New Agencies – December 19, 2010 Groups from across Europe gathered in Paris to give voice to increasingly pronounced anti-Islam sentiments on the continent. Claiming to represent a wide range of political opinion, from Marxists and feminists to hardcore secularists and right-wing activists, the groups said they would coordinate their fight against what they call…
News Agencies – December 11, 2010 The daughter of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who hopes to succeed her father as head of his Front National party, has compared Muslims praying in the street to the German occupation during World War II. Claiming that Islamic prayers are held in the streets in 10-15 locations…
The French party Front National is advertising their rightwing agenda on election posters that very much resemble those of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) during their campaign against minaret construction. The SVP’s poster showed a Muslim woman, almost completely veiled in black cloth, next to an “army” of minarets, covering the Swiss flag. The poster…
Le maire d’Orange Jacques Bompard, ex-Front-National, et adh_rent du Mouvement pour la France (MPF) a sollicit_ le p_fet du Vaucluse en vue de “l’interdiction du port du voile islamique” dans sa commune, dans un courrier rendu public mercredi. “J’ai l’honneur par la pr_sente de solliciter les serices de la pr_fecture afin d’_tudier en commun la…
Mayor of Orange Jacques Bompard, a memeber of the Movement for France and an ex-Front National, queried about the legal possibility of the prohibition of the Islamic veil in his community, in a letter made public Wednesday. “I have the honor of soliciting the services of the prefecture in order to study together the possibility…
