France’s Multicultural Challenge
Source: Charged Affair By Sheila Archambault, 20th May 2019 French identity is so deeply linked to its colonial past that there is a fear of a reversal, where there is […]
Defeating calls for terrorism, extremism online
May 16,2019 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah attended a timely meeting on Wednesday on the Christchurch Call to Action to Eliminate Terrorism and Violent Extremist Content Online, hosted […]
King of Jordan calls for unifying efforts to confront threats of extremism, hate speech
Participants in ‘Christchurch Call to Action’ commend His Majesty’s anti-terror efforts By JT – May 16,2019 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday participated in the high-level […]
Notre Dame’s restoration is a chance to make a symbolic stand against the new rise of religious hatred
Notre Dame is a metaphor of sublime beauty, of course, but also of the ugliness of human bigotry Alexander Seale In the crypt of Notre Dame cathedral, there is a […]
France separates church and state. So who’s responsible for Notre Dame?
Source: The Washington Post By Emily Tamkin April 18 French President Emmanuel Macron wants Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral, devastated in a fire on Monday, repaired in five years. But as crews […]
The First Global Terrorists Were Anarchists in the 1890s
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By Maya Jasanoff April 29, 2016 The funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditAlamy ImageThe funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditCreditAlamy CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It was past dark on a February afternoon in 1894 when a keeper at Greenwich […]
France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
Source: The Atlantic By RACHEL DONADIO PARIS—It was the morning after the fire ravaged Notre-Dame, consuming its oak latticework and lead roof, damaging rose windows, toppling its spire. There was a […]
What Will the Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire Mean for the Catholic Imagination?
Source: Vanity Fair BY JOHN CORNWELL The cathedral is at once an icon and a sacred place, and thus the response to Monday’s disaster is a crisis of faith […]
Notre Dame is heartbreaking – but so is France’s looting of black history
I was in the cathedral just before it was evacuated. But I can’t help but think the intense mourning of its destruction serves as a metaphor for where we stand in […]
Foundation-stone laying of mosque in Hauts-de-France
Mansoor Ahmed Mubashir France Correspondance On 31 March 2019, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat France had the opportunity to lay the foundation-stone of a mosque – the first Ahmadi mosque is […]
See the moment Notre Dame’s spire falls
The spire collapses as smoke and flames engulf Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images While the cathedral’s two towers were saved, its spire collapsed in the massive […]
The evolution of the French far-right’s rhetoric on Islam
MAXIME GAUIN Published 15.03.2019 A placard held by a demonstrator at a protest against the Burkini ban on French beaches, outside the French Embassy in London, Aug. 26, 2016. Anti-Islam […]
French Muslims and the Secular State
Source: The Jewish Press By Denis MacEoin {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Islam has a history largely forgotten today: Schools seem largely to ignore or suppress topics related […]
Macron announces crackdown on anti-Semitism in France
Source: BBC News French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures to tackle anti-Semitism, following a spate of attacks. He told Jewish leaders that France would recognise anti-Zionism – the […]
‘Spreading like poison’: flurry of antisemitic acts alarms France
Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris French police are investigating a spate of antisemitic acts in Paris and the surrounding area in the past few days, as the government announced a […]
France and Italy Fighting Over Libyan Oil: Is This Why They Killed Gaddafi?
Source: The African Exponent By Tatenda Gwaambuka France and Italy are fighting over Libyan oil and destroying the country in the process. NATO killed Gaddafi so as to access Libya; […]
US asks nations to repatriate militants as they leave Syria
By AFP – Feb 04,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Civilians fleeing fighting between Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Daesh terrorists in the frontline Syrian village of Baghuz, await to be screened […]
In a quiet French village, a cleric plotted Iran’s revolution
Source: Reuters BY Michaela Cabrera NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France (Reuters) – Forty years ago this month, the man who would go on to lead the Islamic revolution in Iran lived in a […]
Macron holds surprise talks with Egypt’s Sisi, meets top clerics
By AFP – Jan 29,2019 -JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday held a surprise second meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al Sisi after talks […]
France Has Millions of Muslims. Why Does It Import Imams?
Source: New York Times By Kamel Daoud; is an Algerian novelist. State secularism works in funny ways. PARIS — What to do about Islam in France? Considering Islamist terrorist attacks, […]