Baby Loup affair pushes question of religion at workplace into centre

October 22, 2013 The Baby Loup affair surrounding the question of wearing religious symbols in general and the hijab in particular in a nursery returned to the media when the French Court of Appeal opposed the Supreme Court’s decision on calling the termination of a French Muslim woman’s work contract in a nursery unlawful. The…

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Suicide attack of French Muslim in Syria

Liberation A French Muslim killed himself in a suicide against the Syrian regime in Al-Hamam, a small village southwest of Aleppo, on Wednesday, according to the NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). The man in his 20s, named as “Abou- al-Qaaqaa” killed 10 soldiers in the attack by the Islamic State in Iraq and…

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Conversions to Islam aren’t a new phenomena

22.08.2013 Liberation Following the riots in Trappes and the death of a French Muslim jihadist in Syria, the question of Muslim converts who are commonly associated with religious radicalism in mainstream media has been brought back to the forefront of the French media landscape. The research director of the CNRS France and expert in Islam,…

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Contradicting announcements on beginning of Ramadan amongst French Muslim organisations

Zaman France 09.07.2013 The Grand Mosque of Paris has on Tuesday announced the beginning of this year’s Ramadan on Wednesday, July 10, contradicting the French Council of the Muslim Faith’s (CFCM) previous decision to declare the beginning of Ramadan for Tuesday, July 9. The month of Ramadan begins with the sighting of the moon crescent…

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The quest for French educated imams

Liberation 07.05.2013 As so often declared by the French Government, the recent Secretary of State, Maneul Valls, wants to see more imams educated in France in mosques all over the country. He has made it one of his priority tasks to forward the cause and instructed a study conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education…

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