Philosophy teacher Soufiane Zitouni, who severely criticized his former employer Averroès High School in Lille, was sentenced September 4 for defamation and private injury. He announced he would appeal the ruling. The 48 year-old teacher was interview in February by Libération in an article entitled “Why I quit Averroès High School.” He accused the directors…
The newspaper Le Progres reported the case of Djema Ouada, who paid for a ride to Grau-du-Rois using BlaBlaCar. But after seeing the young women wearing a veil, the driver refused to give her a ride. “For Djema Ouada, a young hairdresser, looking for work and living in Grigny, holiday traffic forced her to take…
In an interview with Le Parisien, the famous rapper responded to questions posed by fans. As a Muslim, Maître Gims, or Gandhi Djuna, responded to several questions about Islam in France. The former member of Sexion d’Assaut admitted that it was not east to be a Muslim in France while images are circulated about Islamist…
In France, 40 Muslim schools reopened their doors this week. In Nanterre, (Hauts-de-Seine) two opened for the first time. The Ibn Badis Institute is attached to the mosque local mosque. The project has been in the works for 21 years and welcomed its first students in September. Unlike the school project halted by the local…
A number of European countries have agreed to boost security on trains and at railway stations within the bloc on Saturday following the foiled terror attack on a train in France on August 21, the French and German interior ministers have confirmed. At a meeting in Paris on Saturday, representatives from Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg,…
