French Islamophobia disrupted Muslim schoolchildren’s lives more than the pandemic itself.

Evidence

French Islamophobia is a plague that preceded the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. A pandemic that enveloped the entire world with fear, claimed a frightening number of lives in France, and cleared the classrooms and streets of Paris of their familiar crowds. Despite this, it was the French plague and not the coronavirus pandemic that moved young Farah to conclude, out of fear, that she never wanted to return to those classrooms, and the French plague denied her mother the ability to join her on school outings and trips. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 724