Malek Layouni was not thinking about her Muslim faith, or her head scarf, as she took her excited 9-year-old son to an amusement site near Paris. But, as it turned out, it was all that mattered. Local officials blocked her path to the inflatable toys on a temporary beach, pointing at regulations that prohibit dogs,…
Relieved of his duties as leader of the National Front delegation in the European Parliament after calling for the “de-Islamification of France”, sources told AFP that Aymeric Chauprade is now the subject of a legal inquiry. Extreme right MEP Aymeric Chauprade is under investigation by the French authorities for his controversial video response to the…
Members of the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party last week approved Sarkozy’s proposal to rename their political organization Les Républicains in an online ballot. The name change is meant to help re-energise the party, which has been marred by bitter infighting and financial scandals in recent years. The divisions that have threatened…
A meeting held by France’s main opposition Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party was boycotted by Muslim groups in the country, seeing it as a part of a campaign to “stigmatize” their faith. “We can’t participate in an initiative like this that stigmatizes Muslims,” Abdallah Zekri from the French Muslim Council (CFCM) told…
Pew-Research-Center-European-Union-Report-FINAL-June-2-20151 The attack on the Paris office of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo in January was the most devastating terrorist incident in France since the Algerian War more than five decades ago. Two French-born Muslim brothers affiliated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula carried out the attack, killing 12 people and injuring 11 more….
