France in the dock for Islamaphobia
By Opinion
Iqbal Jassat
France faces a political hot potato if the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agrees to probe complaints about unfair and targeted attacks on Islam and Muslims.
The complaints arise from a carefully co-ordinated campaign by a coalition of human rights and civil society organisations who have petitioned the UNHRC to investigate the Macron government’s discrimination against Muslims.
France stands accused of systematically entrenching Islamophobia by placing the entire Muslim community under the radar on suspicion of being the “other”.
The daring move to invoke the UN charter and find France’s ruthless attacks to be in violation of it, comes in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on the Muslim community by the French state.