Aged 19 to 55, Sarah, Zouna, Sabrina, Hind, Safia and Inès*, from various backgrounds in France, recount slices of life on wearing the veil, at a time when the debates around this issue are returning and intensifying.
Commentator Eric Zemmour wants to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). He had been convicted of incitement to religious hatred after his appearance on the show "C à vous" on September 6, 2016.
The assault on a veiled woman accompanying her son to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regional Council, on Friday, October 11, by Julien Odoul, an RN elected official, continues to cause waves. This time, it is 90 French personalities who have called on President Emmanuel Macron to end hatred against Muslims.
Racist and anti-Muslim speech seems to be being liberated in France, especially in the media. After Eric Zemmour and his multiple slips, it is Yves Thréard, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Le Figaro, who is pouring out his hatred on Islam.
He is 36 years old and is from the Rif region of Morocco. Mehdi Riffi was ordained a deacon, assisting the priest in his duties, on Sunday, October 6, at the Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Alençon, in northwestern France.
On the sidelines of the Ordinary Public Consistory, on Saturday, October 5, in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis elevated thirteen archbishops to the rank of Cardinal, including Mgr Cristobal Lopez Romero, a Spanish Salesian, also Archbishop of Rabat .
The knife attack that occurred within the Paris Police Headquarters last Thursday, with the death of four civil servants, continues to agitate the news in France. Among other solutions to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, there is the halt of the construction of new mosques, according to Nadine Morano. The European deputy expressed herself on BFMTV on Sunday, October 6th.
The author of the book "Can we talk about religions at school?", Isabelle Saint-Martin, settles the question of teaching religions at school in France, where 900 cases of violation of the principle of secularism were reported between April and July, in the school environment.
The Collective against Islamophobia in Belgium (CCIB) has highlighted the increase in Islamophobic attacks noted in 2018. In total, 80 cases of Islamophobia were opened, which represents a 10% increase compared to 2017.
Moroccan-born writer based in Barcelona since the age of eight, Najat el Hachmi is a reference in the feminist and anti-racist struggle in favor of Muslim women.
A desperate act due to psychiatric disorders or gratuitous malice? The Judicial Police may turn the case in all directions, but they cannot determine the reasons why a man, at the wheel of his car, deliberately rammed a mosque. The man, according to the Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Colmar, of which he is a native, has no criminal record, apart from traffic offenses committed many years ago.
Three police officers from the West Brussels area, two of whom are of Maghrebi origin, were the target of insults in Arabic, uttered by a motorist who called them traitors to the community.