IQNA – The year 2025 was one of the most difficult for Muslims in France, marked by violence that reached the level of "elimination based on religion," according to Rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris Chems-Eddine Hafiz.
News ID: 3495953 Publish Date : 2026/01/04
IQNA – In the latest application of France’s strict secular laws in the public sphere, a number of Muslim nurses have been fired from state hospitals for refusing to remove their headscarves while on duty, leading to accusations of religious discrimination.
News ID: 3495818 Publish Date : 2025/12/22
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
