News Agencies – December 14, 2011 Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman of North African origin to hold a senior French government post, focused a public complaint against the prime minister, François Fillon, in whose cabinet she served as justice minister. Fillon, she wrote in a scathing letter to Le Monde, represented a staid…
News Agencies – October 6, 2011 Local communities in France’s immigrant suburbs increasingly organize themselves on Islamic lines rather than following the values of the secular republic, according to a major new sociological study by political scientist Gilles Kepel. Kepel led a team of researchers in a year-long project in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, two…
A recent opinion poll conducted by Ifop found that 42 per cent of French people consider the Muslim community a threat. The survey, published in Le Monde, also found that 68 per cent feel that Muslims are not well integrated into French society. 22 per cent of people who think that the Muslim community enriches…
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…
News Agencies – December 2, 2010 A Paris court has acquitted the far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen of charges of racism over campaign posters for his National Front party. The court said Thursday that Mr. Le Pen, left, was not personally responsible for the posters, reading “No to Islamism” and featuring a woman in a…
