February 8, 2010
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Wire Service: AP
Swastikas and racial slurs have been painted on the walls of a mosque in the town of Saint-Etienne, says a prominent French Muslim group.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith says the vandalism took place on Monday morning at the mosque in the Loire region, in the latest example of rising Islamophobia.
The Council says such vandalism has multiplied in France "in a very worrisome way" and repeated a demand for the government to create a parliamentary panel to study rising Islamophobia.