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French Muslim women of Algerian origin attend a commemoration lunch in the Izards district of Toulouse March 25, 2012. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
A man walks past a Paris butcher shop in Paris prominently advertising that it sells halal meat. President Nicolas Sarkozy has lamented the decline of the traditional French butcher and now wants all meat clearly marked, while Prime Minister Francois Fillon has suggested that the ritual slaughter of animals by Muslims and Jews is out of sync with modern times. Michel Euler/AP
Muslims attend the installation of the dome of Strasbourg's Grand Mosque during a ceremony to mark the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, in November 2009. Vincent Kessler/Reuters/File
French President Nicolas Sarkozy (c. left), who is running for reelection, attends a ceremony at the Grand Mosque in Paris to pay tribute to Muslim war veterans who fought for France on March 14. Philippe Wojazer/AP
Kenza Drider, a French Muslim of North African descent who wears a niqab, arrives at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris in April 2011. Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters
A young Muslim girl marches among about 3,000 Sikhs from across Europe protesting on a Paris boulevard to defend their traditional headgear against a looming French ban on religious symbols in state schools in 2004. Charles Platiau/Reuters/File
Veiled women take part in a demonstration of journalists and members of the Muslim community on the Trocadero Esplanade in Paris in 2004 to protest against the detention of French journalists held hostage in Iraq and ask for their release. Michel Euler/AP/File
A boy takes part in a prayer at Strasbourg's new Grand Mosque in August 2011. The mosque held its first prayers to mark the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Vincent Kessler/Reuters/File
Models present wedding dresses at the Annual Muslims meeting in Le Bourget, France, in 2005. Jacky Naegelen/Reuters/File
Muslims overflow into the courtyard for Friday prayers at a former fire brigade in Paris in September 2011 after a French ban on street prayers came into force, forcing thousands of Muslims worshippers into makeshift prayer sites around the country. Charles Platiau/Reuters/File
Two women – one wearing the niqab, a veil worn by conservative Muslims that exposes only a woman's eyes – walk in the Belsunce district of downtown Marseille, France. Claude Paris/AP/File
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd l.) and French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (l.) attend a meeting with representatives of French Jewish and Muslim communities at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 20, the day after a gunman on a motorbike shot dead four people in Toulouse, France. Benoit Tessier/Reuters
President Sarkozy shakes hand with well-wishers following a ceremony at the Grand Mosque in Paris paying tribute to Muslim war veterans who fought for France on March 14. Philippe Wojazer/AP
French riot police officers arrest youths in the Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil in 2005. Youths clashed with police in the troubled Parisian suburbs for many nights, setting fire to a car dealership and hurling stones at police. Christophe Ena/AP/File
Residents participate in a silent march in Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb east of Paris, in protest of the wave of mass disorder that was sweeping through the country in 2005. Jacques Brinon/AP/File
View of an electronic voting results board after the vote to ban full-face veils worn by some Muslim women in public at the National Assembly in Paris in July 2010. There are 577 deputies at the National Assembly, of whom 335 voted for the ban and one vote against the ban. Benoit Tessier/Reuters/File
Kamel Kabtane, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, poses in the mosque in Lyon, central France. They are France's millions-strong minority with a voice that usually falls silent at election time. But this year, there is a special new effort to mobilize French Muslims to speak up at the ballot box in Sunday's presidential race. Laurent Cipriani/AP
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Aside from isolated protests in Afghanistan and Iran, the response to publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has been mild. But tomorrow could bring a larger reaction.
A day after a French magazine posted cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, public reaction in the Muslim world has so far been relatively muted, with isolated protests taking place in Iran and Afghanistan. But French agencies remain on high alert in anticipation of larger protests tomorrow.
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