More than half of Dutch teachers (61 %) have been witness to verbal or physical offenses against Muslims by their students. With that, discrimination against Muslims occurs more often than antisemitism (36 %) or discrimination against Christians (30 %), but less often than discrimination against homosexuals (77 %). These conclusions were based on a research…
France was already threatened by ISIL in February. Several weeks later, the group struck again. In an audio message posted online, Abou Mohammad Al-Adnani, official spokesman for the jihadist group, declared the group hopes to “topple the White House, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower.” Throughout the 27 minutes, he discussed possible attacks against French…
Since the January 2015 attacks, books discussing Islam are in high demand. An increase in sales can be seen both on Amazon and in local bookstores. Sales of the Quran have increased throughout France. On Amazon, Malek Chebel’s translation of the Quran claims the sixth most-sold book in the “Religion” category. At a bookstore Sauramps…
It’s not the first time that the Great Mosque of Belfort has invited non-Muslims, but it’s undeniable that the following the Charlie Hebdo attacks the exposition “the beauty of the Islam or how to explain Islam” takes a somewhat unusual twist. Among the questions frequently asked by visitors, the place of the woman in Islam,…
From March 6-8, France 3 asked French philosophers: “What should French secularism be?” For Michel Onfray, atheist philosopher, “secularism must evolve,” because when the 1905 law was proclaimed, “we were in an ultra Catholic non-Muslim context.” He calls for a “republican Islam: We should be able to allow imams to be trained in France and…
