Since the attacks, representatives of the Muslim community have been subjected to acts of Islamophobia. “Muslims are caught in a trap, between those who kill in the name of Islam and extremists who want to unleash their stigmatising rhetoric on Muslims,” explains Abdallah Zekri, president of the Observatory against Islamophobia at the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM).
More than fifty anti-Muslim acts have been recorded in France since the Charlie Hebdo attack, announced the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) on Monday, January 12.
According to the president of the Observatory against Islamophobia at the CFCM, citing figures from the Ministry of the Interior, there have been 21 actions (shootings, grenades thrown, etc.) and 33 threats (letters, insults, etc.).
This count does not include Paris and its inner suburbs, and does not cover the fire that broke out Sunday evening at the site of the mosque under construction in Poitiers, clarified the Muslim official, who claims to be “outraged” by these figures, “unprecedented” in less than a week.
Neither “generalization” nor “one-upmanship.” After three days of horror, Franรงois Hollande had called on the French to unite, regardless of religion.
But since the attack on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office, many mosques have been targeted, although they have not sustained significant damage.
In addition to these damages, other threats have surfaced, with bullet impacts detected on some places of worship.
Muslims have not been spared by the attacks.
Ahmed Merabet, the police officer killed at close range in front of the Charlie Hebdo editorial office, was Muslim.
