Islamophobia

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• Muslim Couple Faces Racist Backlash Over New Montpellier Restaurant Opening
  11 April, by Sylvanus

  Barely had he announced the opening of his restaurant in the Plan Cabanes neighborhood of Montpellier when a Muslim couple became the target of racist and Islamophobic insults.
  The announcement of the opening of the restaurant "L’Océan fish", a seafood restaurant, sparked racist and Islamophobic comments on social media due to the image posted on Monday, April 7 on the Facebook page of the local media La Gazette de Montpellier. Taken inside the seafood restaurant, this image shows the (…)

• 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 (…)

• Muslim Women in France Face Growing Pressure Over Hijab Amid Renewed Debates
  21 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  Aged 19 to 55, Sarah, Zouna, Sabrina, Hind, Safia and Inès*, from various backgrounds in France, recount slices of life on wearing the veil, at a time when the debates around this issue are returning and intensifying.
  It is Le Parisien who went to meet these women who wear the Islamic veil.
  "As a woman, we already have to be vigilant. With the veil, it’s doubled. [...]. But with each controversy, the veil is heavier to bear," says Sarah, 19, a student in a Psychology Bachelor’s degree (…)

• 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 (…)

• Moroccan Ambassador to Vatican: Islamophobia Used as Political Tool
  9 January 2020, by Ginette

  It is in an interview given to the daily Al Massae that the ambassador addressed the issues related to Islamophobia, which, for her, remains an "alibi". On the question of what her role as a diplomat in a state like the Vatican, which in terms of trade, political and other relations, has nothing to exchange with Morocco, Rajae Mekkaoui believes that "the principles of tolerance and coexistence between civilizations, cultures and religions" are sufficient reasons to collaborate.
  Rajae (…)

• Nantes Islamist Leader Released After Serving Terrorism Sentence
  18 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  Mohamed Achamlane, self-proclaimed emir of Moroccan origin, born in Nantes in November 1977, who was serving a 9-year prison sentence, has just regained his freedom. Arrested for criminal conspiracy in connection with a terrorist enterprise, this Nantes Islamist "targeted" the Hyper Cacher.
  The arrest of Mohamed Achamlane, who lived in a town near Nantes, dates back to July 2015. Then 37 years old, he had been sentenced to 9 years in prison for "criminal conspiracy in connection with a (…)

• Journalist Warns Senate: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrating French Islamic Organizations
  26 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  The journalist, Zineb El Rhazoui, heard by the Senate inquiry commission on Islamic radicalization, felt that the terrorist organization "the Muslim Brotherhood" is indeed at the gates of power.
  The human rights activist did not stroke the Muslim Association for an Islam of France (AMIF) in the right direction. She strongly criticized it, arguing that it is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the journalist, the AMIF, as the representative body of Islam in France, will (…)

• Cosmetics Executive Suspended for Islamophobic Tweets Against TV Personality
  1 March 2019, by Said

  The Marketing Director of the Nocibé cosmetics chain was suspended yesterday following his Islamophobic tweets posted in response to Yassine Belattar’s decision to resign from the LCI news channel for his open support for Éric Zemmour.
  Alain Bizeul, that’s his name, had strongly reacted on February 19 on his personal Twitter account by commenting on the decision of the Franco-Moroccan. "Good riddance you Islamist scum. You make my day," he had written on Twitter in reaction to this (…)

• Far-Right French Politician Faces Legal Action Over Controversial Christchurch Tweet
  19 March 2019, by Said

  Her message will not go unpunished. The French far-right elected official Catherine Blein will be prosecuted in court following her message on Twitter: "Shooting in New Zealand, an eye for an eye..."
  Deleted since, this message sparked a strong controversy on social networks, prompting the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM, via the National Observatory against Islamophobia) to mandate the lawyer at the Nîmes bar Khadija Aoudia to file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor against (…)

• Islamophobic Graffiti Targets Religious Sites in Rennes, France
  16 April 2019, by Said

  Among the inscriptions discovered: "88 Nic the Mus", a smiley with the inscription "Go Home" and a third tag with the symbols of the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) under which one can read: "No thank you".
  According to AFP, these tags were discovered by Muslim worshippers and officials on Monday morning and work was already underway yesterday afternoon (after the police report) to erase them.
  "The tags simultaneously targeted three places of worship in a (…)