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Outrage in France as Muslim son of police officers roughed up for ‘un-Islamic’ behavior after he attended Christmas party
27 Dec 2020 16:17
FILE PHOTO. © AFP / Patrick Hertzog
A young Muslim was attacked by fellow Muslims after he posted photos online of a Christmas party he had attended. The incident has prompted top French officials to condemn Islamic “separatism” and to pledge to keep fighting it.
The incident, which occurred in the northeastern city of Belfort, was reported by local media on Saturday. The 20-year-old victim is the son of law enforcement officers.
Shortly after posting the photos of the party, he was threatened by an acquaintance who was also Muslim – hardline followers of Islam consider partaking in the festivities of another religion to be wholly inappropriate.
He blasted the young man as a “dirty son of white, son of a snake, son of police” and promised to “show” him what a “real Arab” should be. Although the tone of the conversation was far from friendly, the young man agreed to meet his accuser in person to settle their differences.
A real Arab would show up with four friends...
The outraged hardliner showed up flanked by four other man, who beat up the 20-year-old and threatened him with further violence if he reported the incident to the police. Despite the intimidation, the young man filed a complaint against his attackers, and his mother has vowed to pursue the suspects. “He walked into an ambush,” she was cited by local media as saying.
This incident must not remain without consequences.
These are sectarian and racist behaviors.
This is unacceptable in the 21st century.
Everyone is free to celebrate what they want and as they wish.
Seriously? Do you know nothing about Islam?
The incident did not escape the notice of France’s top officials. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed that the attack had taken place and an investigation had been launched. Darmanin condemned the anti-police sentiment the suspects had apparently shown and called Islamist “separatism” unacceptable.
“In Belfort, a young man was assaulted because he celebrated Christmas and was not a ‘good Arab’. ‘Aggravating’ circumstance: being the son of police officers,” the minister wrote on Twitter late on Saturday.
There’s no place for separatism in our country,
no place for racism – wherever it comes from.
In recent months, France has suffered a spate of terrorist attacks by Islamist radicals, including the gruesome beheading of a teacher outside Paris. The teacher was targeted by a young Muslim after he showed his class the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. While depiction of the Prophet is considered blasphemous in Islam, the provocative cartoons are considered particularly offensive by many Muslims.
In the wake of the attack, senior French officials, including President Emmanuel Macron, vowed to fight hardline Islamists by any means necessary and to weed out extreme ideology from the country. Macron’s tough response has caused diplomatic rows with a number of Muslim-majority nations, and protests against the president.
Macron's position was obvious and inevitable years ago. I must say, I am surprised that he reached that position as quickly as he did.
Prominent Saudi women’s rights activist sentenced to
nearly 6 years under terrorism laws
28 Dec 2020 14:21
FILE PHOTO. A protest in support of jailed Saudi women's rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, in Paris, France. ©REUTERS / Benoit Tessier
Loujain al-Hathloul, a renowned Saudi advocate of women’s rights, has been sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, local media have reported. However, an early release is also reportedly possible for her in February.
The 31-year-old, who rose to prominence in 2013 while campaigning for making driving licenses available to women in Saudi Arabia, has been in custody since March 2018, when she was arrested at Riyadh’s request in the United Arab Emirates.
In June 2018, women were permitted to drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia. It was the only country where it was forbidden.
Hathloul’s defenders say she was subjected to humiliating treatment, sexual assault and torture while in Saudi custody. At least twice in 2020 she was reported by family as going on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of her detention. Riyadh denies the allegations of having abused its prisoner.
Last month, Hathloul’s case was transferred from a regular criminal court to a special terrorism court.
The activist was one of at least a dozen like-minded individuals arrested by Saudi Arabia in 2018.
Of the arrested activists, some have been released while their prosecutions proceed. Nassimah al-Saadah was sentenced to five years in prison with two suspended in late November, according to reports.
Saudi Arabia, a major oil producer, is a key US ally in the Middle East and a major buyer of US-made weapons. Critics say Washington tends to turn a blind eye on Riyadh’s violations of human rights, both at home and abroad, as long as American strategic interests are observed.
Kuwait: Son arrested for throwing mother and father out of family home
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Reason was parents refusal to give him money to buy drugs
Published: December 28, 2020, 14:04
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Staff Writer, Gulf News
Dubai: A Kuwaiti has been arrested and put behind bars at the Salwa Police Station for expelling his parents and the family servant from their home, despite the harsh cold weather, Al Anba daily reported on Monday.
The arrest came when the father, who is believed to be in his 60s, called the Operations Room of the Ministry of Interior and complained his son had put him, his wife, and his servant out of the house.
When police went to the house and arrested the man, they discovered he was under the influence of drugs. A report by the Forensics will determine what drugs he has consuming.
The father stated the reason for his son’s actions was his refusal to give money to buy narcotics.
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