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 […]
MI6 and CIA Fomented The Syrian Uprising 2 Years Before It Happened
GLOBAL RESEARCH – Gearóid Ó Colmáin In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British […]
Anti-Muslim violence: A wakeup call for European governments
BY MARWAN MUHAMMAD, ELSA RAY AND MICHAËL PRIVOT BRUSSELS – A police check of a Muslim woman wearing the full-face veil recently sparked riots in a Paris suburb, and has […]
French jobless claims in June reach record high
France 24: By News Wires (text) More people were jobless in France in June than ever before, data showed on Wednesday in a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande’s pledge to reverse the rising unemployment trend by year-end. The latest worsening of the job market, which came despite signs this month of […]
France’s headscarf war: ‘It’s an attack on freedom’
Epigraph: And say to the believing women … that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent thereof, and that they draw their head-coverings over their bosoms, and […]
Paris backs veil ban, police after ‘unacceptable’ violence
Source: TOI TRAPPES (France): The French government on Tuesday condemned as “unacceptable” weekend violence in a Paris suburb triggered by the country’s ban on full-face veils and strongly defended the controversial law. Two senior members of the government, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and interior minister Manuel Valls, spoke following the […]
Why many French Muslims choose burial abroad
By Hugh Schofield. BBC News, Paris. Every year thousands of bodies are being repatriated from France to the Maghreb, as Muslim families return their loved ones to the soil of […]
French police station attacked amid tensions over ban on Muslim face veils
By Associated Press, Published: July 20 WASHINGTON POST TRAPPES, France — About 250 people hurling projectiles clashed with police firing tear gas west of Paris, in apparent protest over enforcement of […]
France’s Marianne muse stirs pot with anti-Islam tweet
France24: The leader of feminist activist group Femen, Inna Shevchenko, on Tuesday sparked an online controversy after posting an anti-Islam message to her Twitter account. Shevchenko is one of the inspirations for France’s new official stamp depicting Marianne, the feminine symbol of the French Republic – a fact that makes […]