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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Turkey to open Imam training centre in Paris

News Agencies – September 7, 2012   A dedicated training institute for imams will be opened in Strasbourg as part of an agreement between France and Turkey.
 From January 2013, the “Free Faculty of Islamic Theology” will offer training courses for 30 French students, including women. The project, the first of its kind in France,…

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French Rapper Finds Identity in Islam

News Agencies – August 26, 2012   Leading a double life, reversion to Islam has saved French rapper Regis Fayette-Mikano from falling victim to heroin, murder and suicide that ended the lives of his close friends. Born in Paris, Abd Al Malik was raised in Neuhof, a neighborhood of Strasbourg, to a Catholic family. He…

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The Mosque of Strasbourg opens its doors for Ramadan

News Agencies – July 20, 2012   Said Aalla, the president of the new Mosque of Strasbourg announced to 2,500 faithful who attended Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan, “You have waited so long.” After 20 years of talk and six years of construction, the mosque was unveiled. The building will be officially…

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CFCM calls for action against racist insults in Tarascon, France

News Agencies – May 24, 2012 A leading French Muslim group says three mosques have been vandalized and is urging authorities to punish the perpetrators. The French Council of the Muslim Faith, or CFCM, said racist insults and Nazi slogans were scrawled on a mosque in the southeastern town of Tarascon and another in the…

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