Islamophobia

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• Surge in Anti-Muslim Attacks Sparks Concern in Southwest France Ahead of Election
  3 February 2022, by Sylvanus

  A few months before the 2022 presidential election, anti-Muslim acts are multiplying in Southwestern France. The Ministry of the Interior is called upon to provide special surveillance of places of worship, and more particularly of mosques.
  The KO Market food halal grocery store, located in the ZAC de Redon in Bon-Encontre in Lot-et-Garonne, was ravaged by fire in the night of Saturday, January 29 to Sunday, January 30, 2022. According to the investigators, it would be an arson, because (…)

• French Lawmakers Clash Over Religious Symbols in Sports Bill
  3 February 2022, by Ginette

  Meeting on Monday, January 31, the Joint Committee (CMP) was unable to reach an agreement on the draft law aimed at democratizing sport in France. Some deputies opposed an amendment added by Senator of Isère Michel Savin (LR), which provided for extending the law on secularism in schools to sports competitions, by banning the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols.
  Consensus is hard to come by around the draft law "aimed at democratizing sport in France". Yet the National Assembly had (…)

• Eurovision Star Bilal Hassani’s Mother Reveals Son’s Battle Against Racism and Homophobia
  4 February 2022, by Ginette

  The singer of Moroccan origin Bilal Hassani, who represented France at the Eurovision in 2019 and participated in Danse avec les stars, broadcast on TF1, continues to face a violent wave of cyber-harassment due to his sexual orientation. A daily struggle that he faces with the help of his mother Amina Frühauf, author of the book "Being a Mother, Taha, Bilal and Me", published by Éditions Michel Lafon.
  In this book, Amina Frühauf recounts how she helped Bilal and his brother Taha to build (…)

• French Government Backs New Organization to Combat Anti-Muslim Discrimination
  10 February 2022, by Sylvanus

  Gérald Darmanin, the French Minister of the Interior, affirms that the government is in favor of creating a new organization to fight Islamophobia that it "can subsidize".
  "I have heard the proposal to create a national association to fight anti-Muslim acts. This is an association that we can subsidize, that we can help, of course, since it would not be a religious association but a social purpose association," said Gérald Darmanin in an interview with SaphirNews at the end of the first (…)

• Belgian Political Leader Accused of Promoting Islamophobia and Supporting Far-Right Figure
  12 February 2022, by Sylvanus

  During the debates on a text from the Mouvement réformateur (MR) aimed at maintaining an intergenerational aid/platform in the Brussels Parliament on Friday, the Brussels deputy Ahmed Mouhssin (Ecolo) attacked the president of the MR, Georges-Louis Bouchez, accusing him of "questioning Islamophobia", "supporting (Eric) Zemmour", and "standing in solidarity with a racist and an anti-Semite."
  "With his scandalous speech that questions Islamophobia and supports (Eric) Zemmour, he polarizes (…)

• French Senate Bans Hijab in Sports, Athletes Rally for Muslim Women’s Inclusion
  13 February 2022, by Armel

  About fifty athletes, including Eric Cantona and Lilian Thuram, have pleaded the cause of female athletes wearing the veil. They have just published the petition entitled "Let the "hijabeuses" play", to make the French legislators see reason.
  But alas, their call was not heard by the Senate, which on the same day voted an amendment that extends the ban on the hijab to all sports federations. This ban was previously limited to football.
  For the signatories of the petition, this is a (…)

• Spanish Court Orders Islamic Education in Murcia Schools, Enforcing 1992 Law
  15 February 2022, by Prince

  The Muslim community of Murcia can finally benefit from the teaching of Islam in schools. This is what the judge has decided, who was seized of a complaint to this effect, in the face of the refusal of the local government to apply the law on Islamic education in Spain, in force since 1992.
  The Murcia region has a large Muslim community estimated at 100,000, of whom about 22,291 students are enrolled in public schools and do not have access to Islamic education. This injustice has been (…)

• Controversy Erupts as Hijab-Wearing Student Barred from Malaga Classroom
  8 March 2022, by Prince

  A 14-year-old teenager was denied access to the classroom in Malaga for wearing the hijab. Her family denounces the "Islamophobic" act and demands her reintegration as soon as possible.
  The young girl, of Egyptian origin, was not allowed to attend classes because she was wearing the veil. In a video posted on social media, her mother denounces the decision of the officials of the educational center, according to Malaga Hoy.
  To read: Muslim Student Suspended for Wearing Hijab at (…)

• Controversy Erupts Over Classroom Video Mocking Muslim Prayer in French School
  9 March 2022, by Prince

  Two teenagers imitate Muslims praying in a classroom and are filmed by their teacher. The 10-second video showing the scene, posted on Twitter last Friday, is causing controversy.
  "These young people are mocking Islam by imitating Muslims in a classroom, while being filmed by their teacher," denounced the Tajmaât (public square in Kabyle) account, which contacted the Nantes academy. In less than 24 hours, the video was viewed more than 49,000 times on Twitter, according to France Bleu. (…)

• Muslim Students in Spain Transfer Schools After Hijab Ban
  10 March 2022, by Prince

  Muslim girls who were prohibited from wearing the hijab in a school in Malaga, southern Spain, will be transferred to other public schools. This is the solution proposed by the Delegation of Education and accepted by their parents.
  The parents met with the Delegation of Education on Wednesday, which explained to them that the center has only complied with its internal regulations that prohibit the wearing of the veil. The most important thing was "to find a solution for the girls" who (…)