On 27thof February, Decathlon, the leading French sport company has announced via its spokesperson, the withdrawal from sales of its latest product, a hijabfor runners. This product has created a massive controversy in France, with both vehement debates online and political reactions, which illustrate, once again, for the international press, the complicated relationship between France…
8 February 2013 Dr Leon Moosavi, who is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, took on MPs’ lack of seriousness regarding Islamophia, in an article published on the University of Liverpool website. In the article he demonstrates his point by referring to the recent Early Day Motion attempt in the Parliament. MP…
24 January 2013 Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a senior member of the Conservative Party and a Minister of State for Faith and Communities, has said that more Muslims are victims of hate crimes now than at any other time in Britain’s history, showing a rise in Isalmophobia which needs to be dealt with effectively. …
Stopping briefly at the annual CRIF (French Council of Jewish Institutions or the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives en France) dinner in Paris, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called those engaging in anti-Semitic and anti-Islamophobic actions “racists who should not be accepted in the French Republic.” In his speech, Prime Minister François Fillon recognized that the…
