Paris Muslims offered disused barracks to move prayers from streets

News Agencies – August 8, 2011   Muslims who have been praying in the streets of a Paris neighbourhood have been offered a disused barracks to pray in, French Interior Minister Claude Guéant has announced. Muslim leaders have visited the site and agreed that it is suitable, he said. “Praying in the street is something…

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Poll suggests that Muslims in France are increasingly devout

News Agencies – August 1, 2011   French newspaper La Croix has released survey data that suggests that there are more practicing Muslims in France than 20 years ago. An IFOP poll shows that 71% France’s Muslims intend to fast for the entire month of Ramadan. The survey suggests that the intention to participate in…

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Montreal Muslim Community Rallies Following Terror Charges

News Agencies –August 28, 2010 The Islamic Community Centre of Brossard, Quebec is a modest presence on a working class street, opposite a tire shop. Members are responding to the recent anti-terror arrests in Ottawa. Two of the three men charged in an alleged Ottawa-based terror plot worshipped here. Both Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, an Ottawa…

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‘Allah Akbar’ gargoyle include on the Lyon cathedral

News Agencies – August 23, 2010 A new gargoyle was placed on the exterior of the Lyon cathedral in honor of Benzizine Ahmed, the Muslim foreman who led the restoration work on the cathedral tower. Below the gargoyle a message – “Allah Akbar” (God is greatest) in both Arabic and French – is inscribed. The…

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Man Attacked in Lyon, France for Eating During Daylight Hours in Month of Ramadan

News Agencies – August 24, 2010 A man of Senegalese-origin from Vénissieux was eating breakfast on the terrace of a restaurant in the center of Lyon on the weekend of August 15th when three youth jumped him because he didn’t observe the fast of Ramadan. He was hit on the head with a glass bottle,…

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