"If we remain silent, the country we love and to which we are attached, will fall even more into the trap of racism and hatred, to the sole benefit of the far right and terrorists." This is the alarm cry of more than 70 municipal elected officials against the "racist, unconstitutional and counterproductive" actions taken by the French government.
The citizenship education professor suspended for showing a caricature of the naked prophet Mohammad to 10-year-old students was reinstated last Thursday, announced the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean college. However, he will receive support from the educational cell of the municipality and the mobile teams of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
The dissolution by a government decree, on December 2, of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), continues to provoke reactions within civil society. The Union of French Lawyers (SAF), between indignation and disappointment, denounces a "serious attack on fundamental freedoms and democracy".
Following the complaint filed by the League of Human Rights, reporting the "anti-Semitic and Islamophobic" remarks of a law professor at the University of Aix-Marseille, an investigation will be opened. This is what the Aix-Marseille prosecutor’s office has indicated.
The French government announced, on Wednesday, in the Council of Ministers, the dissolution of the Collective against Islamophobia (CCIF). According to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, this organization has been "carrying out Islamist propaganda for several years".
A journalist from the New York Times spoke about the French model, particularly on secularism and caricatures. He criticized the recent statements of Emmanuel Macron on the issue.
Leila, a customer of Société Générale, was forced by an employee of the Hénin-Beaumont branch to remove her veil. Even if security reasons were invoked by the bank, the woman sees Islamophobia in it and decides to file a complaint.
For more than 20 years, Mohamed Bajrafil has been an imam in France. The religious leader of Comorian origin who mainly worked at the mosque in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, has just renounced his position.
The leaders of the Muslim faith presented to the French President Emmanuel Macron, at his request, the plan for a national council of imams. This council will have the role of certifying the imams in France.
A Danish anti-Islamic activist was expelled from France on Wednesday, November 11. He had intended to burn copies of the Quran at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe.
Outrage in Nîmes where the manager of a Vital store has put up a sign in his window, banning access to veiled women. The justice system has decided to open an investigation.
Faced with the climate of anger in the Muslim world, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian issued on Thursday a "message of peace to the Muslim world." The French Foreign Minister recalled that France was the "country of tolerance," not of "contempt or rejection."