An unpleasant suprise awaited the Charef family when they woke up on Sunday morning. They found Nazi graffiti on the walls of their house at Pont-du-Château, in the Puy-de-Dôme department. Swastikas and Celtic crosses had been drawn on the wall. These are signs regularly used by far-right and Islamophobic groups.

Right-wing bloggers have criticised DC Comics’ newly introduced Muslim superhero.

First appearing in the pages of Detective Comics Annual #12, Nightrunner is a 22-year-old Muslim Algerian recruited by Bruce Wayne to be the Batman of Paris, reportsRobot 6.

The situation is just as bad or even worse in America as recent events revealed. The hysteria and outpouring of hate for Islam and Muslims had never been more evident than by the incidence of Qur’an burning and the debacle over the building of a Muslim community center near Ground Zero.