News Agencies – January 13, 2012 Speaking in Paris at her first campaign rally, Green presidential candidate Eva Joly argued that national holiday status should be accorded to the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Fitr and the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Currently six of the 12 national holidays in France are Catholic calendar events,…
News Agencies – January 6, 2012 Little Mosque on the Prairie, the gentle CBC satire about a Muslim community in the fictional small town of Mercy, Sask., that will be entering its sixth and final season on Monday. “We all know, in this industry, that every show has a life span,” says Manoj Sood who…
News Agencies – January 5, 2012 A second attack in three days on a local mosque is prompting renewed calls for a hate-crime investigation from a Canadian Muslim organization. The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations urged the move after the mosque was found spray painted with hate messages earlier this week. The attack follows the…
News Agencies – January 5, 2012 With a roof designed to look like a floating sheet of silk, a reference to the Islamic headscarf, a new wing of the Louvre housing Islamic art is nearing completion. The project to house the Paris museum’s well-regarded collection of Islamic objects was launched by former president Jacques Chirac…
News Agencies – January 2, 2012 France’s interior minister says that since a ban on face-covering Islamic veils took effect in April only six women have been convicted and fined. Claude Gueant said in an interview that no woman has been sent to a citizenship class — another potential punishment. Gueant says police cited…
