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France: Islamophobic attacks increase by 23.5 %
Islamophobic acts in France have increased by 23.5 percent in the first six months of 2015 compared with the same period last year, a French nongovernmental organization has said in a new report. The figure was released Thursday in a report titled “Islamophobia in France six months after the January 2015 terrorist attacks” by the…
Muslims call for ‘combatting extremism and terrorism’
“France is experiencing its second shock in six months,” said Kamel Kabtane (rector of the Grand mosque of Lyon), Laid Bendidi (president of the regional Muslim council), and Azzedine Gaci (rector of the Villeurbanne mosque), in a joint statement following the attack in Isere. They “wish to express their condemnation of the diabolical attack carried…
After attack, French Council of the Muslim Faith launches appeal
“The CFCM condemns with the greatest vigor the terror attack that struck the Air Products of Saint-Quentin-Fallavier factory in Isere,” wrote the former president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith Dalil Boubakeur. “The CFCM expresses its deepest outrage following the unspeakable acts that cannot be claimed by any religion or cause,” he added,…
Collective Against Islamophobia in France Statement
“The CCIF is profoundly shocked by the latest unspeakable act of violence. We send our condolences to the families and friends of the victims. In an already difficult environment, where French society is plagued by a rise in racism and intolerance as well as by a recrudescence in Islamophobic acts, we warn against any attempt…
France Deporting Radical Muslim Imams
Are some mosques brewing militant Islam and terrorism? France thinks so, and they are doing something about it. Over the past three years, France has deported 40 foreign imams for “preaching hatred.” A quarter of those have taken place since the January terror attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. The minister vowed…