“While about 60% of the incarcerated population in France, today that’s around 40,000 prisoners, can be considered culturally or religiously Muslim, the Islamist radicalization is now likely to involve several hundred prisoners,” stated UMP member Guillaume Larrivé in a report “For an Islamist Anti-Radicalization Plan in Prison.” Larrivé worked to update the penitentiary administrative…
Nadine Morano, politician and member of the UMP, caused a scene at Gare de l’Est in Paris after seeing a fully veiled woman waiting for a train. “Ranting and thundering,” she called for local police in the train station. The woman was wearing a niqab, and not a burqa as Morano contended. After summoning the…
A fifty-four year old man has been sentenced to six months in prison after yelling “Long live the Islamic State,” and threatening to return to the scene with a gun. He was found guilty for “publicly condoning an act of terrorism.” The case dates back to last Monday when the man, who received government financial…
In an online video called “Message of the Mujahid” (Message of the Fighter), the Islamic State continued to call for attacks against the members of the coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. This time the threat comes from a Frenchmen who presents himself as a jihadist. The video has yet to be authenticated…
Paris-Dauphine offers a Master’s degree in Islamic Finance, providing the legal framework to do business within Islam. Farid Abderrezak, who teaches at Paris-Dauphine, is a banking specialist with BNP Paribas Nahman in Bahrain and says he is able to continue his work despite such “constraints.” “Look, profitability remains the primary criterion for investors, which does…
