France boosts embassy security over Muhammad cartoon

News Agencies – September 19, 2012   The French government stepped up security at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, inflaming global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam. The move by the provocative weekly Charlie Hebdo followed days of violent protests from…

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Islam is part of France: Interior Minister

News Agencies – September 28, 2012   Confirming Islam as part of France, the country’s socialist government has vowed to do more to integrate the religious minority, warning it will not tolerate radical members in the French society. “Islam has its place in France because the Islam of France, it is a part of France,”…

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Toronto group hopes to screen anti-Islam film in name of tolerance

News Agencies – September 14, 2012   A group in Toronto says it wants to screen a controversial film that depicts the prophet Muhammad as a womanizer and a madman. Canadian Hindu Advocacy spokesman Ron Banerjee says he doesn’t yet have a location for a screening. Excerpts from the movie enraged Islamic protesters in Egypt,…

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Trial of Mohammed Merah’s brother in France

News Agencies – September 10, 2012   French judges grilled the brother of Mohammed Merah, the al Qaeda-inspired terrorist who carried out a series of deadly shootings in Toulouse last March. Abdelkader Merah has denied being complicit in his brother’s deadly acts and has told judges he had no part in the series of deadly…

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Canada closes embassy in Iran

News Agencies – September 7, 2012   The Canadian Harper government has closed the Canadian Embassy in Iran and ordered all Iranian diplomats in Canada to leave the country. The move effectively severs ties with the Islamic Republic after years of increasingly tense relations marked by accusations, warnings and sanctions. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in…

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