Islamophobia

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• Béziers Mosque Files Complaint After Online Calls for Arson Following Teacher’s Murder
  22 October 2020, by Ginette

  The officials of the Grand Mosque of Béziers filed a complaint against X following the call issued by Internet users to burn the mosque the day after the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
  According to information provided by the police, Internet users called for the burning of the Grand Mosque of Béziers. "Do you want to pay tribute to this teacher? Go burn the mosque in Béziers. Get the message across that we’ve had enough," could be read on Facebook. But (…)

• Muslim Couple Faces Racist Backlash Over New Montpellier Restaurant Opening
  11 April, by Sylvanus

  Barely had he announced the opening of his restaurant in the Plan Cabanes neighborhood of Montpellier when a Muslim couple became the target of racist and Islamophobic insults.
  The announcement of the opening of the restaurant "L’Océan fish", a seafood restaurant, sparked racist and Islamophobic comments on social media due to the image posted on Monday, April 7 on the Facebook page of the local media La Gazette de Montpellier. Taken inside the seafood restaurant, this image shows the (…)

• France Dissolves Controversial Muslim Rights Group Amid Islamism Concerns
  4 December 2020, by Ginette

  The French government announced, on Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers, the dissolution of the Collective against Islamophobia (CCIF). According to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, this organization has been "carrying out Islamist propaganda for several years".
  Before the decision of the Council of Ministers, the CCIF had already announced a few days earlier its "voluntary dissolution", adding that its assets had been "transferred to partner associations that will be (…)

• Swastikas Found on Mosque Construction Site in Amboise, France
  8 January 2019, by Said

  Swastikas were discovered on Monday morning on the wall of the future mosque in Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), currently under construction.
  According to France Bleu, five Nazi crosses were painted on the perimeter wall and barriers of the mosque construction site in Amboise. The alert had been given by a neighbor who claims that the crosses were not yet written at 8:30 a.m. when he left for work.
  The Turkish cultural association will file a complaint and the sub-prefect went to the site to (…)

• Report: Anti-Muslim Incidents in France Drop 17% in 2018
  14 February 2019, by Said

  Anti-Muslim acts are declining in France, according to the latest report published by the Observatory of Islamophobia, attached to the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM).
  Thus, during the year 2018, 100 anti-Muslim acts occurred in France, compared to 121 the previous year. In detail, according to the president of the observatory Abdallah Zekri, there were 43 acts and 57 threats.
  However, this decline must be put into perspective since many people do not file complaints against (…)

• Man Sentenced to 2 Years for Racist Attack on Muslim Woman on Train
  18 February 2019, by Amine

  Sean Devlin was found guilty of verbally and physically assaulting Malika Touirtou, a 63-year-old Moroccan-American woman, on a train, before shouting that she had a bomb in her bag. He allegedly beat her up. A judge has just sentenced him, among other things, to 2 years in prison.
  It all started when Sean Devlin, 36, heard Malika Touirtou speaking Arabic on the phone to her brother. It was during Ramadan and she was returning from the tarawih prayer. He would then have accosted her and (…)

• Far-Right Pundit Zemmour Links Immigration to Anti-Semitism in France
  21 February 2019, by Said

  The polemicist Eric Zemmour’s anti-Muslim crusade, who has already been convicted in the past for incitement to racial hatred, continues, and this time he directly targets Moroccans.
  Speaking on the LCI channel, Zemmour claimed that the rise of anti-Semitism in France is the fruit of Islamic culture. "We were told that Islam was a religion of peace and love, whereas we know well that this anti-Semitism is the product of an Islamic culture that goes back a long way. I would prefer the (…)

• Muslim Family in Belgium Finds Pig’s Head Outside Home in Suspected Hate Crime
  17 October 2019, by Ginette

  "Knowing that we are Muslims, this is a racist act, in my opinion," regrets a member of the Lahcen family, who reported the incident on Facebook. The cooked pig’s head had been placed as if to bother the family.
  According to Canal zoom, which reports the information, a neighbor is said to have come to apologize after the discovery. While she acknowledges having eaten pork during a private party, she claims to ignore the identity of the person who committed the reprehensible act.
  A (…)

• I apologize, but I don’t have enough information to write an accurate and compelling headline based on the limited content provided. The summary and first paragraph are empty, leaving me without sufficient context about the story to create a proper journalistic headline. To write an effective headline, I would need more details about the specific situation involving the Muslim policewoman in France and the nature of the "double jeopardy" she faces. Without this context, any headline I generate would be speculative and potentially misleading.
  17 November 2019, by Bladi.net
• French Mayor Bans 8-Year-Old from School Canteen Over Meatless Diet
  8 December 2019, by Bladi.net

  The young Kamil, aged 8, was excluded from the canteen by the mayor of Pont-de-Chéruy, France, simply because he does not eat meat.
  Alain Tuduri, the mayor of the municipality, has banned him from the canteen from the start of January.
  The mayor has in the past been confronted with several cases. He was sentenced in 2015 to three months’ suspended imprisonment and a fine of €7,000 for favoritism and in 2009 to 18 months’ suspended imprisonment for discrimination.
  The politician had (…)