of mass resistance.

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Benna and Traore, seventeen and fifteen years old respectively, were instantly immortalized as martyrs. And in death, inspired a resistance to French racism and Islamophobia that raged for three weeks. The hate, or la haine, was not new to this side of Paris, as memorialized by the 1995 classic film bearing that title, but reached furious new levels a decade later. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 699