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The severed heads of two pigs have reportedly been found in a pool of blood outside a French mosque, which left Muslims claiming that 'Islamophobia' is on the rise in the country. The heads were attached to two pillars at the entrance of the Salam Mosque in Montauban, near Toulouse in France . According to the Daily Mail, as pigs are considered unclean by Muslims, who are forbidden from eating them, Muslim leaders have condemned the act, while the mayor of Montauban has branded the incident an 'odious and blasphemous act towards the Muslim community'. Muslim leaders said this kind of vandalism was especially shocking, because it happened during the holy month of Ramadan. "This was meant to dirty this place of prayer," Abdallah Zekri, a Muslim leader based in Nimes , said. It was the first such incident in Montauban, a town with a population of around 56,000, the paper said. The discovery of the pigs' heads came a day after officials in the northern Paris suburb of Gennevilliers reinstated four summer camp counsellors who had been suspended for Ramadan fasting, it added.

'Islamophobia' fears after 'pig heads in blood pool' found outside French mosque