ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AGENDA OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES IN EUROPE

USPA NEWS - January 2015, a turning point for FRANCE. The attacks committed at CHARLIE HEBDO in PARIS provoked an intense emotion all over the country. Immediately after, Reprisals followed against the muslim community. It touched not only FRANCE but EUROPE and USA.... The clash of civilization was "assumed".

According to CCIF, the year 2014 was marked by numerous violations of the freedom of citizens of the Muslim faith. Anti-Muslims racism is expressed but denounced because it occurs in all fields of the society : professional, political, media, academic, literary... It was identified 33 attacks against mosques. One of them was an attack with an incendiary device , another with a firearm. Children being between traumatism and stigmatisation. Muslim women being the target of all kinds of violence. A murder was committed on January 15, in Beaucet, 47 years old father was stabbed 17 times to death in this home in front of his wife and 6 month old baby. The murderer hurled islamophobiac insults, visibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Repeated, inopportune summonses, threats and sanctions against students for wearing a skirt considered too long, a tunic considered too baggy or having a prayer callus on forehead. Refusing to let veiled mothers accompany their children on school trips. Denying access to state-sponsored vocational training. Incitating young children to consume meat including pork at times, in the school cafetaria against the wishes of the parents.

The visibility of Islam, in EUROPE is perceived as an act of militancy against the state which subsequently reduces the sympathy given to the victims. This type of perception is systematically demonstrated via opinion polls and public surveys. There should be a political and judiciary price to pay for everyone who incites hatred and hostility towards muslims, which is rarely the case. Those last years, was a significant growth of journalist and political figures instrumentalizing islamophobia to position themselves politicaly.

What is asked by Muslims is a stronger evolution of the discourse and acts because was witnessed a normalization of the islamophobic discourse from the politics. Islamophobia not bound to a particular political party but being present under various ideological forms. It primary affects hijabi muslim women whose rights to participate in the public space are taken away.