Muslims in France are in danger. A market belonging to Muslims was set on fire in BonEncontre, southwest of France. Police launched an investigation into the incident. According to the news of the French newspaper La Depeche, it was stated that the market in Bon-Encontre was set on fire last night and the swastika, the …
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A group of Greek extremists targeted a mosque in Dimetoka (Didymoteicho), a town near the Turkish-Greek border, in an Islamophobic attack, media reports said Tuesday. The extremists on Monday hung anti-Islam banners across the Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque. “The Islamization of Meriç (Evros) must be stopped immediately” read the banners. The Turkish minority in Greece …
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Unidentified people attacked the Central Mosque of the Austrian Turkish-Islamic Culture and Social Assistance Union (ATİB) in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Two unidentified people attacked the entrance floor of the central building of ATIB, which has over 60 mosque associations across the country, late at night. Making a statement regarding the attack, Turkey’s Ambassador …
Muslims in the Dutch capital Amsterdam think Islamophobia is “becoming increasingly normalized in society,” local media reported Sunday. An English-language newspaper in the Netherlands, NL Times, reported that a study into Islamophobia conducted by the Amsterdam municipality found that Muslims living in the city regularly face discrimination. The NL Times reported that researchers in the …
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France has shut down a mosque for a six-month period amid an ongoing drive against Muslims and their places of worship. The Al-Farouk Mosque in Pessac district near the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France was closed for allegedly defending “radical Islam” and “spreading Salafist ideology,” the Gironde governorate said Monday in a statement. The …
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Right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen has pledged to impose a total ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in public places if elected France’s next president. The leader of the National Rally party, who is currently leading second in polls after President Emmanuel Macron, told BFMTV news on Sunday that she aims to ban …
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A local college district has launched a formal investigation of a faculty member after some controversial comments about Muslims surfaced. “My reaction was one of disbelief that this was happening on a college campus in Southern California,” said Dina Chehata, a civil rights attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles. An anonymous source …
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Two mosques in northern France have been closed allegedly on grounds that the mosque buildings were not safe for hosting the prayer congregation, local media reported. The mosques were closed by the Tourcoing city administration. A security commission inspected the buildings of the Salman al-Farisi Mosque and the Clinquet Mosque belonging to the Read in …
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A mosque in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence was vandalized on Monday, in the midst of the increasing acts of Islamophobia in France. French news outlet BFM TV reported that attackers left anti-islam tags such as “Islam kills” and “Islam out of Europe” on the walls of the mosque. The Islamophobia act took place a …
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Around 90 percent of Germans believe that racism exists in the country, according to the study from the new National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa). Researchers in the survey, carried out by the German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), found that nearly half of respondents – 45 percent – said they had observed …
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