Islamophobia

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• Valencia Reverses Decision on Muslim School Land Sale Amid Controversy
  4 October 2022, by Armel

  The Valencia city council went back, on Monday, on its decision regarding the sale of land for the construction of a Muslim school. The operation was finally canceled for urban planning reasons. The association Valeurs et Réussite, the initiator of the project, denounces discrimination and plans to appeal.
  This decision comes three months after the agreement reached between the association and the same elected officials. The council had decided to sell the association a municipal plot of (…)

• Muslim High School in Lille Faces New Funding Battle with Regional Government
  6 October 2022, by Armel

  A new legal battle is looming between the private Muslim high school Averroès in Lille and the Hauts-de-France Region. The regional president has again blocked the payment of the school’s subsidy, despite the recent dismissal by the Council of State. A new appeal has been filed.
  A situation that repeats itself. Last year, the Averroès high school was faced with the same decision followed by the same appeals. This new refusal, "it’s a bit of a repetition," laments Paul Jablonski, one of (…)

• Woman Fatally Stabbed in Nantes While Walking to Work, Suspect at Large
  17 October 2022, by Armel

  A 47-year-old woman "probably veiled" was attacked on Sunday morning in Nantes. The victim succumbed to her injuries, the suspect is on the run, while an investigation has been opened.
  According to the Nantes prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, the attack took place in the lower part of the Bellevue district, at the moment when the victim, a cleaning woman in a health facility, was going to work. "She had just left her home in the immediate vicinity of the place of the attack and was going to her (…)

• Mosque in Bordeaux Vandalized with Anti-Muslim Graffiti Following Lola Murder Case
  22 October 2022, by Armel

  A week after the murder of Lola, a 12-year-old schoolgirl killed in Paris, the mosque in Pessac, Bordeaux was the target of Islamophobic inscriptions. The president of the place of worship will file a complaint against unknown persons.
  Tags calling for "justice for Lola" were discovered on the walls of the mosque, attacking the state described as "lax".
  In the country, Lola’s death and the profile of the main suspect, of Algerian nationality and under an obligation to leave French (…)

• Angers Mosque Vandalized Again in Suspected Islamophobic Attack
  2 November 2022, by Armel

  The Abu Bakr Essedik mosque in Angers, currently under construction, was the target of an attack last weekend. A second degradation after that of September 2021. The officials denounce an "Islamophobic" persecution.
  The Association of Muslims of Angers (AMA), manager of the mosque, expressed its desolation in the face of the "hateful and Islamophobic persecution" of which it claims to be a victim. It said it was "deeply shocked" by an act targeting "a place of prayer and meditation." (…)

• Singer Patrick Bruel Slams Islamophobia in French Politics, Warns of Radicalization
  23 November 2022, by Prince

  On the occasion of the release of his 11th album, Patrick Bruel expressed his indignation at the Islamophobic discourse heard during the campaign of the last presidential election in France.
  The 63-year-old artist refuses the amalgamation according to which a Muslim is an Islamist, considering that it is "too easy to build one’s ground on that". It was "sometimes insulting for Muslims who live in France and practice their religion normally. By putting everyone in the same bag, we are (…)

• Stones Hurled at Turkish Mosque in Romans-sur-Isère, Damaging Property
  8 December 2022, by Armel

  The mosque in Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme department, was the target of an attack with stone throwing. Significant material damage was recorded and a complaint was filed.
  Several individuals targeted the religious building belonging to the Turkish community by throwing stones, reports Le Dauphiné Libéré, specifying that the worshippers were gathered inside the place of worship when the events occurred.
  According to the Amicale Culturelle des Turcs association, no injuries are to be (…)

• FIFA Rejects Muslim Teams’ Proposal for Anti-Islamophobia Armbands at World Cup
  10 December 2022, by Sylvanus

  The proposal of several teams composed of predominantly Muslim players to wear an armband against Islamophobia during the World Cup in Qatar is said to have met with the refusal of FIFA. The latter had a few weeks earlier banned the wearing of the "One Love" armband in support of LGBT+ rights, and proposed in its place a series of messages such as "No to discrimination".
  "Qatar and some of the other predominantly Muslim teams were in advanced discussions to see if players could wear (…)

• Mosque Files Complaint Against Author Houellebecq for Alleged Anti-Muslim Remarks
  29 December 2022, by Armel

  The Grand Mosque of Paris has decided to file a complaint against the writer Michel Houellebecq for incitement to hatred against Muslims. At the origin of this legal action, a conversation in which he made dangerous remarks towards Muslims.
  In a discussion between the writer and Michel Onfray published in a recent issue of the Front Populaire review, the author of "Submission and Serotonin" notably declared: "People are arming themselves. They are getting guns, taking courses at shooting (…)

• CNews Faces Potential Sanctions Over Controversial Anti-Muslim Comments
  5 January 2023, by Armel

  Following the remarks deemed anti-Muslim made by journalist Jean-Claude Dassier on CNews last week, the television channel could soon be sanctioned. A complaint has been filed and the justice system has been seized.
  The commentator and former OM executive said on the CNews set: "Muslims, they don’t care about the Republic, they don’t even know what the word means" and where another contributor, Laurent Ozon, praised the merits of "remigration."
  Remarks that were not contradicted during (…)