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France: Teacher Sprayed with Gas after Denouncing al-Qaeda
Independent Online 15 March 2010
Lyon - A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their 
French mosque reopens after protest disruptions
Reuters India 15 March 2010
By James Mackenzie
DRANCY - A French mosque, whose imam says he has received death threats over his promotion of dialogue with Jews, reopened for Friday prayers after it was forced to close down this
France plans bill banning burqa for spring
France24 15 March 2010
French premier Francois Fillon has announced plans for a bill banning the full Muslim veil for the spring. His announcement comes just days ahead of regional polls which are expected to end in heavy
Far-Right election poster 'insults' Algeria
France24 9 March 2010
France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing "Islamism" and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s
Operation Anti-halal to Quick Villeurbanne
Tundra Tabloids. 9 March 2010
A herd of 70 dissatisfied pigs invaded Quick Halal Villeurbanne on Sunday morning. They intended to protest against the decision to remove the bacon burger and cons of the new offer Quick who now
France/Belgium: Women's organizations want burka ban
Islam in Europe 9 March 2010
In Paris, sixty activists of Ni Putes ni Soumises made an early start on International Women's Dyy by marching with liberty caps in the place de la République, and then symbolically covering the statue
Five European states back burka ban
Financial Times 01 March 2010
More than half of voters in four other major European states back a push by France’s Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka, according to an opinion poll for the Financial Times.
Plans for European Economic Government Gain Steam
Der Spiegel 02 March 2010
With Greek finances dragging down the euro, calls for coordinated fiscal policy within the common currency zone have become more frequent. Now, Germany and France have presented a paper outlining what such a regime might look like.
French hostage freed in Mali
News & Observer 25 February 2010
By ANGELA DOLAND
PARIS - A French hostage held captive in Mali for three months by Al-Qaida's North Africa offshoot was freed Tuesday, following a contested court decision ordering a jail release for four suspected
Europe is Having an Important Burka Debate
Family Security Matters 24 February 2010
Europe, with a seemingly large immigrant Muslim population – and not a well integrated one at that – is having open discussion on what to do about women wearing total face-obscuring garments.
France: Popular Fast Food Res-taurant Removes Pork
Daily Mail 17 February 2010
Quick Whiting (Marseille), become halal since October 2009, recorded an increasing affluence and a doubling of its sales volume and value. They say its a test ~ but likely they wont change back.
Death threats against moderate French Muslim
Examiner.com 15 February 2010
By Richard Shulman
Hassen Chalghoumi is a moderate French Imam born in Tunisia, who receives death threats. When he sympathized with Jews whose way-station to death camps was at Drancy, his city in France, his house
Muslims Confront Islamism, Get Targeted by Islamists
Right Side News 15 February 2010
By David J. Rusin
French imam Hassen Chalghoumi recently learned firsthand that Islamists despise non-Islamist Muslims as much as they do anyone else.
Chalghoumi attracted their ire by coming out strongly in favor of a ban on face-covering veils, a prohibition that is moving closer to reality. Echoing President Nicolas Sarkozy, he described the niqab as a "prison for women, a tool of sexist domination and Islamist indoctrination" that "has no place in France."
France: Headscarf wearing Muslim on Communist party list
Islam in Europe 15 February 2010
France is in an uproar after the extreme-leftist and anti-religious party NPA put a Muslim women with a headscarf on its list. The New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA) in France caused a commotion
France does not believe Iran's nuclear claim
Washington Post 13 February 2010
PARIS - France does not believe Iran's claim that it is capable of enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels, the country's foreign minister said Friday. Bernard Kouchner told Europe 1 radio
Vive la France! Where Europeans Take Women’s Equality Seriously
PajamasMedia 12 February 2010
By Phyllis Chesler
There was a time, not long ago, when I viewed the French as arrogant Arab-lovers whose leaders chose to protect Yasir Arafat’s wealth and reputation, a people which sought to expunge their record as brutal colonizers and to continue their work as Holocaust collaborators by joining the jihad against the Jewish state.
Two burqa-clad robbers hold up post office near Paris
France24 12 February 2010
Two burqa-wearing bank robbers held up a post office near Paris on Saturday, using a handgun concealed beneath an Islamic-style full veil, court officials said.
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Condemns French Parliamentary Report
SYS-CON Media 8 February 2010
LONDON -- The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat wishes to express its condemnation of the recommendations of a recent French Parliamentary Report, which called for a partial ban on
Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb issues ultimatum over hostages
Thaindian News 8 February 2010
Cairo - In a fresh ultimatum demanding release of four terrorists imprisoned in Mali by March 1, north African wing of the Al Qaeda has offered to free two of the six European
France: Municipality wants school cafeteria to stop serving meat to Muslims
Islam in Europe 8 February 2010
I don't fully understand this story. If the parents don't want their children to eat meat in the cafeteria, who's forcing them? Some families did not want their children eating meat
