One of France’s Muslim leaders lobbied at the National Assembly for the introduction of a “religious council” charged with developing a French Islam using “fatwas” adapted to the local context. Mohamed Zaidouni, President of Brittany’s chapter of French Regional Council of the Muslim Faith, a branch of the CFCM, spoke to the investigation committee in…
UMP mayor Jean-Pierre Door has fined the Montargis Muslim community 35 euros. He used his status as a police officer to fine those who had distributed roses to passerby without his authorization. Montargis’s Muslim community, associated with the Islamic Confederation of Millî Görüs, had asked several days in advance to set up a stand in…
Somewhere between wariness and the impression of déjà-vu: the expanded council representing the Muslim faith announced by Bernard Cazeneuve on February 25 has not, for the moment, convinced those whose membership will make it successful. These are the generations of Muslims born in France who, in the last ten years, have developed a social fabric…
Riad Ben Cheikh is accused of aiding a 14-year-old runaway girl trying to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) by arranging her travel. He is currently on trial on terrorism charges. The girl made contact with an ISIL recruiter using Facebook and he convinced her to join him in Syria after…
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently outlined plans to double the amount of university courses teaching Islam in an attempt to curb the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in France. During a speech in the eastern city of Strasbourg, Valls affirmed that supporting education in France was essential to erasing the ignorance that makes…
