French Prime Minister Francois Fillon attended the inauguration of a mosque in Argenteuil, a suburb north of Paris, the first time a head of government has attended such an event. Fillon gave a speech to the 800 dignitaries in which he denounced violence against Muslims in France. But he also warned against religious fundamentalism. Fillon…
On 28 June 2010 French Prime Minister François Fillon will inaugurate a mosque in Argenteuil, in the Val-d’Oise, in the Val-d’Argent-Nord neighborhood. The Prime Minister will give a speech in the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Brice Hortefeux. Approximatley 28,000 Muslims live in Argenteuil.
News Agencies France’s top administrative body has advised the government against a complete ban on the full Islamic veil, instead suggesting outlawing the burqa in some places for security reasons. President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is planning to present a bill to parliament in the coming weeks to restrict Muslim women from wearing full-face veils such…
The French government has decided to deny the nationality to a man over allegations that he has forced his French wife to wear the face-veil. “This case is about a religious radical,” said French Prime Minister François Fillon, following Immigration Minister Eric Besson’s admission about the case. “He imposes the burqa, he imposes the separation…
Stopping briefly at the annual CRIF (French Council of Jewish Institutions or the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives en France) dinner in Paris, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called those engaging in anti-Semitic and anti-Islamophobic actions “racists who should not be accepted in the French Republic.” In his speech, Prime Minister François Fillon recognized that the…
