News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
A dozen of Muslim men stood outside a church in France to protect Christians from any potential attacks during midnight Christmas Mass on Thursday. Members of the Muslim community in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), northern France, arrived in one of the city’s churches to guard Christians, while they prayed and enjoyed their midnight mass on such a
The French authorities have conducted more than 2,700 police raids under a nationwide state of emergency instituted after last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris. Using extraordinary powers granted by France’s National Assembly, officers have conducted searches without warrants of dozens of homes, arrested hundreds of people and have even shut down mosques and prayer
Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and set fire to copies of the Koran on the French island of Corsica on Christmas Day, in an attack condemned by the government. The violence came amid heightened security measures for the holiday, and nationwide fears after the November 13 attacks by jihadists that killed 130 people. Manuel
Burger King is going halal in France, aiming for the business of that nation’s estimated 5 million Muslims, according to a new report. English-language local reported that the U.S. burger chain recently took over the Quick chain of fast-food restaurants in France and is planning to make about 40 of them, about 10 percent of
French police brutalized a Muslim woman in an alleyway in a suburb of Paris, this morning. A shocking video captured from the balcony of a residential building in Pantin, just outside of Paris, shows a Muslim woman being beaten by half a dozen French police officers. According to eye witnesses who uploaded the video to