Firebombs and pigs heads thrown into mosques as anti-Muslim attacks increase after Paris shootings

[Violet_Crumble]

Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence in the wake of the Paris attacks.



France’s National Observatory Against Islamophobia reports that since last Wednesday a total of 60 Islamophobic incidents have been recorded, with countless minor encounters believed to have gone unreported.

Amongst the incidents, a mosque in Le Mans was hit with four grenades, and gunfire directed through one of its windows.

While Islamophobic incidents are nothing new, there appears to have been a marked increase in attacks in the wake of the shootings at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/firebombs-and-pigs-heads-thrown-into-mosques-as-antimuslim-attacks-increase-after-paris-shootings-9977423.html

[cali]

1. The French authorities need to protect Mosques as vigorously as they're protecting

Jewish Schools and Synagogues.

[azurnoir]

2. Thank for posting this doesn't seem to be very 'big' news

I Googled "anti-Muslim attacks increase after Paris shootings" and got this article, democracy now, Russia Today, and a ME paper , that's about it though which is sad really and oh yeah some stuuf about how anti Islam laws are growing more popular

[oberliner]

4. Your Google might need to be repaired

Anti-Muslim acts escalate after Paris terrorist attacks

http://www.france24.com/en/20150113-france-anti-muslim-acts-spread-charlie-hebdo-terrorist-attacks-islam-mosques/

Charlie Hebdo terror spree spawns anti-Muslim attacks throughout France

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/charlie-hebdo-terror-spawns-anti-muslim-attacks-france-article-1.2075977

Mosques Attacked in France Following Charlie Hebdo Attack

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Lots of coverage about this (as well there should be).

[azurnoir]

5. I knew I could depend on you thanks for 2 more that must have been found using

different parameters thanks

still realy not much coverage though albeit I'm sure more than enough for some

[oberliner]

8. There are several dozen articles on the subject that come up

Do you want a link to each one?

[azurnoir]

9. yes post them please along with the search parameters used to find them

show us just how much attention this is getting

[oberliner]

13. You are lucky it's a slow morning

Care2.com - ?Jan 13, 2015?
The anti-Muslim backlash in France is also spilling over into other nations, particularly in Germany, where mosque attacks and anti-Muslim sentiment have been escalating problems in recent years. As France reels in the wake of the attacks, the nation's ...

International Business Times UK - ?Jan 12, 2015?
... vandalism, have been reported in France since the deadly attacks in Paris. The deaths of 17 people in the French capital at the hands of three Islamist radicals have fuelled a wave of anti-Muslim hatred, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) said.

France witnesses spike in anti-Muslim attacks after Charlie Hebdo shootings
Daily News & Analysis - ?19 hours ago?
More than 50 anti-Muslim incidents have been reported across France since the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris a week ago. The reports include incidents of shootings and threats against Muslims in France. The anti-Muslim backlash started on January 7 and ...

Anti-Muslim attacks rise in France as Muslims ask for protection
Kuwait News Agency - ?Jan 12, 2015?
PARIS, Jan 12 (KUNA) -- There has been a sharp increase in anti-Muslim attacks in France since the terrorist attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and against a Jewish supermarket in Paris last Wednesday and Friday, converging sources ...

France: More than 50 Anti-Muslim Attacks Since Charlie Hebdo Shootings
InSerbia News - ?Jan 13, 2015?
Over 50 attacks, including shootings, have been carried out against Muslims across France in less than a week since a fatal raid on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the country's Muslim community says, Al-Alam reports. Photo: Al-Alam. The 54 assaults ...

France sees dozens of anti-Muslim incidents
The Local.fr - ?Jan 12, 2015?
The council, which monitors Islamophobic attacks in France, reported on Monday that there have already been scores of possible reprisal attacks on the country's Muslim community. Since Wednesday, when Islamic terrorists killed 12 people at the Charlie ...

Over 50 Anti-Muslim Incidents Reported in France After Charlie Hebdo Attack
International Business Times, India Edition - ?Jan 13, 2015?
Attacks on mosques in France were reported within hours of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack, wherein two gunmen stormed into the satirical newspaper's office in Paris and shot down the editor, cartoonists and even police officers. Grenades were reportedly ...

Europe's Muslims feel heat of backlash after Paris terror
Philly.com - ?22 hours ago?
TellMAMA, a British group that tracks anti-Muslim attacks, reported 50-60 cases of specific online threats to individuals over the weekend. "The sheer volume is unbelievable," said the organization's director, Fiyaz Mughal, who fears virtual assaults could spur ...

Europe's Muslims Suffer Attacks, Alienation, And Flying Pig Heads In Wake Of ...
The Inquisitr - ?Jan 13, 2015?
The head of the National Observatory Against Islamophobia, Abdallah Zekri, reports that 26 places of worship around France have suffered attacks since last week. Firebombs, gunshots, and pig heads were used to send anti-Muslim messages, with a mosque .

