France Orders Troop Reinforcements After Attacks By AURELIEN BREEDEN and ALAN COWELLDEC. 23, 2014 NYTimes.com PARIS — After a string of attacks across France that have heightened concerns about Islamic militancy, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday that hundreds of additional military personnel would be ordered onto the streets […]
Sometimes Séverine Mehault climbs the stairs to the second floor for no reason at all. She walks along the hallway, past her son’s room and into her daughter’s bedroom. Then […]
Alarabiya: France adopted Tuesday an anti-terrorism law which will slap a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad after the upper house Senate gave its final stamp […]
British police should be sent to Calais to help solve the port’s “tremendous problem” with illegal immigration, the French interior minister has said. Bernard Cazeneuve told the BBC officers might […]
Local councillor Maxence Buttey, 22, has been suspended from a regional Front National committee after he went public with his decision and sent out a ‘proselytising video’ to party members. […]
Ottawa, au Canada. Personne ne s’y attendait et pourtant, l’irréparable a été commis. Un jeune converti à ce que les médias appellent benoîtement l’islam, a commis un attentat contre une institution et un bâtiment officiel. Outre l’insulte que cet attentat a suscité au regard des différentes institutions publiques, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau […]
theguardian: by Nabila Ramdani — Teenage angst can cause all kinds of unfortunate behaviour, but when schoolgirls tell their parents they want to join the fight in Syria and Iraq, then society has a serious problem. Alarmingly, this is increasingly happening in France, as young Muslims express their desire for jihad. […]
theguardian: by Faiza Zerouala — Every day Meryem Belmokhtar turns her tidy sitting-room into a workshop. She lays out the equipment on the table, puts on rubber gloves and dips into various jars to make up 250g bags of sweets. Each packet is marked with her logo, featuring a stick […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR A French pilgrim who recently converted to Islam and drove 7,000 km in his car with his wife to perform Umrah is now in Makkah as […]
AP | Sep 27, 2014 | 22:39 Muslims attend a gathering in front of the Paris Mosque after Friday prayers to pay tribute to Herve Gourdel, a French mountain guide […]
French President Francois Hollande has strongly condemned the beheading in Algeria of tourist Herve Gourdel by a jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants. The president described the killing as a “cruel and cowardly” act. He said that French air strikes which began on IS targets in Iraq last […]
A French tourist has been kidnapped in Algeria by a militant group linked to Islamic State (IS), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has confirmed. Herve Gourdel, 55, was seized on Sunday in the unsettled north-east Kabylie area. Algerian militant group Jund al-Khilafa threatened to kill him if France did not […]
PARIS — The Muslim Council in France, home to Europe’s largest Islamic minority, denounced the persecution of Middle East Christians on Tuesday and said mosques across the country would pray […]
AFP French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 3, 2014, after a weekly cabinet meetingFrench Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in […]
Summary President Vladimir Putin outlined plans for a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine Wednesday but Ukraine’s premier dismissed the proposal, while France expressed its disapproval of Moscow’s support for separatist forces by halting delivery of a warship. After speaking to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by phone, Putin said he believed Kiev […]
A French court has upheld a ban on a Muslim engineer from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with what it termed as “jihadist networks”, but his lawyer called it a case of Islamophobia. Lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told AFP news agency on Monday that he was looking at launching […]
L’AHMADIYYA : UN ISLAM INTERDIT Histoire et persécutions d’une minorité au Pakistan Asif Arif L’ “Ahmadiyya “ou, péjorativement “Qadianis”, représente un mouvement fondé en 1889 en Inde par Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Se proclamant le Messie attendu par différentes religions, il s’est fait le porteur d’une réforme prônant un islam de […]
L’AHMADIYYA : UN ISLAM INTERDIT Histoire et persécutions d’une minorité au Pakistan Asif Arif L’ “Ahmadiyya “ou, péjorativement “Qadianis”, représente un mouvement fondé en 1889 en Inde par Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Se proclamant le Messie attendu par différentes religions, il s’est fait le porteur d’une réforme prônant un islam de […]
By RFI French President Francois Hollande named a new cabinet on Tuesday after an open row led to the removal of top dissident voices against austerity cuts. The first government of Valls, which was appointed less than five months ago, dissolved on Monday after former economy minister Arnaud Montebourg made strong […]
Open Letter to my Iraq Christian Brothers and to the so-called Bagdadi caliphate There is a unique distinction in the great religion that has been established by the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad: this distinction lies in its very name. “Islam” means “Peace” indicating the structure on which this religion is […]