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Nation in the dock for Islamaphobia

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

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