French Interior Ministry Records 2025 Anti-Religious Acts
In a post published on November 5, 2026, the social media account @basicoptimism stated that the West is the most tolerant civilization the world has ever produced. According to the post, Muslims in Europe and America have the freedom to build mosques, run for political office, win democratic elections, and openly criticize the government that protects their right to pray. The account contrasted these freedoms with the situation in Saudi Arabia, noting that this degree of religious and political freedom is far more than Christians are permitted to experience or practice in Saudi Arabia.
Turning to specific government figures on religious hostility, the post reported that France’s Interior Ministry recorded 1,320 antisemitic acts, 843 anti-Christian acts, and 326 anti-Muslim acts in 2025. Although Jews make up less than 1% of the French population, the account noted that they were the target of more than half of all anti-religious attacks in the country. The author emphasized that every one of those attacks deserves condemnation, explicitly including anti-Muslim acts, which the post noted rose sharply last year.
French Government Report on the Muslim Brotherhood
Reflecting on these trends, the author asserted that if the West deserves one criticism, it is that it has been far too tolerant of the intolerant and far too slow to defend the freedoms that made it great. According to the post, that tolerance is exactly why the accusation of “Islamophobia” works so effectively against Western societies.
The post highlighted a French government report describing how the Muslim Brotherhood uses the charge of Islamophobia to paint secular laws as state racism. As described in the report cited by @basicoptimism, the Muslim Brotherhood employs this tactic so that anyone who questions an ideology ends up treated as a bigot. The author characterized this situation as a strange kind of Islamophobia, observing that it allows individuals to build mosques and elects them to positions such as mayor or senators. In closing, the author stated that Basic Optimism was created to bring common sense back to the West.