Zineb El Rhazoui, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Zineb El Rhazoui

French journalist

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1982

Place of Birth: Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

Profession: journalist

Nationality: France, Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Zineb El Rhazoui (born 1982) is a Moroccan-born French journalist.
She was a columnist for Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo from 2011 to 2017.
She was in Morocco during the Charlie Hebdo massacre on 7 January 2015. She was the magazine's religion expert and a passionate critic of Islam.
Since the killings, she has become a prominent secularist and human rights campaigner, speaking publicly around the world about Islam and free speech.
She left Charlie Hebdo on January 3, 2017, citing the magazine's adoption of an "editorial line demanded by Islamists" as one of the reasons for her departure. Rhazoui has criticized the term "Islamophobia" and claims it first appeared in Iran "a few years ago, as a way of silencing critics of that country's government".
However, the word is attested in French as early as 1910 in Alain Quellien's book La Politique musulmane dans l’Afrique occidentale française.
According to sociologists Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed, the term does not even exist in Farsi.