Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military […]
Ynet News France’s national railway company banned its black and North African employees from working during President Shimon Peres’ visit last month over fears they “might be Muslim,” newspapers in […]
Black and North African railway workers were banned from working at Paris’s Gare du Nord when the President of Israel visited France over fears they might be Muslim, it has […]
Rfi. France’s far-right Front National (FN) has been caught up in the fallout from the tax avoidance scandal that toppled Socialist budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac with revelations that party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen had a Swiss bank account. The news is an embarrassment for his daughter, Marine Le Pen, who […]
Al Arabiya – The controversy surrounding the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, has been rekindled in France this week after the French Court of Cassation annulled the 2008 dismissal of a Muslim nurse from a private daycare center because she refused to stop wearing the hijab. The court’s decision created a […]
Rfi: Disgraced French Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac had 15 million euros salted away in his secret Swiss bank account, a Swiss reporter claimed Sunday. And Cahuzac provided a fake tax certificate when he transferred the money to Singapore, reports say. More:
The Arutz Sheva, Israel: Three members of the French feminist group FEMEN burned an Islamic flag this week outside the Grand Mosque of Paris. The flag-burning was carried out as a protest of oppression of women in the Muslim world. A Tunisian activist set fire to the flag, on which […]
Source: BBC A French court has found Air France guilty of discrimination for removing a pro-Palestinian activist from a flight to Israel because she was not Jewish. The court also […]
Source: BBC A French court has found Air France guilty of discrimination for removing a pro-Palestinian activist from a flight to Israel because she was not Jewish. The court also […]
Tens of thousands of people protest against France’s same-sex marriage bill on March 24 in Paris Paris (CNN) — The French Senate will debate a controversial bill Thursday that would extend […]
AFP | Apr 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES LONDON — As many as 600 Europeans have joined the rebels fighting government forces in Syria, according to a British study. Jihadists from 14 European countries including France, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands are among those to enter the conflict, according to […]
France 24: France’s former budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac admitted on Tuesday that he had held a secret bank account abroad – a fact that he has strenuously denied until now. His admission comes two weeks after he resigned from the Socialist government over allegations that he had siphoned funds into a UBS […]
Source^: TOI PARIS: Carla Bruni said the charges faced by her husband and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy in connection with a probe into illegal party funding were “painful” for her and her family, local media reported today. “It’s painful to talk about it and equally painful to […]
Press TV: According to the survey conducted by the French Sociovision Institute and released on March 8, 68 percent of the French Muslims attach more importance to their religious values […]
French Muslims may want to know a hero from a few centuries ago, who did some ground work for them, however, imperfect: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henri de Boulainvilliers (born October 21, 1658 in Saint-Saire, Normandy; died January 23, 1722 in Paris) was a French writer and historian. Educated at thecollege of Juilly, he served […]
Muslim woman had her veil ripped off at a fairground in Nantes 30-year-old man protested that he was just enforcing French law Veil ban came into force in April 2011 […]
Foreign instructors are training Syrian rebels in modern warfare in Jordan, suggest media reports from Europe. Sources claim the trainees will be the security force if Assad goes, while the […]
President Peres meets the heads of the Jewish community of France and a delegation of Imams, one year after attacks in Toulouse. President Shimon Peres met on Sunday with the heads of the Jewish community of France and with a delegation of Imams including the heads of the Egyptian, African, […]
But all the crusading and invading simply plays into al-Qa’ida’s hands – just ask the French By Robert Fisk: He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has […]
Dalil Boubakeur is one of France’s most prominent Muslims. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he discusses what retiring Pope Benedict XVI did wrong in bridging the Muslim-Catholic divide and how […]