News Agencies – February 28, 2012 Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight for being too emancipated. A man was being held by police after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris. Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman’s face and then covered her…
Le Parisien – May 13, 2011 According to the CRCM Rhone-Alps (the regional representative of the CFCM, the French Council of the Muslim Faith), 84% of mosques in the region, which includes the Mosque of Lyon, will not participate in the June elections of the CFCM. Associations in the region had until May 11 to…
April 20, 2011 Two-thirds of French people see the integration of immigrants into France as a failure and most believe the fault lies with the immigrants, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. In the poll by Harris Interactive, published in the daily Le Parisien, 66% of respondents said immigrants had adapted badly to life in…
A new poll published by Le Parisien claims that 54 percent of the French see Muslim religious practice as compatible with social life in France. 8 percent of respondents claimed that it was “rather not compatible” while 4 percent did not respond.
This article in Le Parisien notes that despite approximately 6 million Muslims in France, there are only 80 burial grounds that are suitable for proper Muslim burial in the country.
