News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
Currently the front-runner in national polls for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States drew widespread condemnation around the world this week. In an interview on MSNBC television in the US, the business tycoon justified his proposition saying it was common sense especially
A Frenchman who killed his boss and pinned his severed head to a fence at an industrial gas factory has committed suicide in his jail cell, prison authorities said on Wednesday. Yassin Salhi, 35, hanged himself from the bars of his cell using his bed sheets on Tuesday night, according to authorities at Fleury-Merogis prison,
The decision was met with fierce criticism from left-wing allies of the Socialist government. There were also calls from the right for Justice Minister Christiane Taubira to resign as she had publicly opposed the measure. After Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in the November 13 attacks in Paris, President Francois Hollande called
Authorities in the southern French city of Montpellier this week arrested a young woman in possession of a fake pregnant stomach accessory, in fear that it could be used to conceal explosives in a suicide attack, French media reported Wednesday. The plastic prosthesis, ordered via the Internet by the suspect, could be attached to the
Britain has not seen rise in anti-Muslim sentiment since the attacks on Paris, according to a new study carried out by the University of Manchester. Rob Ford and Maria Sobolewska asked respondents the same questions before and after the attacks on Paris which killed 130 people and found that prior to the atrocity 33% of