France church attack: Priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’
Source: BBC An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The […]
French Attackers Kill Priest in Normandy Church
Source: The Daily Beast. Two hostage-takers armed with knives were killed in France early Tuesday after they captured several people during Mass in a church in the small town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. Police told Reuters that one civilian was killed—an 86-year-old priest who is reported to have had his […]
Kelvin MacKenzie, we’re sick of your toxic propaganda. Fatima Manji is admirable
theguardian: by Ramona Aly — Complaints are pouring in after the Sun’s columnist criticised the headscarf-wearing newsreader. He’s manipulating an already volatile anti-Muslim climate ‘As a British, Asian, Muslim woman who wears a headscarf, it makes me utterly proud to see Manji breaking through stereotypes and glass ceilings to front […]
Attack in Nice Turns Spotlight on City’s Religious Divisions
Source: The New York Times By ALISSA J. RUBIN NICE, France — There is the Nice of popular imagination, the old-world resort dotted with palm trees and cafes that look […]
Nice attack: The struggle to stop radicalisation
Source: BBC France is still struggling to understand what motivated the man who carried out Thurday’s lorry attack in Nice – which left more than 80 people dead. The […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Logic Does Not Explain Nice Attack—Or Jihad
Source: Time BY Bernard-Henri Lévy Lévy is a French author and philosopher Terrorist or psychopath? As if we had to choose one or the other. As if all terrorists were not (and have not always been) psychopaths. As if the Nazi henchmen of the 1920s and ‘30s, the Hitlerian paramilitary squads […]
Why France Has Become the Number One Target for Terror
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul When a truck driver plowed into the throngs of revelers out on the street for Bastille Day in the coastal town of Nice on Thursday night, killing at least 84 people and injuring dozens more, it was the latest in a series of devastating attacks […]
French Politicians Say Nice Attack Might Have Been Avoided
Source: Time By Dan Stewart Nice was the third major attack in France in 18 months Senior politicians in France have begun questioning the country’s anti terror strategy, hours after a man driving a truck killed 84 people in France’s third major terrorist attack in 18 months. Alain Juppé, a […]
Three Reasons France Became a Target for Jihad
Source: Time By John R. Bowen Jihad seems to hit France harder than other countries, with more than 1,000 young people leaving to fight on the side of ISIS or […]
Turkey strongly condemns Nice attack, offers solidarity with France
Source: Huriyat Daily News Turkey has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed at least 84 people in Nice during the French National Day celebrations, offering solidarity with France and […]
Why the terrorists are winning the intelligence war?
Source: Asia Times. Yet another criminal known to security services has perpetrated a mass killing, the Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel. Why did the French police allow a foreign national with a criminal record of violence reside in France? Apart from utter incompetence, the explanation is that he was a snitch for the […]
As many as 84 dead as truck hits crowd in Nice, France
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred, killing one is like triggering a genocide. ( Al Quran 5:32/33) Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice Source: BBC A […]
How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought?
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI MAGNANVILLE, France — The first time Larossi Abballa appeared on the radar of French terrorism investigators, the only act of violence they […]
France: French police officer and partner murdered in ‘odious terrorist attack’
Convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa fatally stabs Jean-Baptiste Salvaing before killing officer’s partner in attack claimed by Isis The French government has denounced an “abject act of terrorism” after a man with a previous terrorist conviction carried out a gruesome knife murder of a police commander and his partner at their […]
France: Arab history: Fraxinet
Fraxinet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The “plateau of Moors” near Fraxinet Fraxinet or Fraxinetum (Arabic: فرخشنيط Farakhshanīt or فرخسة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: “ash tree“, fraxinetum: “ash forest”) was the site of a 10th-century fortress established by Muslims at modern La Garde-Freinet, near Saint-Tropez, in Provence. The modernMassif des […]
Crossing into the alien north… of Paris
Source: BBC In most cities, different neighbourhoods have a different character and those who live in them can develop tribal loyalties – sometimes even a snobbish disdain for some other […]
No peace on the horizon
Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The French-sponsored conference that was attended by senior representatives of 26 countries, including senior French and American officials, has failed to outline the next step towards reaching the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now approaching 50 years. This disappointing outcome underlines the […]
French police quiz cardinal over alleged abuse cover-up
Source: Yahoo News By Gregory Danel Lyon (AFP) – One of France’s most powerful Catholic leaders, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was questioned by police on Wednesday over allegations he covered up the […]
France releases terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016
Source: BBC The French government has released a mobile phone app to alert the public in the event of a terrorist attack. The app is being released ahead of the […]
Frenchman ‘planned attacks during Euro 2016’ – Ukraine’s SBU
Source: BBC A Frenchman detained last month with a large cache of arms was planning mass attacks during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday, Ukrainian officials say. […]