France: Over 50 anti-Muslim Incidents Reported After Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Morocco World News - ?Jan 13, 2015?
Rabat – According to the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), more than 50 anti-Muslim incidents have been reported across France in less than a week since the terrorist attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The CCIF, a monitoring body ...

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - abna.ir - ?Jan 13, 2015?
More than 50 anti-Muslim incidents have happened across France – including shootings – in less than a week since the deadly attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, according to the nation's Muslim community, which is calling for heightened security.

You really need me to keep going?

[azurnoir]

14. and links please that's 11 you claimed dozens also you left out the search paramenters I used one

also is CNN or any other major western news agency running any televised reports of this

[oberliner]

39. It's not that slow of a morning

I am not going to sit and cut and paste links for you.

You are on your own to find out what CNN and other news agencies are showing on TV.

[azurnoir]

42. That's already been posted CNN ran something in the wee hours

I didn't watch BBC news this morning so I really don't know about that one

[leftynyc]

36. Don't bother

Poster was trying to make a point that entirely backfired. Now just looking to move the goalposts. Now you'd just be wasting your time.

[azurnoir]

41. Nope not really if you look at the links none are from what would be called major M$M

most are from ME papers and 2 are from the same publication

[joeglow3]

43. Bullshit.

I did a simple search for "anti Muslim attacks France" and two of the first three were Huffington Post and New York Times". Just admit you were wrong and move one..

Edit to add the one from CNN, since you seem especially interested in their coverage:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/13/europe/france-anti-muslim-threats/index.html

[countryjake]

20. It was reported briefly on CNN International night before last...

Of course, CNN International only comes on here in the middle of the night.

They said that in the week since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher Grocery Store there had been at least 15 separate incidents of violence aimed at Muslim targets, in Paris and around France. They showed footage of a restaurant that had been destroyed by a firebomb and talked about the mosque which had grenades thrown at it. And they mentioned that anti-Muslim graffiti had begun springing up with much more frequency, with tags like "Outsiders" and other such rot...really frightening and nasty stuff.

It is sad, that this barely makes the mainstream news and also that the right-wingers are jumping on this opportunity to go after any Muslims and immigrants that they've long hated, before the massacres in Paris ever happened.

[azurnoir]

21. I agree it is sad I was given 11 links mostly from ME news services 2 from the same one in fact

but in the West it seems almost meh

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Disgusting.

Hopefully, no one will call it "blowback."

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that the troops would be assigned to protect “synagogues, Jewish schools but also mosques, because a number of these have come under attack in recent days.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/terrorism-security/2015/0112/France-ramps-up-security-across-nation-warns-of-high-risk-of-more-attacks

Muslims are not to blame for the actions of the murders.

[Rhinodawg]

10. Double Ditto.

find whoever did this and throw away the key.

[Depaysement]

6. Revenge of the fools

Make sure you target as many innocent people as possible. "They" have to pay.

[Martin Eden]

27. They are tools of the terrorists

ISIS is very pleased.

[Depaysement]

32. Indeed

Probably the strategic reason Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher were targeted.

[HappyMe]

34. I agree.

This plays right into their hands.

[HappyMe]

7. Yeah, because more violence is always the way to go.

They need to protect mosques like they protect the synagogues and schools.

[oberliner]

11. Seems like a lot of trouble to get a pigs head to throw at a mosque

What a weird thing for a person to do.

[azurnoir]

17. Just weird interesting

I guess it all depends because here you seem to equate a pigs head placed in the kosher section of a woolworths in South Africa to a death threat on a restaurant in the US for serving Palestinian food

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=86798

[Laughing Mirror]

48. Honestly, the very idea ...

Filming the scandalous film about Mohamed

"You're sure Mohamed had sexual relations with a pig's head?"
"I don't have the means to pay for a 9-year old whore, buddy."

[oberliner]

49. I don't get it

What is that cartoon supposed to be saying?

[Pooka Fey]

12. Is your intent to state openly that the French government and society condones this?

[Violet_Crumble]

15. No. My intent is to post an article I found about attacks from extremists n/t

[Pooka Fey]

19. Your intent is hammer home your agenda, and I question your motives

I've lived in France for 10 years and my husband is French. I have skin in this game.

[Violet_Crumble]

23. Oh, was yr 'was yr intent..?' question a trick one?

See, I thought it was a pretty weird question, but I told you what my intent was. If you want to invent something else, I can't stop you, but it's just sort of weird, that's all.

Have you been making the same accusations in other threads I've seen about anti-Semitic attacks in France? If not, I'd like to know what the difference is...

btw, a few months ago I posted about attacks on Muslims in Australia. I've lived in Australia all my life, and my partner is Australian. So I'm not seeing how you arrive at the assumption you did...

[Pooka Fey]

25. Whats the difference between Jan 7th-9th Charlie Hebdo attack and pigs heads getting thrown into

Mosques? Really? What's the difference?

