{"id":59289,"date":"2022-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/02\/02\/islamophobic-attacks-continue-across-france\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"islamophobic-attacks-continue-across-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/2022\/02\/02\/islamophobic-attacks-continue-across-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamophobic attacks continue across France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Islamophobic attacks continue across France with two separate incidents reported last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">A Muslim butcher and grocery store that sells halal products in the southwestern province of Lot-et-Garonne was targeted on Sunday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Setting the store in Bon-Encontre town on fire, arsonists drew two svastika on the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">The town fire brigade reported that the store was completely burnt, but no one was harmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">The public prosecutor initiated an investigation on the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">In the other attack that took place in the southwestern province of Toulouse, a pig head and skin was left in front of an Islamic community center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Speaking to local media, Abdellatif Mellouki, a Muslim community leader, drew attention to rising Islamophobic attacks across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Meanwhile, the European Collective for Struggle against Islamophobia, a non-profit advocacy group, linked the attacks with a TV program named Zone Interdite that particularly focuses on the alleged threat of radical Islamism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamophobic attacks continue across France with two separate incidents reported last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}