News Agencies – March 28, 2012 Nearly 60 percent of the French say they distrust youth from the ‘banlieues’, France’s impoverished, immigrant-dominated suburbs, according to a new survey that has laid bare the country’s divisions. “The results are extremely worrying,” Thibault Renaudin, national secretary of Afev, the organization that published the poll. The poll conducted…
NEW YORK — The number of American mosques has increased dramatically in the last decade despite post 9/11 protests aimed at Muslim houses of worship, according to a new study. The new Islamic centers serve Muslims who moved into the suburbs and newer immigrants from Africa, Iraq and elsewhere. Researchers conducting the national count found…
News Agencies – February 20, 2012 French suburbs are becoming ‘Muslim land’, French journalist and historian Alexandre Adler told France Info. Adler also said that many French Muslims want this, and that he’s concerned about the self-administration against the State in those neighborhoods. Adler said the violence in the banlieues can’t be explained only…
RYE, N.Y. — Fifteen Muslims arrested after an amusement park scuffle in the New York City suburbs are set to have charges against them dismissed. A Rye Town Court judge told the defendants on Tuesday that their cases will be dropped if they stay out of trouble for two months. The disturbance at Playland Park…
News Agencies – January 15, 2012 French Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen lashed out at Qatar for investing in “Muslim” areas of French cities and for taking over Paris Saint-Germain football club. “I think this situation could be very dangerous,” she said. “We are letting a foreign country choose its investments with regard to…
