French Green Party Leader Calls for Jewish and Muslim Bank Holidays

News Agencies – January 13, 2012   Speaking in Paris at her first campaign rally, Green presidential candidate Eva Joly argued that national holiday status should be accorded to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Currently six of the 12 national holidays in France are Catholic calendar events,…

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French Green municipal councillor wishes constituents happy Islamic new year

Dozens of posters were hung recently in the Paris suburb of Grigny, in which Christian Le Bras, Greens municipal councilor, wished a New Year to the residents on behalf of his party: “Europe Ecologie Grigny’s best wishes for this new year 1432-2011”. The Muslim Year 1432 started December 6th. His party was very upset by…

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