In France, immigration is a central issue in the presidential campaign, while many French Muslims are emigrating abroad due to discrimination and stigmatization. The "brain drain" of those who could serve as models of integration is hardly a concern for the candidates.
The Grenoble Criminal Court sentenced a 48-year-old man to 10 months in prison, 5 of which were suspended, for having damaged two Muslim prayer rooms, in Domène and La Mure (Isère), at the end of December 2021.
Several tenant and housing associations such as the Union sociale pour l’habitat (USH) have decided to file a complaint against the candidate of the Reconquête party, Eric Zemmour, for whom "social housing are lands of Islamization".
Gérald Darmanin, the French Minister of the Interior, believes that the launch of the Forum of Islam in France (FORIF) is a "founding" act, more so than the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) was in its time.
Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior whose department is behind the launch of the Forum of Islam of France (FORIF), a new governance body for the Muslim faith, assures that the State is willing to support Muslims if they organize themselves.
The launch of the Forum of Islam in France (FORIF) is not to the liking of Muslim leaders, who denounce "a colonial Islam".
The Great Mosque of Paris announced on Friday that it will now be governed by the 1905 law regime, in accordance with the new provisions imposed by the government.
The National School of Religious Cadres and Muslim Chaplains (Encram) in Ostwald, in partnership with the University of Strasbourg, has opened its doors to train French imams.
A few weeks before the presidential election in France, Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani expressed her fears about the identity issue and the candidacy of Éric Zemmour.
Jordan Bardella, interim president of the National Rally (RN) has been indicted for having described Trappes as an "Islamic republic", after the re-election of its mayor, Ali Rabeh, in October 2021.
The fresco painted on a private wall on Rue Hébert in Grenoble, depicting a woman wearing a striped veil, with a yellow star where "muslim" is written, has provoked strong reactions from local elected officials or the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France. As a result, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region has decided to withdraw its subsidies from the Street art fest Grenoble Alpes festival.
The municipal councilor of Molenbeek, Ahmed El Khannouss, former regional deputy, will probably be excluded from the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH) if he commits another slip-up. This is the latest warning from the party’s ethics committee, which had been seized after the remarks of the elected official on the decision of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi (CD&V), to withdraw the residence permit of the Moroccan imam Mohamed Toujgani and to ban him from accessing the territory for 10 years.