{"id":969,"date":"2015-05-10T06:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/969-religious-profiling-of-muslim-children-causes-outcry-in-france\/"},"modified":"2015-05-10T06:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T06:03:53","slug":"religious-profiling-of-muslim-children-causes-outcry-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/969-religious-profiling-of-muslim-children-causes-outcry-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious profiling of Muslim children causes outcry in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">A French mayor backed by the far-right Front National has been accused of racism after using the names of schoolchildren in his town to decide how many were Muslim<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A French mayor backed by the far-right Front National has been accused of racism after using the names of schoolchildren in his town to decide how many were Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Under France\u2019s strict secularism laws, the government does not keep statistics on people\u2019s religion or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reported on that Robert Menard, the mayor of B\u00e9ziers in the southern region of Languedoc-Roussillon, said in a live TV broadcast that his administration had listed the school kids\u2019 names to see how many were Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the incident, Prime Minister Manuel Valls denounced the move, saying, &#8220;Shame on the mayor of B\u00e9ziers. 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