The Islamophobic shouts at the Cornellà-El Prat stadium during the match between Egypt and Spain have gone around the world and are a very worrying exponent of the level of disinhibition of the extreme right everywhere. The case is especially regrettable because the best player of the Spanish national team and probably of the world is a Catalan of Muslim religion named Lamine Yamal, raised in the Rocafonda neighborhood of Mataró. The Barça star has sent a forceful message through social networks and has branded the "racists" and "ignorant" the scoundrels who on Tuesday chanted all sorts of insults, including to Pedro Sánchez, at the Espanyol stadium.

Beyond the embarrassment, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) faces a sanction from FIFA after the Islamophobic chants at the friendly match against Egypt in Cornellà-El Prat. The punishment ranges from a match for the senior team "with a limited number of spectators" and "a fine of at least 20,000 Swiss francs (21,600 euros)," according to regulations in cases of discriminatory chants in the stands. And it could even mean prohibiting "la roja" from playing at Espanyol's stadium again.

Lamine Yamal has broken his silence over the Islamophobic chants this Tuesday at Cornellà-El Prat, on the occasion of a friendly between Spain and Egypt, with a publication on Instagram. "I know [the chants] were for the opposing team [Egypt], but as a Muslim person it is still a lack of respect and something intolerable [...]. To those who sing these things: using religion as a mockery leaves you as ignorant and racist people," wrote the Barça star and the main star of Luis de la Fuente's team. The footballer left the Espanyol stadium with his head down and without greeting the local fans.

She says she was a quiet child, but now, at 24, no one can silence her. Chayma Rachdi Mennana, born in the La Mina neighborhood, is the daughter of a Moroccan couple and has made the defense of diversity and human rights a personal and collective struggle, to the point of working professionally in various organizations. Currently, she is a technician for the Prometeus project, which promotes equal opportunities for teenagers from vulnerable neighborhoods to pursue higher education. She herself was one of those students they supported and motivated until she reached the humanities.

The leader of the far-right Catalan independence movement, Sílvia Orriols, once again displayed her Islamophobia this Tuesday, a cornerstone of her political project, as she herself claims. In an interview with Catalunya Ràdio, the head of Aliança Catalana (AC) defended banning the Quran, the holy text of Muslims, arguing that "what it says is barbaric." She didn't stop there: "The Bible also contains phrases taken completely out of context, but the beauty of it is that we Christians know how to contextualize and update them; we don't interpret them literally," she said, in a direct attack on the capabilities of Muslims. "Their own religion says so; the Quran is not open to interpretation," she added, although this premise only applies to certain branches of Islam. The mayor of Ripoll also began the interview by confessing that she lives with "great hope." the US and Israeli attack on Iran"One of the most terrifying regimes in the world could fall," celebrated the woman who, on other occasions, has had no problem expressing her support for Donald Trump. In this regard, she denounced the opposition to the war of Spanish President Pedro Sánchez, whom she criticized for "playing at ambiguity and mediocrity" and for "not being able to stand up for human rights." The far-right leader was referring to the rights of the Iranian population, long repressed by the authorities in Tehran, but she omitted the massacres of the same population that are being caused by the bombs coming from Washington and Tel Aviv.

The ARA (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance) has returned to the town of Torre Pacheco, in the province of Murcia, six months after the far right launched a campaign against Moroccan immigrants, incidents that marked a turning point in the xenophobic agenda in Spain. "There are no too many immigrants, there are too many racists," read a banner displayed a few days ago by Moroccan farmworkers during a labor protest in the town. Life in this town, as in so many others, is marked by segregation: locals and foreigners socialize in separate spaces. There is little interaction. The integration work carried out by schools and some associations is insufficient. Distance and mistrust persist, especially regarding the Muslim population: Islamophobia has taken root. The far right promotes it unfiltered on social media and is profiting from it, both in Spain and Catalonia, as well as in other parts of Europe. In fact, despite the diversity within the far right (for example, on gender issues), Islamophobia is the element that all continental far-right groups have in common.

1714 is a well-established and significant date in the history of Catalonia. A thousand years earlier, in 714, it should also be remembered as a milestone: it is when Berber and Arab Muslims completed the conquest of the entire Iberian Peninsula in what is now Catalan lands (only Galician, Basque, and some Pyrenean territories remained untouched). The invaders then continued north: Narbonne (720), Toulouse (721), and Carcassonne and Nîmes (725). In present-day Catalonia, Girona and Barcelona offered no resistance, but Tarragona did, and was destroyed and abandoned, as did Badalona, ​​Mataró, Terrassa, and possibly Empúries. All of these areas became part of Al-Andalus—there is much debate about the correct spelling—within the Islamic Umayyad Empire, governed from the city of Damascus, now in Syria.

After entering the Catalan Parliament and with an eye on the municipal elections, Aliança Catalana has been creating regional executive committees. All of them have chat groups with the leaders and members of the region. There, they discuss current political events and organize the weekend information booths. The far-right pro-independence party also has an unofficial one.

Fatima Ouassak was born in Morocco, but moved to France when she was just one year old. A political scientist and activist, she presents the essay The power of mothers, written out of anger at racism and Islamophobia, and fear of the consequences this can have for their children. It defends the power mothers have if they are able to organize politically.

Leila Nachawati Riego, a journalist and writer from Galicia, is an active defender of human rights. Her father is Syrian and her mother is Galician. She has developed her career between two worlds, and as such, she is a voice that must be heard. She is part of the Association for the Progress of Communications, an international human rights network that promotes social justice through information and communication technologies. She also teaches courses on violence and the media at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

The Civil Guard arrested on Monday in Mataró director of the supremacist and xenophobic group Deport Them Now for his alleged role as instigator of the riots and racist "hunts" that have taken place in recent days in the Murcia town of Torre Pacheco. According to sources from the Ministry of the Interior who spoke to Efe, the arrested man is a 28-year-old man who lived in Barcelona and who last January obtained authorization to work as a private bodyguard.

The remains of the fire that devastated the new mosque in Piera early Saturday morning are clearly visible from the outside. Police tape surrounds the new building next to the sign for the construction work. 48 hours have passed since the incident, and the police investigation has not yet determined whether it was a premeditated attack or an accident. However, this Monday, Mayor Carme González, of the PSC (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), met with representatives of the Muslim community to strengthen the image of unity in the town of Anoia.

Intense negotiations, last-minute back-and-forth, and arriving at the Parliament registry 13 minutes late. This Wednesday, the Catalan Alliance and Vox were negotiating against the clock on a motion by Silvia Orriols' group against the Islamic veil. It was voted on this Thursday in the ParliamentA proposal that has not been approved—Juntos, ERC, PSC, Comuns, and the CUP have rejected it—but which has allowed for a glimpse into the shared positions of the two far-right groups in the chamber. In fact, according to various sources consulted by ARA, a dynamic of negotiation has been established between them.

Two women, a child and a man have been killed and another child injured in a "premeditated" hit-and-run in southern Ontario, Canada. The events took place on Sunday and, according to police, the driver, a 20-year-old man who was arrested after fleeing the scene, acted in a "premeditated and planned manner, motivated by hatred". Paul Waight, responsible for the investigation, has revealed that "there is no previously known link between the suspect and the victims" and that they believe "they were attacked because they were Muslims". The suspect was wearing a bulletproof vest at the time of his arrest. Evidence is being gathered to charge him with terrorism.