France won’t dine with Iran unless wine is served Source: Washington Post BERLIN — Guess who’s not coming to dinner — or even breakfast or lunch? Ahead of Iranian President […]
Source: New York Times By Sylvie Kauffmann The Indian organizers of two concerts by Ghulam Ali, a veteran Pakistani singer, did not want to take chances. They had received local […]
Time: French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen is set to face a trialin October for her past comments likening Muslim public prayers to the Nazi occupation, officials from her party and prosecutors in the eastern city of Lyon said Tuesday. The Lyon prosecutor’s office said Le Pen will be charged […]
Economist: MAX WEBER, the great German theorist of religious influence on economics, seems to be gaining more followers by the day. The latest person to posit a religious explanation for […]
War begets refugees Aug 18,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On April 26, 2011, a meeting that can only be described as sinister took place between then-Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting in Rome was how to deal with African immigrants. […]
http://www.patheos.com/: As is usually the case in France, any time anything happens where Muslims could even remotely be involved, it becomes a media circus – any time is a good […]
French and Malaysian officials will meet as authorities confirm metallic debris found by locals did not come from an aircraft. Telegraph Reports Five days after the discovery of a Boeing 777 wing fragment on La Reunion island, French and Malaysian aviation experts will meet together with police and magistrates in […]
Tourists in Annecy have been told that France banned veils back in 2011. Photo: AFP Swiss tourists warned of French burqa ban Published: 23 Jul 2015 11:11 GMT+02:00 Police in […]
Guardian: Beach lovers on the French Riviera expressed their anger on Sunday over the imminent arrival of the Saudi royal family, who have ordered a long stretch of beach to […]
nbcnews.com PARIS — France will ban excessively thin models and expose modeling agents and the fashion houses that hire them to possible fines and even jail, under a new law passed on Friday. France joins Italy, Spain and Israel which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in […]
Excerpt from letter from Abdul Rahim to Fatah Muhammad Syal – This is an excerpt from a letter written by an Indian Post Office clerk, Abdul Rahim, to Fatah Muhammad […]
Summary Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon The most dangerous and troubling of the terror attacks in the past week in Tunisia Kuwait, France, Egypt and Yemen are probably the Kuwaiti and Egyptian attacks. The bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City […]
France opens terrorism probe after beheading attack at gas factory CATHERINE LAGRANGE SAINT-QUENTIN-FALLAVIER , France — Reuters Published Friday, Jun. 26, 2015 5:56AM EDT Last updated Friday, Jun. 26, 2015 10:02AM EDT 45 38 1 https://apis.google.com/u/0/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&size=medium&annotation=bubble&width=&hl=en&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fone-dead-in-attack-explosion-at-french-gas-factory-arabic-banners-found-near-decapitated-body%2Farticle25128916%2F&gsrc=3p&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.gKmhOycH3WM.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAGLTcCMO1egpdt63yfFOvaheZfmhqK-KOw#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh%2Conload&id=I0_1435347149997&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com&pfname=&rpctoken=41312302 AA A decapitated body daubed with Arabic writing was found at a U.S. gas […]
Source: BBC The US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on French Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-12, Wikileaks says. The whistleblower website cites “top secret intelligence reports and technical documents” from the NSA. A French official said spying “between allies was unacceptable”. Mr Hollande is to […]
Source: BBC The US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on French Presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-12, Wikileaks says. The whistleblower website cites “top secret intelligence reports and technical documents” from the NSA. A French official said spying “between allies was unacceptable”. Mr Hollande is to […]
By AFP – Jun 21,2015 – TURIN, Italy — Pope Francis said Sunday the plight of asylum seekers hoping for a new life in Europe was enough to make him […]
Source: ET Prime Minister Manuel Valls attends a meeting with French Muslims organisations in Paris, on June 15, 2015. PHOTO: AFP PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed on Monday there was no link between extremism and Islam, as he opened a conference aimed at improving ties with France’s large Muslim […]
Source: ET Prime Minister Manuel Valls attends a meeting with French Muslims organisations in Paris, on June 15, 2015. PHOTO: AFP PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stressed on Monday there was no link between extremism and Islam, as he opened a conference aimed at improving ties with France’s large Muslim […]
French Muslims say constant talk about banning veils has made them targets of abuse. Credit Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times WISSOUS, France — Malek Layouni was not thinking […]
A French mayor, who claimed on Twitter that Islam will be banned in France by 2027, is facing expulsion from the country’s main opposition conservative party after rightists termed his […]