Former French President Jacques Chirac has emerged as a spokesperson of sorts for Holocaust instruction in Muslim countries. Chirac’s popularity in parts of the Arab world and his history of making clear statements about France’s responsibility in the World War II destruction of Europe’s Jews accords him, according to this IHT feature, a unique place…
Mohammed Moussaoui, current president of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith), noted at the beginning of Ramadan that hundreds of religious leaders, largely from Morrocco but also from Algeria and Turkey, arrived to assist in prayers in France’s 1800 mosques. Their training, along with the financing of Islam in France, remain the primary…
Brian Knowlton IHT WASHINGTON U.S. officials will soon release five of the nine British citizens detained at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the British government announced Thursday. All were captured while allegedly fighting alongside Taliban militants against U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan A Spaniard was returned Friday to Spain, where he reportedly…
