News Agencies – February 28, 2012 Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight for being too emancipated. A man was being held by police after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris. Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman’s face and then covered her…
News Agencies – February 25, 2012 It was supposed to be a cross-border shopping trip to New York State to break the monotony of a Quebec winter – a Montreal soccer dad, his wife, their adult son and their two youngest children packed in a car, headed toward Plattsburgh. But when the Benaouda family got…
News Agencies – February 20, 2012 French suburbs are becoming ‘Muslim land’, French journalist and historian Alexandre Adler told France Info. Adler also said that many French Muslims want this, and that he’s concerned about the self-administration against the State in those neighborhoods. Adler said the violence in the banlieues can’t be explained only…
News Agencies – February 26, 2012 French Muslim groups have urged the government to take a stronger position against rising anti-Islam sentiments, calling for a modified legislation to tackle the surging Islamophobic crimes targeting the Muslim minority. “The actions and threats that have been the subject of formal complaints to the police and gendarmerie have…
News Agencies – February 6, 2012 France inaugurated its first municipal Muslim cemetery in the city of Strasbourg, a move hailed by Islamic leaders as a step in recognizing one of the country’s largest minority groups. Local officials and Muslim leaders attended a ceremony in the northeastern French city to launch the cemetery, which has…
