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  • Mosque Attack Suspect’s 2015 Photo with Le Pen Sparks Controversy for Far-Right Party
    4 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    The controversy is raging around a photo taken in 2015 showing Claude Sinké, the author of the attack on the Bayonne mosque, Marine Le Pen, President of the Rassemblement national (RN), the former Front national (FN), and other candidates in the cantonal elections.
    Social networks are raging after the release of this shot taken by the photographer, Isabelle Louvier, reports Sudouest. For its part, the Rassemblement national (RN) is trying to get out of this embarrassing situation.
    After (…)

  • Former Cycling Champion Fired from UCI World Center Amid Harassment Allegations
    6 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    Frédéric Magné, multiple world champion, is no longer Director of the UCI World Cycling Center (WCC). He was fired for "loss of trust" and for "reigning through terror".
    "Based on information received, the UCI considered that the bond of trust has been broken and Mr. Frédéric Magné has left his position as Director of the UCI World Cycling Center".
    This is how a spokesman for the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) gave the AFP the reasons for the dismissal of the multiple world (…)

  • Homeless Woman Charged with Attempted Murder After Pushing Veiled Women onto Brussels Metro Tracks
    8 November 2019, by Ginette

    In Belgium, a homeless woman tried to kill two women by pushing them onto the metro tracks. She justifies this act by saying she does not like veiled women.
    The prevailing climate of Islamophobia sometimes leads to excessive tragedies. This is the case at the Brouckère metro station in downtown Brussels, where a woman pushed another woman onto the metro tracks.
    The Belgian press has repeatedly reported the information and talked about a "trivial dispute" between two women aged 51 and 68 (…)

  • French Interior Minister Defends Muslim Community at WWI Memorial Ceremony
    9 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    During a ceremony honoring Muslim soldiers who died for France as part of the celebration of the 101st anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, Christophe Castaner, Minister of the Interior in charge of Religions, defended the Muslim community against the promoters of hatred.
    "To all the promoters of hatred, I have only one message to convey: come here and see the reality of the commitment of Muslim soldiers [...]. Hatred, rejection and amalgams are insults to the Republic, insults to our (…)

  • Brussels: Woman Arrested for Pushing Veiled Senior onto Tram Tracks
    9 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    An arrest warrant has been issued against a 51-year-old woman arrested on November 5. She had pushed a 68-year-old veiled woman onto the tram tracks at the De Brouckère station.
    In a statement, the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office said "an arrest warrant has been issued by an investigating judge against the suspect".
    It was also recalled that the accused "had already been convicted by the courts in 2018 for acts of assault and battery".
    It was 1:30 pm when a brief altercation broke (…)

  • Human Rights Group Condemns Ex-Charlie Hebdo Journalist’s Call for ’Live Ammunition’ Against Protesters
    8 November 2019, by Bladi.net

    Zineb El Rhazoui’s remarks on CNews are not to the liking of the League of Human Rights (LDH), which condemns them rigorously. The former Charlie Hebdo journalist, on this channel, indeed called, on November 5th, for the use of "live ammunition" against young people from working-class neighborhoods, referring to a confrontation with the police in Mantes-la-Jolie.
    The League of Human Rights (LDH), in its press release, considers Zineb El Rhazoui’s remarks, the one who compared Islam to the (…)

  • French Education Official Exits School Over Veiled Women, Sparking Secularism Debate
    9 November 2019, by Ginette

    A most embarrassing scene took place on Thursday morning on the occasion of the National Day of the Fight against Harassment. Workshops had been organized and were to be the subject of an official visit.
    According to Le Parisien, it was at 11 a.m. that the Rector of the Versailles Academy, Charline Avenel, the Academic Director, Dominique Fis, and the Mayor of Clamart, Jean-Didier Berger, presented themselves in this school located in Haut-Clamart.
    But the face-to-face meeting of the (…)

  • French Senator Escapes Sanction After Comparing Veiled Muslim Women to ’Halloween Witches’
    10 November 2019, by Ginette

    Seized by David Assouline, in reaction to the insult of the senator who dared to compare veiled women to Halloween witches, the Senate office will not follow up on the request of the vice-president of the PS group.
    His outburst had provoked the anger of his colleagues in the Senate as well as that of many French people on social networks. It was during a debate on the ban on wearing religious symbols for school chaperones that the senator Jean-Louis Masson had, among other inappropriate (…)

  • French Catholic Leaders Call for Dialogue Amid Headscarf Controversy
    10 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, President of the Conference of Bishops of France, deplored "another episode of tensions around the headscarves worn by Muslim women". He would like there to be more meetings between Muslim and Christian families.
    France has experienced "another episode of tensions around the headscarves worn by Muslim women. It would be worth knowing what the women who choose to wear a headscarf have in mind, rather than attributing intentions to them".
    This is how Eric de (…)

  • Far-Right Vox Party Surges in Ceuta, Winning 35% of Vote in Spanish Election
    12 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    Considered an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim far-right party, Vox garnered 35% of the vote in Ceuta in the legislative elections on Sunday, November 10.
    A first in the history of the party. Indeed, the voters of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave north of Morocco, massively voted for Vox, a political party founded in 2013. In total, the political formation collected nearly 12,000 votes in Ceuta, which represents 35% of the votes.
    Vox thus improved its score compared to the last legislative (…)