About fifty athletes, including Eric Cantona and Lilian Thuram, have pleaded the cause of female athletes wearing the veil. They have just published the petition entitled "Let the "hijabeuses" play", to make the French legislators see reason.
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".
Professors at the Francisco Ferrer Higher Education Institute have relaunched legal proceedings against the wearing of ideological symbols at the school. Some 70 professors have decided to file a third-party appeal. The students denounce a relentless pursuit.
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".
Meeting on Monday, January 31, the Joint Committee (CMP) was unable to reach an agreement on the draft law aimed at democratizing sport in France. Some deputies opposed an amendment added by Senator of Isère Michel Savin (LR), which provided for extending the law on secularism in schools to sports competitions, by banning the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols.
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.
Ophélie Meunier, presenter of "Zone Interdite" and Amine Elbahi, a 25-year-old lawyer from Roubaix, have been the subject of threats following the broadcast of the investigation into radical Islam filmed largely in Roubaix. They have both been placed under police protection.