One year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) called for an “open mosque” weekend across France, but the results have been mixed. The mosque of Puteaux might be the most open in France. The building has been under construction since 2011, so there are literally no doors, only…
Preachers at the Lagny-sur-Marne mosque had spent years “inciting hatred and calling for jihad” according to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Cazeneuve added the mosque in east Paris was closed in December for being at the heart of a jihadist recruitment network. The Islamic groups ran the mosque in Paris that was shut down late last…
Organized by the country’s leading Muslim body, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), the initiative aims to stimulate dialogue about Islam and create a greater sense of “national cohesion”, a year after 17 people were killed in militant attacks in Paris targeting satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket “The objective is…
A man has been arrested after two pigs’ heads were dumped outside an Islamic school in Lancashire. Police said the 28-year-old was held on suspicion of racially-aggravated provocation following the incident at Markazul Uloom Girls’ School in Blackburn. Detectives launched a hate crime investigation and scoured CCTV footage after the animal remains were left at…
More mosque incidents were recorded in 2015 than in any year since we started keeping this tally. 2015 accounted for the most ever cases in both the Damage, Destruction, Vandalism category and the Intimidation category, adding weight to assertions that the most recent cycle of Islamophobia is characterized by its violent tone. November 2015 was…
