France
French town responds to Muslim burial needs
15 January 2013 Despite Islam being the second largest religion in France, rural France continues to fail to accommodate the Muslim dead. While urban areas often have cemeteries or sections of such specifically allocated to Muslims, French villages in most cases do not. With the rise of France’s Muslims population, the need for Muslim…
French Council of the Muslim Faith commends French President
14 January 2013 In a communiqué released by the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), the organization praises the French President’s avoidance of the term ‘islamist’ and ‘islamism’ in his recent speech, announcing French support to the Malian government’s battle against armed rebels. The CFCM salutes the President’s precaution and brings to…
The numbers of French Muslims and Muslims in France are exaggerated
12 January 2013 The Nouvel Observateur has sat down with the French-Syrian historian and co-author of the book ‘Notre France’ (Our France), Farouk Mardam Bey, to discuss his work on identity, integration and the idea of France. Bey describes his work as a product of the previous French presidential campaign, when polemic debates on French…
French magazine sparks another controversy over Mohammed cartoons
News agencies – January 2, 2013 French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo has published a special issue containing cartoons on the life of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. Similar images, which are deemed blasphemous by Muslims, have sparked international protest in the past. But the publisher of magazine said the 64-page issue, titled ‘The Life of Mohammed,’…
French Muslim groups sue magazine over Prophet Mohammed cartoons
News Agencies – December 7, 2012 Two Muslim organizations launched legal proceedings against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, accusing it of inciting racial hatred after it published provocative cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The allegations concern cartoons that caricatured the Prophet, including two drawings which show him naked, published at a time, on September…