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A yearly meeting for Muslims concludes in France with 50,000 participants   On Monday, the 32nd annual meeting for Muslims in France closed in the suburb of Le Bourget in Paris. The event lasted for three days and was organized by the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (non-profit). The title...
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...
For the last few months, France has been witnessing a cultural and ideological conflict that arises from what we may call renewing the religious discourse. The conflict started when the former French Minister of Interior invented the term “the Islam of France,” which developed to become an...
The author comments on the establishment of the first Islamic council in France and gives a background about it.
The article is an overview of a book by the head of the French Council of the Islamic Religion, titled “Non! L’Islam n’est pas Politique [Islam is not politics].”
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.
In the recent election of the Islamic Council in France, the Muslim Moroccan community won 16 of the 41 seats of the council. Bu-Bakr, the imam of Paris Mosque and the official representative of Muslims in France, is worried about the Islamic Organizations Union, which is supported by the Egyptian...
Muhammad Emara is right that some Christians have been using unfair missionary methods such as using moments that people are weak to spread the Gospel but it is unfair to generalize this for all Christians [see art. 9 in this issue]
In the drama that followed the republishing of the Danish cartoons across several European nations, the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, and also the Danish Consulate in Beirut, were all burnt down. These incidents prompted those foreign ministers to advise their people to leave Syria...
French Foreign Minister, Philip Douste-Blazy, met yesterday with the Grand Imām of the Azhar, Dr. Muhammad Sayyid Tantāwī, and affirmed his country’s desire to promote bilateral cooperation with the Azhar.

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