ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT

EUROPEAN ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT 2015
CHRONOLOGY
7 January
• Terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo carried out by Daesh/ISIL
8 January
• President Rajoy declares that in Spain there is no risk of Islamophobia
15 January
• Publication of a report presented by the Provincial Brigade of Information of
Seville on how to react to Muslim suspects
2 February:
• Signature of the Antiterrorist Pact between the Partido Popular (PP) and the
Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)
17 February
• Over 1,200 immigrants die in the Mediterranean Sea in one week
22 March
• Celebration of local elections in Andalusia
26 March
• Passing the Law of Citizen Security (Gag rule)
April and May
• The PP (Partido Popular) distributes Islamophobic pamphlets and alerts against
the Islamisation of Catalonia on the occasion of the local elections
8 April
The Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fernández Díaz, relates jihadism and the Catalonian
Independence movement; in 2014 he had issued similar statements
24 May
• Celebration of the Spanish local elections
11 June
• Passing of a law that grants the Spanish nationality to the descendants of the
Sephardic Jews expelled from the country in 1942
July
• 100 teachers from ten different countries send a statement to the Diocese of
Cordoba and the Department of Culture of the Regional Government of Andalusia
demanding the respect of the status of the mosque/cathedral of Cordoba
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