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Anti-Muslim Incidents Soar in France in Wake of Paris Attacks
[AnNahar] The number of anti-Moslem incidents in La Belle France has soared since the Islamist attacks in Gay Paree two weeks ago, an organization that tracks Islamophobia...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... said Monday. The National Observatory Against Islamophobia said 116 anti-Moslem incidents had been reported to authorities since the January 7-9 shooting spree by three French jihadists that killed 17. The two-week tally was more than double the number of incidents recorded for the full month of January 2014, the observatory said, reporting 28 attacks on places of worship and 88 threats. The observatory's president, Abdallah Zekri condemned the "acts of hatred towards French people of the Moslem faith, the immense majority of whom respect the values of the Republic and secularism." "This situation is unacceptable and we're asking the authorities to go beyond the reassuring speeches and act to put an end to this scourge," he said. Islam is La Belle France's second-biggest religion with an estimated 3,5-5 million followers. Several mosques have been attacked since the Gay Paree killings, which began with a massacre at Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...satirical weekly and ended with a bloody hostage taking in a Jewish supermarket. In several towns shots have been fired at mosques and racist slogans daubed on their walls. In Corsica, a pig's head was hung on the door of a prayer hall. President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and his government have repeatedly warned against tarring all Moslems with the bad boy brush. In a speech last week Hollande reiterated that "Moslems are the main victims of terrorism." A portion of the 10,000 troops mobilized last week to boost security have been assigned to protecting mosques. Some prominent political figures have, however, defied calls for unity, with remarks seen as fanning anti-Moslem sentiment. A senior member of the far-right National Front (FN) representing the party in the European Parliament, Aymeric Chauprade, declared in a video last week that La Belle France was "at war with some Moslems". "We're told a majority of Moslems are peaceful. But a majority of Germans were also (peaceful) before 1933 and national socialism," he said. FN leader Marine Le Pen, who has joined mainstream political parties in warning against confusing Islam and fundamentalism, distanced herself from Chauprade's remarks. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-20 |
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