Daily Mail: April 4, 2011 Women wearing burkas in France will face fines – but the areas around mosques will be exempt Police in France have been warned not to arrest any women wearing Muslim veils ‘in or around’ mosques. The strict instructions, from Interior Minister Claude Guent, are contained in a nine page circular…
Journal du Dimanche – October 26, 2010 NPNS has launched its “Ambassadors of French Secularism and Equality” operation, designed to mobilize anti-burqa-law movements in the housing projects outside of Paris. The group is collaborating with Eric Besson, minister of immigration.
A French Muslim threatened by the government with being stripped of his passport for practicing polygamy said he had only one wife and several mistresses. The case of Lies Hebbadj, an Algerian-born butcher who became a citizen when he married a French woman in 1999, has flared into a major political debate. The government, which…
French Immigration Minister Eric Besson has denied converting to Islam. Rumors began when Besson began sharing his private life with a young Tunisian woman. Some journalists suggested conversion would be necessary should he want to marry Wassila Bourguiba.
The French government has refused to grant citizenship to a foreign national on the grounds that he forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil. The Moroccan-born man needed citizenship to settle in the country with his French wife. Immigration Minister Eric Besson said this was being refused because he was depriving his wife…
