Islamophobia

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• French Official Calls for Violence Against Veiled Woman After Anti-Islamophobia Rally
  22 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  An employee of the Meaux town hall launched, on October 19, a call to murder a veiled woman, following a demonstration against Islamophobia organized in Paris.
  Hatred against veiled women seems to be producing the feared impact in France. Indeed, a rally against Islamophobia was organized at the Place de la République in Paris on October 19, to denounce the deleterious socio-political climate that is gripping France.
  However, a photo of a woman wearing the headscarf and displaying a (…)

• Meaux Employee Faces Sanctions for Violent Anti-Muslim Comment on Social Media
  22 October 2019, by Ginette

  "French, Muslim and veiled, if I bother you, I invite you to leave my country." In response to this post, a municipal employee in Meaux called to "cut off her head". The remarks of this employee and the reports that followed led to the opening of an investigation for "incitement to racial hatred".
  The controversy had escalated so much that it led Jean-François Copé, the mayor of Meaux, to react on Monday afternoon.
  "It is not my habit to comment on images or statements circulated on (…)

• Muslim-Focused Party to Field 50 Candidates in French Municipal Elections
  22 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  In a socio-political climate where the Muslim community is stigmatized in France, the Union of French Muslim Democrats (UDMF) is not giving up. On the contrary, despite the accusations of "communitarianism" that it faces, the party, which boasts of its non-negligible score in the European elections, plans to present around fifty candidates in the municipal elections next March.
  To all those voices rising up to ban "community lists", Nagib Azergui gives a straightforward answer: "the UDMF (…)

• 100 French Officials Warn Against Muslim Stigmatization Amid Veil Debate
  24 October 2019, by Ginette

  At the heart of the debate on the veil that is agitating France, 100 local elected officials from various political backgrounds are alerting against the risk of creating a "society of suspicion", "by too much pointing the finger at a community of believers", the Muslims, and therefore of dividing society. For them, France is getting bogged down in stirring up the specter of division. A rally against Islamophobia was also held on Saturday in Paris.
  While a bill on the "religious (…)

• French Media Watchdog Escalates Case Against Far-Right Pundit Zemmour and LCI Channel
  25 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  While he is being prosecuted for "public insults" and "public incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence", following the full and live broadcast on September 28 of his speech on LCI, Eric Zemmour is seeing his situation become more complicated. Indeed, it is the turn of the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) to transmit to the Public Prosecutor new "elements in its possession".
  According to Le Monde, these new elements provided by the Superior Audiovisual Council are intended to (…)

• French Actress Leïla Bekhti Calls for Unity Amid Veil Controversy
  25 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  Actress Leïla Bekhti has decided to react to the controversy surrounding the wearing of the veil in France. In an open letter posted on her Instagram account, she calls for the spread of living together.
  "I am appalled by the hatred and rejection of the other that is spreading in society. I no longer want women to be rejected because they wear a veil or not, that men be looked at with suspicion because of their name, their faith, their skin color."
  This is how actress Leïla Bekhti (…)

• Nazi Symbols Vandalize Mosque Construction Site in Charleville-Mézières, France
  27 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  The daily L’Ardennais, which reports the information, mentions "Nazi symbols" that were "tagged in black paint on the wall and on the construction site barriers", adding that the offenders acted during the night.
  The authorities of Charleville-Mézières strongly condemned this ignoble act. Prefect Pascal Joly, in particular, "condemned with the utmost firmness these unacceptable actions". He also assured "his full support to the Mosque Association and the Cultural Center of the Ardennes in (…)

• French Prefecture Blocks Islamophobia Workshop at Val-d’Oise Mosque, Citing Venue Concerns
  28 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  The workshop on Islamophobia, which was to be organized on Saturday by the Franco-Muslim Cultural Association of Val-d’Oise (ACFMV), was canceled by the Val-d’Oise Prefecture in France. This decision was made because it considers that the mosque was not the appropriate place to hold this event.
  This refusal by the Prefecture to validate the holding of this conference on the theme, "How to react to Islamophobia?", is rather an invitation to find another venue for this much-anticipated (…)

• Muslim Graduate Faces Job Discrimination Over Hijab in France
  28 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  Of Moroccan origin, Malika, a young Muslim woman has decided to support the cause of people who are victims of Islamophobia. Having already suffered the contempt of others at university for wearing the veil, this young sociology graduate now has to fight to find a job.
  Young activist for freedom of expression, Malika confided in Libération, evoking her journey as a Muslim woman and the difficult issue of wearing the veil which continues to fuel controversy. The young woman is (…)

• Thousands March in Paris to Protest Rising Islamophobia in France
  29 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  The weekend of October 26 and 27 saw demonstrations organized in several cities in France, to denounce the rise of "hatred against Muslims". In Paris, it was the Place de la Nation that was stormed by the demonstrators.
  The demonstrators responded in large numbers to the call of the organizers, to protest against the stigmatization of Muslims, fueled in political and media spheres, reports Saphirnews.
  Among the excesses denounced by the organizers of this protest rally, we could note (…)