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Defiant Muslims block traffic, pray in street of Paris shouting Allahu Akbar
If you haven’t heard of Clichy yet, you likely soon will. The town of 60,000 inhabitants, minutes north of Central Paris, is the latest flashpoint between the secular French Republic and its burgeoning Islamic population, members of which were involved in a tense stand-off with police Wednesday morning over the closure of a temporary mosque.
The mood was extremely taut during the police operation...