News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
By Hadi Yahmid PARIS – Parisians are used now to seeing a decorated motorcade carrying a young Muslim groom and his bride to a mosque to tie the knot under Shari`ah terms as many Muslims are keen on striking a balance between civil and Islamic marriages. “Shari`ah-compliant marriages are booming in France,” Daw Meskin, the
By Hadi Yahmid PARIS – France is waking up to the reality that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s tough line on immigration during his election campaign was no rhetoric, with a new bill restricting immigration under the family reunions law just waiting for the new parliament to be elected. “This new bill gives more credence to our
By Hadi Yahmid PARIS – French of immigrant background are running in large numbers in the country’s cut-throat legislative race, hoping to be represented in the 577-member legislature to have their voices heard. “Candidates of immigrant background are highly tipped as possible lawmakers in an unprecedented way in French history,” candidate Malika Ahmed told IslamOnline.net
By Hadi Yahmid PARIS, April 27 (IslamOnline.net) – A French court quashed Monday, April 26, a government decision to deport an Imam to his native Algeria for statements seen by the secular country as violence-inciting. “The ruling has done justice to Imam Abdelkader Bouziane, given the expulsion was neither convincing nor justifiable,” his lawyer Mahmmoud