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  • Journalist Faces Death Threats After Controversial Islam Comments on French TV
    10 July 2019, by Kamal

    In December 2018, Zineb El Rhazoui had made a statement about Islam on the CNews set. "You know what we put, what content we put today in radicalization associations? We’re going to tell radicalized people that Islam is a religion of peace and love and that you shouldn’t criticize, you shouldn’t speak ill of the prophet," she had said.
    Her statements had had the effect of a bomb on social networks, provoking virulent reactions from Internet users. Several of them had threatened her with (…)

  • Journalist Sparks Controversy with Comments on Immigrant Integration in France
    6 September 2019, by Bladi.net

    The issue of integration in France was at the heart of a program on LCI on Wednesday, September 4. Invited to speak on the matter, the journalist Zineb El Rhazoui stated: "Sometimes, there is not really a willingness to integrate on the part of those who come."
    Invited on LCI to discuss the integration of immigrants in France, the journalist declared: "Foreigners very easily obtain full citizenship, they have the same rights as those who have had French citizenship for centuries."
    And (…)

  • Moroccan Feminist Activist Reflects on Decade-Long Fight for Individual Freedoms
    27 September 2019, by Sylvanus

    The feminist and universalist activism of Ibtissame Lachgar (Betty) is as strong as ever. The picnic she had organized ten years earlier during Ramadan with Zineb El Rhazoui was the trigger for an endless struggle for individual freedoms.
    Betty Lachgar and Zineb El Rhazoui, both Moroccan activists of the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI), made headlines 10 years ago. They had organized a picnic in the Mohammadia forest during Ramadan.
    "The initiative caused a scandal (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Rapper Booba Calls for Retaliation Against Journalist Over Controversial Police Comments
    8 November 2019, by Sylvanus

    The recent statements by columnist Zineb El Rhazoui on the CNews channel continue to cause waves. This time, it is the rapper Booba who attacked the former Charlie Hebdo journalist on social media.
    In a serious tone, journalist Zineb El Rhazoui declared during the debate on the violence recently recorded in Yvelines, in Chanteloup-les-Vignes: "The police must use live ammunition in such cases."
    Since then, the controversy has continued to swell around her remarks. On his Instagram (…)

  • Former Charlie Hebdo Journalist Sues Rapper Booba Over Social Media Clash
    9 November 2019, by Bladi.net

    Zineb El Rhazoui asked her lawyer to file a complaint against rapper Booba. The latter had reacted to the controversial remarks of the former Charlie Hebdo journalist who was speaking about the violence that occurred in certain French neighborhoods.
    Zineb El Rhazoui’s remarks had sparked a lively controversy last Tuesday about the violence that occurred in Mantes-la-Jolie and Chanteloup-les-Vignes. The former Charlie Hebdo journalist had thought that the police should shoot live (…)

  • French Senator Launches Fundraiser for Controversial Anti-Islamist Journalist
    17 November 2019, by Bladi.net

    Bruno Retailleau has no intention of letting go of Zineb El Rhazoui, the former "Charlie Hebdo" journalist and figure in the fight against political Islam, whose recent statements have sparked a lively controversy on social networks. The boss of the Les Républicains senators has chosen Twitter to launch a support kitty for the Franco-Moroccan journalist on Friday, November 15.
    The "fight against Islamic totalitarianism" has "an enormous cost", according to Bruno Retailleau who, on Friday (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • French Comedian and Journalist Clash on Twitter Over Islamic Extremism
    4 January 2020, by Ginette

    Zineb El Rhazoui has not finished collecting enemies. As she was "presenting" her wishes on Twitter, the journalist received a jab from one of her main opponents, Yassine Belattar, who wished for her to disappear in 2020.
    "May the year 2020 be that of the victory over Islamic fascism, and may France be the country where it will be defeated," the journalist tweeted. The response was immediate and comes from Yassine Belattar who did not like the content of the message. "Inch Allah you’re (…)

  • Rapper Booba Awaits Verdict in Insult Case Against Ex-Charlie Hebdo Journalist
    8 March 2023, by Sylvanus

    The 14th chamber of the Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) correctional court will soon deliver its verdict in the Booba-Zineb El Rhazoui case. The rapper is being prosecuted for public insult against the former Charlie Hebdo journalist.
    Booba and Zineb El Rhazoui were absent from Tuesday’s hearing. They were represented by their respective lawyers: Le Bras and Thibault de Montbrial. The facts attributed to the rapper date back to 2019. He had called to make the former Charlie Hebdo journalist’s (…)