Upcoming legislation crafted to “protect” the Republic and French values promises to be deeply divisive, with French Muslims fearing it will unfairly single them out. Some also see political calculus behind the effort. Macron’s discourse was a curtain-raiser of sorts for an upcoming draft bill against “separatist” threats, which officials say also include groups like white …
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Amid growing protests and condemnations against anti-Islam rhetoric in France, Paris dissolved on Wednesday BarakaCity, one of the country’s largest Muslim charities. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed the development on Twitter, sharing a detailed decree agreed during the Council of Ministers meeting. He claimed that the NGO has links to “radical Islamist movements,” and accused …
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It has been a week since a terrorist took the life of professor Samuel Paty, a history teacher in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. The killer claimed he wanted to take revenge, after a video was disseminated on social networks, claiming Pr Paty discussed Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in the classroom. Since then, there has …
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A mosque in Vernon district in northern France received a threatening notice Tuesday, according to a post on Twitter by the Islam & Info website. The notice, left in the mosque’s mailbox, contained death threats and insulting messages against Turks, Arabs and the community who comes to the mosque regularly. “The war has begun. …
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The Abu Eid siblings told Roya the attackers yelled, ‘This is France and not for you,’ after targeting them for speaking Arabic at a bus stop. The attackers have not yet been caught. Muhammad Abu Eid, who teaches Arabic in a French governmental school, and Heba Abu Eid, who, on scholarship from the French Embassy …
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Two Muslim women were ‘stabbed repeatedly’ under the Eiffel Tower amid rising tensions in Paris after the beheading of a teacher last week. French police have arrested two female suspects after an argument about dogs allegedly descended into violence and racist insults including the words ‘Dirty Arabs’. One of the Muslim women said the attackers …
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A racist attack Friday targeted a Turkish butcher shop for the second time in a week in western France’s Nantes. Assailants, who attacked the shop four days after their first raid, vandalized the shop with racist and anti-Muslim statements including “Death to Turks,” “Death to Erdoğan,” “Go back your country” and “Long live pigs.” The …
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If the government wanted to appear clear in its intentions, it has failed. According to a survey YouGov for The HuffPost carried out between Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November, 73% of French people consider the government’s communication on the conditions of confinement inconsistent. A figure comparable to what had already been deplored on the obligation to wear a …
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A mosque in northern France suffered an Islamophobic attack in which a pig’s head was left in the Muslim house of worship, said mosque officials on Monday. The head was found in the Grand Mosque in the city of Compiegne in Oise, where restoration work is being done, the Turkish-Muslim umbrella group DITIB in Compiegne …
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France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex on Wednesday announced a draft law against radical extremism which Muslims fear, if passed, will target them unfairly. The announcement came at a news conference following a cabinet meeting which was also attended by President Emmanuel Macron. The “anti-separatism” bill will focus on ethnic communities, including Muslims, who do not …
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