A dozen of Muslim men stood outside a church in France to protect Christians from any potential attacks during midnight Christmas Mass on Thursday. Members of the Muslim community in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), northern France, arrived in one of the city’s churches to guard Christians, while they prayed and enjoyed their midnight mass on such a…
The French authorities have conducted more than 2,700 police raids under a nationwide state of emergency instituted after last month’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris. Using extraordinary powers granted by France’s National Assembly, officers have conducted searches without warrants of dozens of homes, arrested hundreds of people and have even shut down mosques and prayer…
Demonstrators ransacked a Muslim prayer hall and set fire to copies of the Koran on the French island of Corsica on Christmas Day, in an attack condemned by the government. The violence came amid heightened security measures for the holiday, and nationwide fears after the November 13 attacks by jihadists that killed 130 people. Manuel…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A prominent imam speaking at Harvard University on Thursday rejected the notion of a fundamental “clash of civilizations” between the Muslim World and the West and called for greater cultural understanding. The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of some 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, told a packed audience that society must strive to…
France’s leading Muslim body said on Tuesday it would create a permit to preach for imams in a bid to root out extremists, as well as a new religious body to fight back against jihadist propaganda. Anouar Kbibech, president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM), said the country’s imams should be given…
