France
Veiled woman attacked
Liberation 14.06.2013 A 21-year-old veiled Muslim woman was attacked in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise) by two men in what is believed to be a racially motivated attack. The woman reported the incident to the police and described it as having had her veil pulled off and being slapped by one of the men. The attack follows another…
French Turks voice their opinion on anti-state protests in Turkey
12.06.2013 Zaman France The government-critical Taksim protest movement that has rocked much of Turkey in the last two weeks has led to an intensified focus of Western media, including French news outlets, on Turkey’s rising urban dissident movement. France is after Germany the home to one of the globe’s largest Turkish and Kurdish diasporas with…
French Council on the Muslim Faith vote a success
Liberation 09.06.2013 The much anticipated election of the French Council on the Muslim Faith (CFCM) and the French Regional Council of the Muslim Faith (CRCM) took place this Saturday with great public participation. Despite a widespread boycott call of the Union of Islamic Organisations of France (UOIF), the election was a success with 76% of…
Arrest made in soldier attack
Liberation 29.05.2013 A 22 year old white French convert to Islam was arrested for the recent attack against a French soldier at La Defense. Alexander D. Is suspected of having sliced the throat of a 25-year-old French soldier on parole in the suburban Parisian business district of La Défense. The soldier survived the attack and…
France: Pig head in front of mosque
28.05.2013 Members of the Muslim Association of Narbonne (Aude) found a blood trenched pig head and four of its paws placed on the construction site of a mosque in the city. The attack follows a number of islamophobic attacks against mosque construction sites in other French cities.