UPDATE 2: (13 January 2015)

There were 60 incidents of Islamophobic attacks and threats in France in the six days after the 7 January 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, according to a 13 January report by the Associated Press.

The National Observatory Against Islamophobia has documented

26 attacks on places of worship around France with firebombs, grenades, gunshots, or pig heads and

34 threats or insults.

TellMAMA, a UK-based organization that monitors racist, anti-Muslim attacks, also reported 50-60 cases of online threats during the weekend.

AP notes that the Paris shootings are fanning racist, neo-fascist flames in Europe.

The rising far-right in France and other European countries has been driven by an anti-immigration, anti-Islam message. National Front leader Marine Le Pen seized upon the Charlie Hebdo attack just hours after it happened, suggesting it was a vindication of her party’s xenophobic stance. Extreme-right groups across Europe have increasingly been striking a chord with ordinary citizens voicing fears their culture is being uprooted by an alien civilization. The fledgling German group that calls itself Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA, drew its largest crowd ever Monday night — a reported 40,000 — at its weekly rally in Dresden, after organizers declared it a tribute to the victims of the French attacks.

UPDATE 1: (9 January 2015)

As of 9 January 2015 at 6:30pm GMT, there were 15 anti-Muslim hate crimes and/or terrorist attacks in France, all presumably in response to the the Charlie Hebdo shooting. In addition to the attacks outline below, these include:

four gunshots near the entrance of a mosque in Saint-Juéry, in southern France,



the assault of a 17-year-old of North-African descent by a gang of racists,



an arson attack on a mosque in Aix-les-Bains in southeastern France,



the placing of a boar’s head and entrails outside a prayer room in Corte, Corsica with a note threatening “next time it will be one of your heads,” and



five acts of anti-Muslim vandalism.

(8 January 2015)

In response to the 7 January 2015 killing of at least 12 at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French publication with a history of racist, anti-Muslim caricatures, French anti-Muslim terrorists have appeared to engage in acts of violent revenge on completely uninvolved Muslim civilians.

On the night of 7 January and the morning of 8 January, there were several shootings and bombings of mosques and prayer rooms in France. There appear to be no injuries.

In Villefranche-sur-Saône, in eastern France, there was a bombing of a kebab stand right next to a mosque.

In Le Mans, in north-central France, two or three grenades were thrown into a mosque. Only one exploded. It was also shot at least once.

In Port-la-Nouvelle, in southern France, a Muslim prayer room was shot at least twice, one hour after the end of prayer.

In Poitiers, in central France, a mosque was defaced with hateful graffiti calling for “Mort aux Arabes” (“Death to Arabs”).

Un tag "mort aux arabes" tracé cette nuit sur le portail de la mosquée de #Poitiers: un suspect interpellé. pic.twitter.com/0ixWrNJ8Ku — faitsdivers86 (@NRCP_POITIERS) January 8, 2015

If Islamophobia is purportedly not a form of racism, as its apologists claim, why was “Death to Arabs” spray painted on a French mosque?

Racist Islamophobia is rampant in France—and throughout the world—and anti-Muslim ‪terrorism‬ is out of control.

BREAKING: In France - 2 mosques were bombed, - a prayer room was shot up, - "Death to Arabs" spraypainted on a mosque http://t.co/hKAGLMBhGP — Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 8, 2015

