Tag: France

French Court Lifts Mayor’s Ban On Muslim Hijab At Beach

DTT: The Land of the free. The land of democracy. Sorry, it is not. Muslim women have been discriminated against as a result of them wanting to freely wear a piece of cloth on their Hair. 50 years ago if you wore more clothes it was seen by the wider society as someone who is modest…. Read More ›

Senior Rabbi Warns, Burka Ban ‘Crosses Red Line’

DTT: The chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt’s words are comforting for those Muslim women who are forced by the state to take off something that they have voluntarily chosen to wear. For the State to decide what a woman can wear and not wear is a sign of dictatorship. Some of these “Democratic” countries preach about… Read More ›

2 Jewish Defence League Members Jailed For 2012 Attempted Bombing

By I24news.tv – June 27th 2014 Two French Jews jailed for a 2012 plot to bomb the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris. Two French Jews have been jailed for a 2012 plot to bomb the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris, according to the JTA. The two men, identified only as Bismuth and Benhamou,… Read More ›

Marine Le Pen, a French politician and the president of the Front National (FN), notorious for her virulently Islamophobic rhetoric. (Photo: Reuters)

Islamophobia in France

By EMRE DEMİR French Muslims are shocked by yet more Islamophobic remarks from political figures. This time, a right-wing mayor, Claude Goasguen, said that it was impossible “to teach the Holocaust in secondary schools as we are afraid of the reactions of those drug-addicted Muslims in mosques.” These words, however, didn’t make the headlines. Yes,… Read More ›

Islam is “perfectly compatible with the values of France,” Hollande said.

France Pays Muslim Soldiers’ Debt

By OnIslam & News Agencies PARIS – A century after their sacrifices to France, long forgotten French Muslim soldiers have been remembered by President Francois Hollande who said France “owed a debt” to Muslim soldiers who died in World War I, pledging to fight racism and discrimination targeting the religious minority. “France will never forget… Read More ›

Islamophobic Attack On A Veiled Mother in Moselle, France

It’s just good old “muscular liberalism,” right? Whatever it is, there is no doubt that the French government’s attitude towards Islam and its Muslim population has contributed to an environment where veiled women can and are attacked. (h/t: Al-Kanz) Islamophobic Attack On A Veiled Mother in Moselle Collectif Contre L’Islamophobie En France (Google Translate) The incident… Read More ›