Or are you going to take 12 dead innocent people out of the discussion?

If I seem emotional about this terrorist attack, maybe it is because I still lived in the USA on 9/11. If people were throwing around the kind of hate (yes it's hate) against Americans in 2001 that I'm seeing throw around about the French now in 2015 I would have been pissed. Luckily in 2001 I was spared that.

[Violet_Crumble]

26. Don't forget the firebombing. The common denominator is hate...

I'm totally at a loss as to how you could see one article about extremists attacking French Muslims as hating on France. The only hate I have is for extremists of any stripe who attack innocent people...

[Pooka Fey]

30. The level of French Bashing I've seen on DU since Sat Jan 10th

Last edited Thu Jan 15, 2015, 09:49 AM - Edit history (1)

This is a brief summary of the dozens of articles I've seen posted on DU since Sat - 24 hours after the Kosher grocery store attack, while the blood was still fresh on the sidewalks of Paris. Like I said, I live here and my husband is French. We are still mourning our dead.

1. France is a deeply racist society.

2. Free Speech in France is for Whitey only, otherwise the society would allow the Burka.

3. If France didn't want the incite terrorist attacks, they shouldn't have allowed cartoons of Mohammed

4. French secularism is harassment against their Muslim citizens who have lost freedoms to wear headscarves during the school day while enjoying their free public education. We don't care that they can put on their headscarves when they go home.

5. We don't care about the bloody Catholic vs Protestant wars in France that are the basis of public Secularism in France since King Henry IV.

6. We Anglos (Anglo Brit Anglo American Anglo Australian), knowing absolutely NOTHING about France's 2000 year history, and not being able to understand the French language, are uniquely qualified to school France on how they should better run their society. (I'm talking about Noam Chomsky's Burka comments - see n° 4 & n°5)

7. We Anglos deplore that the French are not afraid of drawing cartoon Pee-Pee parts. What a depraved pornographic culture!

8. France is only going to defend Whitey and the Jews from the terrorist attack blowback, because we at DU know they are dirty racists.

9. European leaders who came to Paris in support of the country are full of shit and hypocrites, because they only stood to have their photo taken and didn't plunge into the 4 MILLION plus crowds so congested that people couldn't even move. European leaders have failed to prove their creds to DU.

10. Basic always-good-for-a-laugh surrender monkey jokes (from Bill Maher clip)

[Violet_Crumble]

33. I've seen some stupid stuff posted about France, but mine wasn't....

I've been following the posts of a French DUer who picked up someone on the free speech thing. As someone who lives in a country that's far more similar to France than the US when it comes to not having freedom of speech enshrined in the constitution etc, and who also only a month ago was told by an American (over at DI) that they knew the mood of the public here because he spent an evening at a pub in Melbourne many years ago, has aa fair bit of admiration for that French DUer and their patience, patience being a trait I have a limited supply of...

[Pooka Fey]

38. OK, si tu le dis

[Violet_Crumble]

40. If I say so? Okay, explain how posting that article was bashing France? n/t

[Pooka Fey]

45. Violet, we are STILL GRIEVING in France, normal when only 5 days have passed

Your OP was not false, it was true. AND

Your OP reaped a reaction from a French resident with a French spouse, who noticed that, somehow, you forgot to mention that France doesn't condone these acts.

France would like to control all its crazies, but it can't.

This is a discussion board. You post. DU discusses.

[Depaysement]

35. You have the right message

But you are attacking the wrong messenger.

[Pooka Fey]

37. Fair enough

[HappyMe]

24. I don't believe anybody would blame ALL of France for this.

I just blame those who do this kind of stupidity.

[Capt. Obvious]

46. #NotAllFrench

[HappyMe]

47. Ah yes, the ubiquitous hash tag!

Able to right wrongs and give comfort in times of trouble.

[countryjake]

28. You are completely wrongheaded if you believe that Violet has such an agenda.

Accusing anyone of trying to whip up anti-French sentiment on DU, simply because they posted an article containing news that is actually quite pertinent to the massacre of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, is just plain wrong.

Accusing her of such a thing is simply ridiculous. I sympathize with you about much of the crap I've seen posted here since last week, and yes, lots of it has been Anti-French, but you're barking up the wrong tree to blast Violet for that.

[rpannier]

29. How you made that leap in (something not akin to logic)

is amazing

Please feel free to expand on your accusation so that it may make sense to the rest of the world

[cali]

16. I'm not sure what led you to think that, but knowing Violet a bit

I'm quite sure that wasn't her intent.

[Pooka Fey]

22. OK

[trusty elf]

18. That's offal.

Sorry. Joking aside, the jerks who did this are no better than the nazi brownshirts. Ain't brotherly love grand?

[Recursion]

31. Disgusting behavior (nt)

[Jefferson23]

44. More circles completed..very sad. n/t