From assaults to graffiti, French Muslims take hit after attacks

These figures only reflect those complaints which were lodged with police. “In Evreux in northern France, the town hall and other buildings were daubed with graffiti saying “Death to Muslims” and “(with a) suitcase or (in a) coffin” – a reference to how the protesters wanted Muslims to leave town.

“These attacks are not representative of an entire faith”, he said. Just 30 minutes; this is an outrageous indecency. Still, that did not stop Muslims and non-Muslims alike from packing the midday service.

“We have men, women and children who come to the masjid to pray every day, and since these Paris attacks, they have reduced the frequency of their visits to the masjid with fear for their lives”, said Nasir Husain, general secretary of the Omaha Islamic Center in Nebraska.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says that European Union interior and justice ministers have assigned the EU’s executive Commission to draw up a proposal for the Schengen free-travel zone to allow for “the systematic control” of all people entering through the bloc’s external borders. Hate crimes, intrusive surveillance programs, restrictions on civil liberties, demands to do more to combat terrorism – all of this is pretty typical of what Muslims endure after attacks from violent extremists.

“As for the calls to shut radical mosques: first, how do you define a “radical” mosque?” “Marine Le Pen, Nicolas Sarkozy… right-wing politicians are using the blood of those victims as a fuel for their political goals, for their electoral campaigns”, Louati says.

France is set to hold local elections in December.

They associate their tragedies to our religion, the religion that we pompously affiliate to peace.

The West – Europe, in particular -is in a terrifying bind, for it has living in its midst substantial populations of Muslims, the majority of whom are poorly integrated into Western society. The disparity in our concern for victims of terrorism, depending on the country attacked and the dominant religion, inadvertently feeds into their narrative. Shiite mosques have been blown up, and the violence sees no signs of stopping. “These are problems the United States does not have – at least not almost to the degree that Europe does”, Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, former USA government officials now at Dartmouth College argue in The NY Times.

Since these attacks, French authorities say police have conducted over 793 raids, detaining 90 people and seizing weapons, continuing what President Francois Hollande vowed to be a “merciless” war against the terror group.

However, we need to take the steps to make these occurrences fewer and fewer.

But go and ask these youths what the Ottomans mean to them! “We feel people are adding one and one to make three, thinking that all Muslims are terrorists”.

The Netherlands also has troops working with the United Nations mission in Mali.

“Despite the threats, we received a huge amount of solidarity”.

The world watched in horror last Friday as a series of coordinated attacks unfolded in Paris, leaving close to 130 people dead.

The inference the DNC appears to making here is astonishing.

“I think that coming out and publishing an apology recognizes that we’re not a part of the American diaspora”, Alawa said, “and instead tells America that we’re still not a part of it”.

With all this in mind, it is safe to say that the war with ISIS is not of religion.

He continued: “The attacks are just frightful, painful”. The Paris episode is no different in that respect. No xenophobic act, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, should be tolerated.