Pakistan Today – September 9, 2011 French police recently tried to identify a Facebook user who sought “to cut Muslims’s throats instead of sheep” during the Eid al-Adha feast, sparking the ire of Muslim and anti-racist groups. “Police are carrying out an investigation to identify the author of these unworthy declarations,” police said in a…
Speaking from the large gathering of French Muslims in Bourget, the UOIF (the Union of Islamic Organizations of France) claims a rise in Islamophobia recently in France.
The grand mosque of St-Étienne (Loire Valley) has been vandalized with ten racist and Islamophobic inscriptions. Similar statements were spray-painted on the mosque four years ago. The Regional Council of the Muslim Faith in the Rhône-Alpes (CRCM) has condemned the attack, adding that they hope justice will but brought forward as quickly as possible. They…
The Conseil Français du Culte Musulman (CFCM or the French Council of the Muslim Faith) have taken a position on the wearing of burqas in France, claiming that while they critique the practice, the do not condemn it. They are opposed a possible ban on the burqa in France, pointing to how the commission has…
According to the CCIF (The Collective Against Islamophobia in France or the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France), there were 80 Islamophobic acts recorded in the Republic in 2008, 59 against specific persons and 21 focused on specific locations (like mosques and cemeteries). 67% of acts against specific persons took place in Ile-de-France. The CCIF was…
