France 24: By Rachel HOLMAN (text) As workers diligently set about clearing the stage from a last-ditch demonstration in Paris against a recent French law legalising same-sex marriage and adoption on Sunday evening, protest organisers and participants already had their minds geared towards how to keep their movement alive. Staged by the organisation Manif […]
Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad?” Alphonse de Lamartine, Foreign Minister of France, in his book History of Turkey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump […]
Source: The Huffington Post Reuters | By Tom Heneghan Posted: 05/09/2013 3:09 pm EDT PARIS, May 9 (Reuters) – France’s Muslim leaders have agreed to end almost 1,400 years of Islamic tradition […]
France 24: French Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault wrote a letter to members of the government Thursday asking them to avoid using English words, even when dealing with technological innovations. The request comes after Arnaud Montebourg, minister of industrial renewal, and Michèle Delaunay, minister for the elderly, announced they were creating a new […]
France24. France will keep its defence budget broadly stable for the next five years, after meeting stiff resistance from lawmakers and the army to proposed cuts, although the flat budget will mean 34,000 job losses by 2019. A five-year blueprint for military strategy published on Monday said, “in total, from […]
The Leaders stand in the background as contracts are signed Source: China Daily Xi, Hollande vow to push ties and build multipolar world order Beijing and Paris signed 18 deals on […]
Cultures & Croyances – (Culture & Belief) Religions have always been considered to be practiced with heart without any intervention of the reason or any form of logic. It is always said that it divides more than it creates harmony. Indeed, we have witnessed many religious wars that have caused […]
What is the secret of corporate longevity? Dec 16th 2004 |From the print edition of THE ECONOMIST ACCORDING to the book of Genesis, Enoch (or Henok), son of Cain and […]
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 […]