{"id":57423,"date":"2025-04-28T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57423\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:23:11","slug":"france-muslims-rally-against-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57423\/","title":{"rendered":"France Muslims Rally Against Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabat \u2013 A heinous murder of a Muslim man in a mosque last week on Friday has caused more frustration and panic among the Muslim community in France amid an already fragile situation triggered by increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2025\/04\/194342\/france-identifies-grande-combe-mosque-stabbing-attack-as-islamophobic-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamophobia<\/a> and government restrictions on religious freedom in the European country.<\/p>\n<p>A rally took place on Sunday evening, with many protesters accusing government officials \u2013 including Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau \u2013 of fueling anti-Muslim hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Retailleau\u2019s fault,\u201d one protester said as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/flash-actu\/tout-est-a-cause-de-lui-bruno-retailleau-pointe-du-doigt-a-la-manifestation-contre-l-islamophobie-a-paris-20250427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted<\/a> by Le Figaro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, everything is because of him,\u201d another protester said, according to the French news outlet, which stressed that the interior minister\u2019s name was on everyone\u2019s lips.<\/p>\n<p>The rally came after a man killed a Muslim mosque goer, stabbing him for over 40 times in cold blood inside a mosque in Grande Combe on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mosque goers found the victim\u2019s body in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2025\/04\/193868\/muslim-man-murdered-stabbed-over-40-times-in-mosque-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mosque<\/a> around 11:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At first, reports claimed the attack came from a fellow mosque goer. On Saturday, however, the French government acknowledged it was an Islamophobic attack, and that the perpetrator had just pretended to be a mosque goer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vile act of Islamophobia was displayed in a video,\u201d French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on X on Saturday, expressing condolences to the victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cState resources have been mobilized to ensure the killer is captured and published,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Several reports said that the suspect, who is still on the run, filmed the heinous murder and insulted God and Islam during his attack.<\/p>\n<p>He also reportedly expressed intent to kill again.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s family is calling for justice.\u201cWhat makes a nation is justice. Nothing is worse than when a part of the people feels abandoned by justice,\u201d the victim\u2019s brother said.<\/p>\n<p>Many are speaking out about the act, saying that the victim is a martyr of Islamophobia and racism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAboubakar is not just the victim of a terrorist,\u201d activist Anasse Kazib said, insisting it is part of a large systemic problem. He criticized France and the increase of racist and racist remarks towards Muslims from different officials, including Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are criminalized. Thousands of us are suffocating from the situation. How many nephews and nieces leave France because they find it unbearable? There\u2019s no future. This is what the authorities want. To drive Muslims out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabat \u2013 A heinous murder of a Muslim man in a mosque last week on Friday has caused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,29140,26389],"class_list":{"0":"post-57423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-islam-in-france","12":"tag-islamophobia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114415573715561863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}