The world’s oldest companies: The business of survival
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 […]
Winning by Retreating: The Lesson Russians Taught Napoleon
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 […]
Report: French rail firm banned Muslims from working during Peres visit
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 workers ‘banned from Gare du Nord during Israeli president visit’ (New version of Liberty, Brotherhood and Equality?) (Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité – the French State Motto)
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 […]
Front National’s Le Pen had Swiss bank account, Mediapart claims
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 […]
France’s Muslim women fearful as govt seeks to widen hijab ban
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 […]
Disgraced budget minister had 15 million in Swiss account,
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:
Women Burn ‘Flag of Islam’ in Paris
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 […]
Air France fined in pro-Palestinian activist case
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 […]
Air France fined for racist move
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
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 […]
Up to 600 European jihadists have fought in Syria – study
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 […]
French ex-minister admits lying about Swiss account
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 […]
Carla Bruni says Sarkozy charges are ‘painful’
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 […]
Muslims most religious community in France: Study
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 […]
Henri de Boulainvilliers: A French Biographer of the Prophet Muhammad
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 […]
Frenchman who ripped a Muslim woman’s veil off is given a five-month suspended sentence
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 […]
US, UK and France training Syrian rebels in Jordan – reports
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 […]
Peres Meets Jewish, Muslim Leaders in France
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, […]
Robert Fisk: ‘War on Terror is the West’s New Religion!’
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 […]