IQNA – French conservative senators have drawn sharp criticism from Muslim community leaders after proposing a new report that recommends measures including banning headscarves for mothers on school trips and prohibiting fasting for minors—steps critics decry as a discriminatory use of laïcité, the country's secular principle.
News ID: 3495685 Publish Date : 2025/12/09
IQNA – A new nationwide survey has found that Muslims in France report higher levels of religion-based discrimination than any other group.
News ID: 3495631 Publish Date : 2025/12/06
IQNA – France's main Muslim body said worshippers are "deeply shocked and hurt" after an individual broke into a mosque in south-central France, tearing and discarding copies of the Quran.
News ID: 3495594 Publish Date : 2025/12/02
IQNA – France’s interior minister has pushed back against a fresh attempt to outlaw the hijab for girls in public spaces, warning that the plan risks unfairly targeting Muslim youth.
News ID: 3495582 Publish Date : 2025/12/01
IQNA – A new IFOP survey on Islam in France has sparked a formal backlash, with several Muslim associations filing a complaint that says the poll breaches legal obligations for impartiality in public opinion research.
News ID: 3495516 Publish Date : 2025/11/25
IQNA – France’s Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has condemned a new Ifop poll, arguing it reinforces stigma and exacerbates anti-Muslim sentiment.
News ID: 3495475 Publish Date : 2025/11/21
IQNA – The Paris Grand Mosque deplored desecration of the Quran by an unidentified man inside a mosque in central France, urging the authorities to take serious action against Islamophobic hate crimes.
News ID: 3494823 Publish Date : 2025/10/01
IQNA – Two-thirds of Muslims in France say they have faced racist behavior, according to a new survey that highlights widespread discrimination across jobs, housing, and public services.
News ID: 3494642 Publish Date : 2025/09/17
IQNA – French authorities have launched an investigation after an arson attempt against a Muslim prayer hall in Châtillon-sur-Seine, an act condemned by officials as cowardly and anti-Muslim.
News ID: 3494266 Publish Date : 2025/08/16
IQNA – A 27-year-old man in France was sentenced to one year in prison for desecration Islam’s Holy Book.
News ID: 3494074 Publish Date : 2025/08/01
IQNA – The mayor of Limoges has sparked widespread backlash over remarks widely condemned as anti-Muslim, following a night of violent clashes between masked youths and police in the French city.
News ID: 3494038 Publish Date : 2025/07/29
IQNA – French authorities have reported a 75% increase in anti-Muslim acts during the first five months of 2025, with attacks against individuals more than tripling compared to the same period last year.
News ID: 3493712 Publish Date : 2025/07/04
IQNA – Local authorities in Isère, southeastern France, are investigating a vandalism incident at the “Al-Hidayah” mosque in Roussillon.
News ID: 3493646 Publish Date : 2025/06/29
IQNA – A new mosque named after Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia officially opened its doors in Paris on Sunday.
News ID: 3493565 Publish Date : 2025/06/24
IQNA – The dominance of the far-right over the political scene in France has grown in recent years and the anti-Muslim project of Minister of Interior Bruno Retailleau is one of its indications.
News ID: 3493385 Publish Date : 2025/06/09
IQNA – The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has called on France and the European Union to officially recognize the State of Palestine and suspend their political and economic agreements with Israel, citing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
News ID: 3493175 Publish Date : 2025/05/21
IQNA – An investigation has been initiated into allegations of “incitement to hatred based on religion,” according to a statement issued Thursday afternoon by Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren, the public prosecutor in Orléans.
News ID: 3493104 Publish Date : 2025/05/16
IQNA – Thousands of people marched through Paris and other French cities on Sunday to protest a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and to pay tribute to Aboubakar Cissé, a young Malian man killed in a mosque.
News ID: 3493053 Publish Date : 2025/05/12
IQNA – A French man accused of stabbing a worshipper to death at a mosque in southern France has been formally charged with premeditated murder motivated by race or religion, the Nîmes prosecutor’s office said on Friday.
News ID: 3493030 Publish Date : 2025/05/11
IQNA – Italy extradited to France the suspect in the case of murder of a young man in a French mosque.
News ID: 3493009 Publish Date : 2025/05/10
