Fortress Europe: How the EU Turns Its Back on Refugees
They come seeking refuge, but when asylum seekers cross into the European Union, they often find little compassion. In Greece, they are held in squalid detention camps, while in Italy […]
French police detain suspected Islamist sent from Pakistan
Source: News.Yahoo.Com via Wasim Sr. PARIS (Reuters) – A Frenchman held in Pakistan for months on suspicion of training Islamist militants was detained for questioning by French police on his return home, an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. Naamen Meziche was arrested on a bus along […]
Qatar Plan to Invest in Muslim Populated Paris Suburbs Makes Some French Uneasy
Oil-rich Qatar invests extensively around the world without a hitch. One of the largest recipients of Qatari money is France, where the Gulf state bankrolls media and construction companies and owns Paris-Saint Germain, now one of the world’s richest soccer clubs. But France is also another example of how efforts […]
Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi hosts Arab science exhibition
Source: The National By: Hugo Berger | September 19, 2013 An exhibition into the time when Arabic scientific knowledge surpassed the rest of the world is starting next week at the […]
Faith, politics clash over Muslim-run women’s gym in France
Oct 4, 2013, 10.47PM IST Reuters LE RAINCY, France: A pink and orange all-women’s gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and […]
Faith, politics clash over Muslim-run women's gym in France
Oct 4, 2013, 10.47PM IST Reuters LE RAINCY, France: A pink and orange all-women’s gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and […]
Extremism is Ignorance, Interfaith Dialogue, France.
Editor The Muslim Times, France. Jama’at Ahmadiyya Val d’oise France organized an inter religious conference on 29th of September 2013. The topic was, “Extremism is the Result of Ignorance and not Religion.” Leaders of all the leading religions took part and favored the theme of the meeting. Conference started with […]
5 Good News Stories From the Muslim World
…… Here are 5 good news stories from the Muslim world: Muslims in the UK Are Most Charitable A recent survey of the different faith groups in the UK revealed […]
Inter Religious Conference, Val d’oise, France.
Editor of the Muslim Times for France. Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Val d’oise, France is going to organize an inter religious conference. It will take place on 29th of September […]
Don’t follow France’s burqa ban. It has curbed liberty and justice
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
French mom sentenced over “I am a bomb” T-shirt on young son
Source: Moroco World News. DIJON, France — An appeals court in France convicted a woman on Friday for sending her son, named “Jihad,” to nursery school with a shirt that read “I am a bomb.” He arrived at school in another shirt reading “Jihad: Born on Sept. 11.” The child was, […]
France to ban beauty pageants for under-16s
By RFI France’s Senate has backed a proposal to ban on beauty pageants for girls under 16 years old. Organisers of the contests would face up to two years in prison and fines of up to 30,000 euros in a bid to stop the “hypersexualisation” of young girls. “Don’t let’s allow […]
“Cola drinks contain small amounts of alcohol”
Source: French study via FAZ dated 27.06.2012 newspaper under health section: Up to ten milligrams per liter: The French consumer INC. Institute has found that cola drinks contain very small amounts of alcohol. Especially among Muslims that led to uncertainty. Based on a French study conducted by France’s National Institute […]
French schools to display Secular Charter with rules on religion
By RFI A new “Charter of Secularism” is to be posted in state schools to remind pupils, parents and teachers that although in France everyone is free to practise any religion […]
Muslim Ribery Wins Top Europe Award
CAIRO – Bayern Munich’s French Muslim football player Bilal Franck Ribery has been named the best player in Europe in the 2012/13 season, beating Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s […]
French girl attempts suicide after ‘veil attack’
A French teenager has attempted suicide after reportedly being assaulted by skinheads for wearing the Muslim veil. The 16-year-old jumped from the fourth floor of her apartment building outside Paris […]
Lyon cathedral adorned with ‘Muslim’ gargoyle
Source: BBC A Muslim stonemason in France has been immortalised by having his face carved on a gargoyle on the side of the medieval cathedral in Lyon. 59-year-old master mason Ahmed Benzizine, who is due to retire soon, has spent nearly four decades helping to restore the ancient Roman Catholic […]
‘Climate of Islamophobia’: Two attackers rip veil off French girl
RT: A 16-year old girl was attacked in Paris suburb and had the Islamic veil she was wearing torn from her face. As anti-Islamic attacks in France soar, a French […]
France arrests soldier over mosque attack plan
Dawn: PARIS: French police have arrested a young soldier on suspicion of planning to fire shots at a mosque near the eastern city of Lyon, the interior ministry said Sunday. […]
What is the world’s favorite holiday destination?
Source: BBC By Ben Carter For many people the holiday season has arrived. Where do those travelling abroad go? UN figures suggest that France had more foreign visitors than any […]