Is the high school a “nest of hypocritical vipers” loyal to Salafism as a former teacher claims or did the teacher create a “conspiracy theory” without evidence? The two arguments were vehemently opposed on Friday during a defamation trial closed to the public in Lille. The establishment, under state contract and classified in 2013 by…
A Muslim student who was denied entry to her French school last month for wearinga full-length skirt has returned to classes in a similar outfit after her story sparked global outrage. “I did nothing wrong, I’m respecting the law as I always take off my headscarf before I enter the school; so there is…
The French government is under growing pressure to make a clear ruling on whether schoolgirls can wear long skirts in state schools. Around 150 Muslim girls have been sent home in the last 18 months for turning up in long skirts or robes which were judged by their head-teachers to break the 11-year-old law…
A French mayor backed by the far-right Front National has been accused of racism after using the names of schoolchildren in his town to decide how many were Muslim. Under France’s strict secularism laws, the government does not keep statistics on people’s religion or ethnicity. But Robert Ménard, mayor of Béziers in the south of…
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 4/30/15) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released a video showing its questioning of infamous Dutch Islamophobe and far-right politician Geert Wilders at a Capitol Hill news conference with his congressional hosts Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). CAIR…
