
Veil of Controversy: Strasbourg's Inclusive Aging Campaign Ignites Debate
In Strasbourg, the communication campaign launched by the Green mayor’s office is causing intense controversy due to a poster featuring a sexagenarian wearing an Islamic veil.

In Strasbourg, the communication campaign launched by the Green mayor’s office is causing intense controversy due to a poster featuring a sexagenarian wearing an Islamic veil.

The sixteen members of the far-right group AFO, tried for planning violent actions against Muslims in France, will be informed of their fate this Tuesday, at the end of their trial before the Paris criminal court.

During the Spanish dating show "First Dates" aired on the Cuatro channel, Hamza, a 21-year-old young man of Moroccan origin, asked his guest Gisela, a 19-year-old Spanish woman, to convert to Islam. The sequence sparked a lively controversy on social media.

The Grand Mosque of Paris denounces "essentialist and stigmatizing" remarks that present Muslims in France as a "demographic threat" made on a television channel.

The influencer Savage Petrov declared, in a video published Tuesday on TikTok, that wearing the FC Barcelona jersey is haram (sin) due to the presence of a cross in the crest of the Catalan club.

Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, reacts to the shocking remarks of economist Jean-Marc Sylvestre on Arabic described as the "Muslim... Islamist language".

Anti-Muslim hatred is reaching alarming proportions in France. This is at least what a recent IFOP study commissioned by the Grand Mosque of Paris reveals.

During a sit-in in front of the Moroccan embassy in Berlin (Germany), activists from the "FEMEN" and "Ex-Muslims" movements denounced the arrest and detention of Ibtissame Lachgar, a Moroccan LGBTQ+ rights activist and founder of the alternative movement for individual freedoms (MALI), whose publication of a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt displaying a controversial phrase about religions caused an uproar among the population.

During the penalty shootout in the Saudi Super Cup final between Al-Nassr and Al-Ahli, Cristiano Ronaldo was seen in a prayerful posture, with his hands clasped and his head bowed, as Muslims do.

In Morocco, the Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs is on a crusade against online religious misinformation orchestrated by "internet preachers" and influencers who spread messages contrary to authentic Islam and the Maliki rite.

Ibtissame Lachgar, a Moroccan activist for LGBTQ+ rights, also the founder of the alternative movement for individual freedoms (MALI), whose publication of a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt displaying a controversial phrase about Islam has caused an uproar among the population, was placed in detention on Tuesday for "offense against the Islamic religion".

The National Brigade of the Judicial Police arrested, on Sunday afternoon, Ibtissame Lachgar, a Moroccan activist for LGBTQ+ rights, and also the founder of the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI), whose publication of a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt displaying a controversial phrase about religions caused an uproar among the population.