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 – 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 – 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 – With a 72% increase in Islamophobic acts in early 2025 compared to 2024, tens of thousands of Muslims are leaving France, marking a human tragedy that raises urgent questions about the country’s commitment to its own values.
News ID: 3494999 Publish Date : 2025/10/14
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 – Foreign nationals are suspected of placing pig heads outside several mosques in the Paris region before leaving France, prosecutors said.
News ID: 3494561 Publish Date : 2025/09/11
IQNA – Authorities in France have opened an investigation after pig heads were discovered outside several mosques in the Paris area.
News ID: 3494553 Publish Date : 2025/09/10
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 – 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 Muslim theology school in France slammed the government’s push to dissolve it, warning it would have consequences.
News ID: 3493570 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 – French Muslims leaving France were asked in a recent survey to identify their reasons for leaving the country.
News ID: 3493374 Publish Date : 2025/06/08
IQNA – A 27-year-old man who set fire to a Quran outside the Errahma Mosque in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, is scheduled to stand trial on July 30, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday, June 5.
News ID: 3493350 Publish Date : 2025/06/07
IQNA – A Quran desecration in Lyon, France, has drawn condemnation, with police launching an investigation into the incident.
News ID: 3493323 Publish Date : 2025/06/04
IQNA – The French government has been slammed for targeting a European organization dedicated to fighting anti-Muslim bigotry.
News ID: 3493279 Publish Date : 2025/05/30
IQNA – Muslims in France feel increasingly exposed to "constant suspicion," following the publication of excerpts from a government-commissioned report on Muslim political communities.
News ID: 3493194 Publish Date : 2025/05/22
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
