148 Muslim tombs were desecrated with anti-Islamic and insults against Rachida Dati in the military cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in the Pas-de-Calais in Northern France. Numerous French officials, including Nicolas Sarkozy, Fran_ois Fillon, Rachida Dati and Mich_le Alliot-Marie have pronounced their condemnation of the act. The incident took place almost exactly a year after 52 other…
Arab and Muslim candidates fared poorly in the first round of French municipal elections, with only one elected to a local office and few others with opportunity in the second round of voting. Running on the Socialist slate, Samia Ghali won District 8 in Marseille, the country’s second largest city. Ghali became the first Muslim…
CAIRO – French Justice Minister Rachida Dati is facing a smear campaign by right-wing media and “jealous” politicians, who cannot swallow a Muslim woman of poor ethnic background holding such a prestigious post, Britain’s Times reported on Tuesday, July 17. “Rachida Dati is paying for being an outsider, because she is young, a woman and…
Today, President Sarkozy appointed his former spokeswoman Rachida Dati as the new Minister of Justice. Ms. Dati is from a Moroccan Algerian family with twelve children. She was Sarkozy’s spokeswoman during the Sarkozy’s election campaign. When questioned about her future role in the integration question with the Minister of the Interior, she cast Sarkozy as…
