Islamophobia

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• Belgian Students Spark Outrage with Controversial Islamic-Themed Costumes
  1 March 2019, by Said

  A costume that does not pass the eyes of many people on social media. Students from a Catholic school in Melle, East Flanders, are at the center of a controversy that is hard to die down.
  According to the Belgian media, including the RTBF channel, the senior classes chose the theme of Islam for their costume this year. Unfortunately, the choice of costumes is hard to accept, or at least as the channel writes "the behavior of the students".
  Thus, in a video posted on social media, we see (…)

• Muslim Student Alleges Discrimination at Etam Store Over Hijab During Job Search
  13 March 2019, by Said

  A young Muslim student wearing a veil and looking for a job went this week to an Etam store in Montpellier to drop off her CV and cover letter. Unfortunately, she was very poorly received by the store manager who reproached her for her veil.
  This is what she claims in a video posted on Twitter where she recounts her misadventure. "I went into a store to drop off my CV and cover letter. I went in, smiling etc... and I spoke with the manager. She was smiling at first and then I said I was (…)

• Former French Official Fined for Anti-Muslim Comments About Transit Workers
  19 March 2022, by Ginette

  The former deputy mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) had accused in December 2019 the management of the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) of having "recruited thousands of Arab-Muslim agents who despise Christmas and consider users as cattle".
  These remarks were made as a sign of protest against the railway workers’ strike at the time. More than two years after her remarks, which were considered scandalous, Agnès Cerighelli’s conviction for racial discrimination has (…)

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  16 April 2022, by Sylvanus
• Etam Pledges Non-Discrimination in Hiring Amid Islamophobia Claims
  15 March 2019, by Amine

  Etam promises to raise awareness among its teams on the need not to have a discriminatory position when it comes to hiring personnel. This comes following accusations of Islamophobia made by a young veiled woman against the brand.
  The brand has just promised to raise awareness among its teams to avoid any discriminatory approach in its recruitment process. However, it should be noted that hiring is not keeping. The brand can still ask hypothetical veiled employees to remove the veil. (…)

• New Zealand’s Moroccan Community Grapples with Aftermath of Mosque Attacks
  19 March 2019, by Amine

  Taoufiq El Idrissi, a Moroccan businessman who has been living in New Zealand for 21 years, says: "All New Zealanders, including members of the Moroccan community, are in a state of shock. No one is close to forgetting this terrible day." According to him, this attack was a total surprise: "We left our doors open in a country at the other end of the world where we thought we were far from all the evils of the world. We were far from believing that the devil could be among us." The life of (…)

• Far-Right Groups in Europe Urge Supporters to Arm, Train for ’Social Struggle’
  24 March 2019, by Amine

  According to the Anadolu news agency, a report from the Belgian intelligence services would reveal a certain change in the activities of the far-right in Western Europe. Extremists would have asked their supporters to arm themselves and learn to fight.
  The same source specifies that radical changes have been made in the structures of certain far-right organizations, changes favoring violence, prompted by the admiration these organizations have for the Nazis. The source gives the example (…)

• Veiled Muslim Women Targeted in Alleged Hate Crime Outside Belgian School
  25 March 2019, by Said

  Muslim women were the target of a new Islamophobic attack in Belgium, this time in Uccle where two women were insulted "because of their veil".
  The facts are reported by the local press, including the newspaper La Dernière heure, which indicates that the two women were in front of a school to pick up their children. They were first insulted by a driver who made racist remarks saying for example that he did not like veiled women.
  The latter then hit one of them at the pedestrian crossing (…)

• Belgian Police Seek Suspect in Islamophobic Attack on Veiled Woman in Anderlecht
  12 April 2019, by Kamal

  The investigation into the assault on a veiled woman (at the beginning of the month in Anderlecht) is progressing with the release by the police this week of photos of the main suspect in this assault that had outraged, in Belgium and elsewhere.
  In its note to the media, the police indicate that "the author is between 20 and 30 years old. He is about 1.80m tall, of robust build, has black hair, a frontal baldness and a thin beard. At the time of the events, he was wearing a gray hooded (…)

• Muslim Women Denied Flea Market Registration Due to Hijabs in Northern France
  29 April 2019, by Bladi.net

  Two Muslim women were unable to register because of their veil last Saturday in Croix, in northern France. A discrimination they do not intend to let pass.
  Another case of discrimination whose video continues to upset the web. Two Muslim women who had gone to the town hall of Wasquehal (59), to register for the May 1st flea market in Croix, a commune southeast of Roubaix, had to face the refusal of the flea market manager.
  "I’m not going to take you, ladies, you don’t have to queue, (…)