During a rally against Islamophobia organized in Paris after the murder committed Friday in a mosque in Gard, the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon , embraces a tearful Muslim woman.
Security around all mosques in France will be reinforced, announced Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, on Sunday. A measure taken after the murder of a young Malian, stabbed to death on Friday in a mosque in Gard.
Targeted by racist and Islamophobic insults, Moroccan striker of FC Volendam, Bilal Ould-Chikh, has decided to leave the Netherlands for Morocco after his career.
Barely had he announced the opening of his restaurant in the Plan Cabanes neighborhood of Montpellier when a Muslim couple became the target of racist and Islamophobic insults.
In France, an act deemed Islamophobic prompts the coach of a club to resign from his position.
It’s hard to be a Muslim in France these days. This is the observation made by Kamel Kabtane, rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, who expresses his fears about the future of Muslims in France, "seen as terrorists, Salafists, Islamists."
A study by the National Observatory of Discrimination and Equality in Higher Education (Ondes), published this week, highlights a major obstacle to employment in France: wearing the veil.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) reacts to "the racist and anti-Muslim aggression suffered by a 42-year-old woman with a disability, wearing a veil and recently weakened by chemotherapy treatment." The Muslim organization also denounces the fact that some media and politicians "seem to have a variable indignation depending on the skin color, origin or religion of the victims."
Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a pro-Palestinian activist, is considered the main defendant in the murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher at the Bois-d’Aulne college, killed in October 2020. Like his seven co-defendants, he appears this Monday before the Paris Assize Court.
Amazement and consternation at the Assounnah mosque in south Amiens this Tuesday, October 29. Arriving for the morning prayer, the faithful discovered the rear facade of the building blackened by the flames.
Clash between Pascal Boniface and Karim Bouamrane. The director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) described the mayor of Saint-Ouen as a "Muslim in appearance" after the latter abstained from commenting on the war in Gaza during his appearance on the show Quelle époque on France 2. The Moroccan-born socialist elected official did not fail to react to these remarks.
In a video shared on social media, a French woman of Maghrebi origin recounts how she was the victim of discrimination in hiring because of her first name and religion. The post sparked a wave of outrage on the web.