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The French Parliament adopted a law, imposing jail sanctions against anyone who denies the Turkish holocaust committed against Armenians during the First World War. The law aroused wide arguments in France, Turkey and the European Union in general.
Last week two mosques in south and north-west France were attacked by vandals, who daubed the walls with scrawled swastikas and racist slogans. French Interior Minister Nikolas Sarkozy condemned the vandalism, noting that attacks on places of worship are intolerable. The minister called on...
The French Prime Minister attended the first meeting of the French Council of the Islamic Religion. The participants applauded his speech as he explained that the French government would deal with the council as a body representing Muslims in France. He called on the council to be a voice of...
The administrative board of the French Council of the Islamic Religion has finally been elected. Algerian Dalil Boubakeur has been elected as its president. This council is the first body to represent and speak in the name of the Muslim community in France.
The vice-president of the French Council for the Islamic Religion and the head of the French Muslims national federation declared that he and a number of anti-racism organizations will bring the editor-in-chief of the French weekly Le Point, to court because of his anti-Islam statements. He...
Last November, al-Qā‘ida published a statement on the Internet warning Europe and the United States that the new soldiers of the group were born to kill. Most surprisingly, al-Qā‘ida has made it clear that its new members are native Europeans "of European and Christian parents.”
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