This article in Le Figaro profiles the challenges faced by Drancy Tunisian-born imam, Hassen Chalghoumi. Chalghoumi claims he has invested a great deal of effort into fostering dialogue between Muslims and Jews, a position which has been saluted by the President of the Republic but is not welcome by all members of his community. The…
According to this special news report from Le Figaro, between 300-400 French Muslims move to Dubai and Abu Dhabi annually to find work and live in a Muslim-majority country. The article follows a 27 year-old Muslim of Algerian-origin from the outskirts of Paris who, at the end of 2006, having gone through Egypt to learn…
Police found explosives in a Paris department store after a written tip to AFP (Agence France-Press) from a group demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan. The group called itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front; they were not previously known to French security services and did not mention Islam. The five explosives were not primed…
Vandals daubed swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on graves of French Muslim War veterans in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, France. About 500 of the 576 Muslim graves were defaced on the eve of Islam’s Eid al-Adha feast. President Nicolas Sarkozy called the incident “abject and revolting.” The vandalism marks the third time in the past two years that Muslim…
Europe’s top human rights court held the 2004 French ban on wearing the hijab in public schools and government offices. Two French Muslim girls, 11 and 12 who had been expelled from school in 1999 launched the complaint, claiming their school violated their freedom of religion and their right to an education. The European Court…
