France

France: Teacher Sprayed with Gas after Denouncing al-Qaeda

hd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:15:38 -0400

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

hd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:12:23 -0400

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

hd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:29 -0400

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

li — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:26:00 -0500

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

li — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:20:24 -0500

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

li — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:15:15 -0500

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

hrc — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:57:43 -0500

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

hrc — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:54:29 -0500

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

hd — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:53:23 -0500

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

hrc — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:38:06 -0500

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

hd — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:59:43 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:51:17 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:40:08 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:34:25 -0500

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

hd — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:43:52 -0500

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

hd — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:46:55 -0500

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

hd — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:45:42 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:29:57 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:27:33 -0500

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

hd — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:22:06 -0500

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