Mass protest against Belgian hijab bans drew over a thousand marchers

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On July 5, 2020, at the Mont des Arts Square in Brussels, over a thousand people stomped on the pavement as they protested a measure to prohibit headscarves in Belgian colleges. The mass action was the largest of many that broke out in Belgium. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 827

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• XREF: The ‘stomp’ motif echoes the reader’s focus on how states learn Islamophobic techniques from each other — here resistance also travels across borders. — connects to: Anti-globalization protests at Evian drew 100-150 thousand demonstrators — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117