News Sources – March 16, 2012 The UMP, the party led by Nicolas Sarkozy, is courting Muslims, and reportedly made long-distance buses available to them with separate sections for women and men. The buses were used to bring them to the large elections rally the presidential candidate held on Sunday in Villepinte. The head of…
News Agencies – March 22, 2012 French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says her anti-Islam agenda has been vindicated: A French Muslim claiming ties to Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for the country’s worst killing spree in years. The spectre of radical Islam’s grip on France has threatened to overturn France’s presidential race, in…
News Agencies – March 14, 2012 President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Paris’s main mosque, a week after a row over halal meat led France’s Muslims and Jews to complain they were being used as pawns in the presidential election. Sarkozy met the mosque’s rector and the French Muslim Council leader and said he told them “he…
The Guardian – March 10, 2012 French President Sarkozy’s decision to make the labelling of halal meat pivotal to his re-election campaign has infuriated, alienated and dismayed France’s Muslim community, which may number as many as six million, and the backlash is growing. Members of the booming educated and entrepreneurial Muslim middle class say they…
News Agencies – March 7, 2012 France’s prime minister scrambled to dispel concerns in Jewish and Muslim communities after criticizing the ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat. Halal meat has emerged as a hot-button issue in the campaign for presidential elections starting next month in France. Francois Fillon’s call for religions to…
