In Germany, graffiti and arson damage mosques and refugee camps

Unknown perpetrators have smudged the unfinished body shell of a mosque in the city of Dormagen with swastika Nazi symbols. The police refused to draw correlations between the assault and the current PEGIDA protests. Police and security authorities have initiated investigation, expecting that the assaults are politically motivated. At the same time, a fire assault…

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The government’s denial of the current stigmatization of French Muslims

Press release from Bertrand Dutheil de La Rochère, advisor of Marine Le Pen. “To refuse to denounce the Islamist fundamentalism in the light of current acts of individual terrorism is to deny what is real. Such silence will not lead to measures that would isolate and repress the extremists. With government inaction in the face…

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The mobilization of PEGIDA and the German debate on Islam and immigration

The right-wing protest movement Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the occident (PEGIDA) has provoked a broad discussion within German public on issues such as racism, refugees, Muslim immigrants and fatigue. Approximately 15.000 people have been joining the Monday marches, which take place every Monday in the city of Dresden, in East Germany. Other PEGIDA…

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The CFCM condemns Lunel mosque official’s remarks

The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) judged “totally unacceptable” remarks by a mosque leader in Lunel who refused to condemn young men from the town from becoming foreign fighters. Following the deaths of six men from Lunel, “unwelcome remarks were made by a local mosque official, who bears full responsibility for his words,”…

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Repealing the Chatel Circular, campaign to allow veiled mothers on school trips

A group of signatories have called for a repeal of the Chatel Circular: “We ask for the removal of the Chatel Circular, which prohibits veiled mothers from accompanying their children on school trips. We ask for its removal because it is discriminatory, because it only targets Muslim women. We ask for its removal because it…

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