French stares at hijab-wearing girls signal a longstanding anti-Muslim plague.

Evidence

At the age of nine, she was still too young to know what those stares meant. And too young to understand the depth of the animus that prompted them. But she would learn, with time, and that was precisely what frightened her mother, and what brought a ray of consolation to the thought of her missing school, during these dark days when a swelling pandemic converged with the longstanding French plague. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 697