The Union of Islamic Organizations in France (UOIF), which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, said it discovered with “shock and anger” its presence on a list of “terrorist organizations” established by the United Arab Emirates. The list was published in mid-November by the UAE, which is part of an international anti-jihadist coalition led…
April 4, 2014 France’s annual report on racism has revealed a dramatic increase in intolerance among French people, reaching its highest level since 2002, amid concerns among anti-racism groups of the growing anti-immigration sentiments in the society. “The commission’s report presents figures that are very worrying for French society,” wrote Louis-Georges Tin, president of…
March 16, 2014 Marking the tenth anniversary of banning hijab in public places in France, hundreds of Muslims and rights activists have protested in Paris to demand abolishing Islamophobic laws and offering more protection to the religious minority. “All political parties contribute to the current climate of Islamophophia, but so does the media,” a…
January 16, 2014 Anthropologist of religion and expert at the National Observatory of Secularism, Dounia Bazar addresses the issue of radical Islam in her latest work, ‘Countering Radical Islam’ in which she delivers the fruits of her fifteen years of analyses on this minority phenomena that nonetheless often gets conflated with the entirety of…
01.02.2012 Le Monde In its recent magazine Le Monde published selected interviews with recent converts to Islam in France. A number of male and female French Muslims recount their stories of conversion as well as the reactions of their families and immediate surroundings to their change of faith.
