Islamophobia

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• Anti-Muslim Acts in France Surge 53% in 2020, Report Finds
  29 January 2021, by Ginette

  The annual report on Islamophobic acts in France has just been published by the National Observatory for the Fight against Islamophobia. The findings are alarming and show a 53% increase in these acts compared to 2019, with 235 anti-Muslim acts recorded compared to 154 the previous year.
  The year 2020 has been sensitive in terms of Islamophobic acts. According to the report published by the National Observatory for the Fight against Islamophobia, from January 1 to December 31, 2020, 235 (…)

• Dissolved French Muslim Group Resurfaces as European Entity, Challenges Government
  10 February 2021, by Jérôme

  After deactivating its social media, the CCIF is back, but this time under the name "CCIF Europe". "The CCIF, in the process of being liquidated, has transferred its assets as well as a large part of its intellectual property and means of communication to other associations, including the CCIE (Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe), a non-profit association that was established in Belgium on November 1, 2020," reports Saphirnews.
  In a press release dated February 8, the CCIF announced (…)

• Moroccan Author Slimani Urges Distinction Between Islamism and Terrorism in French Media
  17 February 2021, by Jérôme

  Invited to the Clique program on the French channel Canal +, the Moroccan writer and journalist Leïla Slimani called for a distinction to be made between Islamism and terrorism.
  Alongside actor Kad Merad on the television show on February 14, Leïla Slimani lambasted the use that the French media and politicians make of the term "Islamism". Accusing the use as out of the ordinary and inadequate, the Moroccan woman recalled that "an Islamist is not a terrorist". Thus, confusing the two is (…)

• New French Anti-Islamophobia Group Launches with Legal Support
  19 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  The ACI was founded on February 16. Its mission is to support victims and fully cover their legal fees. The association has the support of three lawyers, Nabil Boudi, Rafik Chekkat and Samim Bolaky, who are joining forces to fight Islamophobia and discrimination. "Through our team of lawyers specializing in discrimination and human rights issues, we are mobilizing, alongside you, to preserve our common values of freedom, equality and fraternity," they have committed.
  The creation of this (…)

• Far-Right Party Falsely Blames Moroccan for Spanish Church Murder
  1 March 2021, by Prince

  The alleged perpetrator of the murder of the sacristan of the church of Alcalá La Real is not a Moroccan, as the far-right party Vox had claimed on social media. It is rather a "disturbed" Romanian.
  The population of Alcalá la Real is shocked by the death of Paco Zúñiga, the sacristan of the Santa María la Mayor church, who died on Friday after being stabbed several times by a homeless person who, according to initial reports, would be of Moroccan origin.
  After the tragedy, the Vox (…)

• Protesters Rally in Paris Against Controversial ’Anti-Separatism’ Law
  15 March 2021, by Jérôme

  At the call of several organizations and civil society, a rally was organized this Sunday on the Place de la République in Paris, to "alert national and international public opinion against the "separatism" law and the Islamophobic practices it will reinforce.
  Although it is now called the draft law "strengthening respect for the principles of the Republic", nothing has changed as to the spirit of the law text which advocates "Work, education, associative life, organization and practice (…)

• Dissolved French Muslim Rights Group Relaunches in Belgium as CCIE
  17 March 2021, by Sylvanus

  The CCIE is a non-governmental, apolitical and non-religious organization, independent and financed solely by its supporters (members and donors) who work for equality and justice, the organization states on its website. Its main activity can be summarized in three points: legal and psychological support for victims of Islamophobia, awareness-raising (campaigns, events, training) against Islamophobia and monitoring and analysis of the phenomenon of Islamophobia at the European level. (…)

• France Bans Veiled Mothers from School Trips in New ’Separatism’ Law Amendment
  1 April 2021, by Ginette

  Veiled mothers will no longer be able to accompany their children on school outings in France. On Tuesday, senators imposed this measure, thus making unexpected amendments to the law on "separatism".
  Henceforth, the ban on students in public schools, colleges and high schools from wearing conspicuous religious symbols also applies to "persons who participate in school outings, activities related to education inside or outside the establishments, organized by these public local schools and (…)

• Senate Votes on Controversial Amendment to Limit Foreign Flags at French Weddings
  2 April 2021, by Jérôme

  "A scandalous amendment, bordering on state racism," contests Thomas Dossus, a Green senator, very irritated by this amendment tabled by the LR senator Henri Leroy and voted in the evening during the examination of the bill strengthening the principles of the Republic, reports Public Sénat, noting that this amendment authorizes the mayor to "regulate the fact of displaying flags other than those of the French Republic or the European Union during the celebration of marriages or the (…)

• Court Orders Region to Pay Muslim High School Averroès Withheld Funding
  3 April 2021, by Jérôme

  It is La Voix du nord which reports the order which indicates that in addition to the 1,000 euros for legal costs to be paid by the Hauts-de-France Region, "the execution of the decision of March 2, 2020 refusing the Averroès association the payment of the external grant due for the 2019/2020 school year and the decision of November 24, 2020 refusing to withdraw the decision of March 2, 2020 is suspended, until a decision is made on their legality."
  The court consequently orders Xavier (…)