"Islamophobia" .. The great concern for the Muslims of France

Hisham Abu Mariam - Paris

As a whole, Fatima Abrakan has been attending the annual meeting of the Muslims of France with her small family in the Parisian suburb, despite the distance, where she struggled to travel and cut about 700 km, coming from the city of Montpellier in southern France.

Fatima, a veiled young woman who has not completed her fourth contract and is working as a nurse and activist with the Muslim community in her city since she was a university student, says the meeting is an occasion to recall the achievements of Islamic organizations over a year. Islamic intellectual figures in France.

The French young woman of Moroccan origin told Al Jazeera Net that most of what she fears is the future of her seven-year-old daughter, who is growing up in a country that provides her with all the necessities of a decent life. But the margin of freedom of religion is narrowing to Muslims. Hate speech in the French media, as she put it.

Fatima pointed out that she had noticed increased fear among Muslim women, especially veiled women, after repeated attacks by extremist right-wing groups in recent times on Muslims and mosques in a number of French cities.

Fatima said the idea of ​​leaving France for her country of origin, Morocco or stability in Britain, had begun to take place because of the climate of hatred against Muslims that had spread horribly in France.

The spirit of responsibility
In one of the seminars attended by Al Jazeera Net, Dr. Basma Moughrabi, a human rights activist and lawyer at the Paris Court, appealed to Muslims not to be silent or to disregard all the acts of racism they face.

"Politicians must not be trusted to defend us, we are Muslims, but all the good laws that exist in the French Constitution that combat discrimination and racism in our favor must be exploited," the lawyer said.

"It is time for the Muslims of France to act responsibly by first resorting to justice by bringing thousands of cases before the courts, if necessary, against all persons or media organizations that allow inflammatory speech to Muslims.

Alliance formation
In the context, the human rights activist and former director of the anti-Islam coalition, Marwan Mohammed, strongly criticized Muslims' disregard for the seriousness of their hate speech.

Marwan Mohamed pointed out that a number of political parties are using the discourse of Islamophobia as an electoral card or to cover up their failure to provide solutions to the social and economic problems in which France is floundering, which Muslims should be aware of and stand for as a discrimination and hatred towards them.

"We have to differentiate between racists in France and non-racial France, which protects all its citizens without discrimination," said the head of the Paris-based group of French Muslims.

The Islamic leader said in a statement to the island Net, that the Muslims of France to strengthen their alliance and form a front with those who see good in their presence in France and not a threat to them, and contribute to the development and prosperity of French society.

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Ammar Lasfar, president of the Union of French Muslims, the organizer of the annual meeting of the Muslims of France, said that the Islamic presence in France had become a reality, and the love of the Muslims for their country France is also a reality, which is rejected and questioned by a number of advocates of hatred.

He called for zero in a statement to Al Jazeera Net to unite efforts between various Islamic organizations to fight Islamophobia and work to enact a law criminalizing.

The annual meeting of the Muslims of France chose the theme "Towards a future for the Muslims of France" in its 36th session, organized by the Union of French Muslims, which includes more than 300 associations and Islamic organizations.

The meeting is the largest Islamic gathering of its kind in Europe, where about 200,000 visitors are scheduled to attend the Sandonne region in the Paris suburb, which will end on Monday evening.