Le Figaro – May 4, 2011 Authorities in the Rhone have forbidden a “March of Pigs” which had been organized in Lyon for Saturday, May 14 claiming that the activity counters secular values and could cause public disorder. Organizers of the march positioned themselves against the expansion of the halal meet market in France and…
News Agencies – November 26, 2010 A practice teacher in Tournefeuille, near Toulouse, refused to remove her headscarf when teaching to primary public school children and has been fired. The young woman whose identity has not been released is a recent convert to Islam and has demonstrated no intention to appeal the decision. She has…
Le Figaro – November 8, 2010 French Jewish and Muslim communities recently met over couscous in Ris-Orangis (in Essonne) as part of a weekend of gatherings related to Judeo-Islamic friendship (the AJMF or l’amitié judéo-musulmane de France). The principle behind the gatherings is to meet within each other’s places of worship to share, exchange ideas…
Le Figaro – August 18, 2010 Beginning on the 1st of September, French fastfood chain Quick will add 14 additional restaurants to offer halal food options. Restaurants in Toulouse, Argenteuil and Garges-les-Gonesse (Val d’Oise), Buchelay (Yvelines), Villeurbanne (Rhône), Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Roubaix (Nord) already offer halal hamburgers and smoked turkey in the place of bacon.
This article from Le Figaro Magazine includes passages from a new book Sous Mon Niqab [Under my Niqab] by Zeina (Plon, 2010), a young Muslim woman who sought to be liberated from her niqab in France.
