French president Nicolas Sarkozy is scheduled to visit the vandalized Muslim tombs in the military cemetery at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in the Pas-de-Calais on April 24th. The visit will coincide with the 90th anniversary commemoration of the end of the First World War, and was announced following Sarkozy’s meeting with a delegation from the Muslim community organized…
148 Muslim tombs were desecrated with anti-Islamic and insults against Rachida Dati in the military cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette in the Pas-de-Calais in Northern France. Numerous French officials, including Nicolas Sarkozy, Fran_ois Fillon, Rachida Dati and Mich_le Alliot-Marie have pronounced their condemnation of the act. The incident took place almost exactly a year after 52 other…
Jean-Pierre Denis, director of the weekly Christian publication La Vie (Life) suggests that France has not been civilized on the question of religion for a great deal of time and questions whether Nicolas Sarkozy has realized this point. Denis notes that, I sense that anti-Christian positions are on the rise and are much more virulent…
{On June 4, 2007, Tariq Ramadan wrote an editorial for the Guardian entitled, “Blair can no longer deny a link exists between terrorism and foreign policy.” He argued the debate around the [unwillingness of Muslims to integrate obscures attention from the need for British society to come to terms with its “self-professed values.” The next…
ROME, FEB. 25, 2004 (Zenit.org)- Vatican and Muslim representatives meeting in Rome agreed on the need to engage in “self-criticism and to struggle against stereotypes and generalizations.” “Religious persons must be more careful not to generalize,” said Sheikh Fawzi Fadel al-Zafzaf, president of the Al-Azhar Permanent Committee for Dialogue with Monotheist Religions, and a co-president…
