Woman planning to join Islamic State arrested at Madrid’s Barajas Airport

A 22-year-old woman was arrested at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport on Monday night, on suspicion that she was planning to fly to Turkey to join the militant group Islamic State (ISIS), Interior Ministry sources have told EL PAÍS. The woman is originally from a village in Huelva, in southern Spain, and had converted to Islam…

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French youths criticize anti-jihad push: ‘We thought it was a joke’

Six months after France launched an online campaign to tackle jihadist recruitment, FRANCE 24’s Observers decided to take stock of the government’s controversial initiative. Mourad Benchellali,  an ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate who helps young people integrate themselves into society, took his mobile phone and went to sound out the unfiltered opinions of five young men for FRANCE…

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Viral video of French ‘Muslim no-go zone’ is a fake

Under a torrent of projectiles and verbal abuse, a group of policemen flee a housing project in a notorious French ‘banlieue’, or suburb, near Paris. At least, that’s what a video that’s recently made the rounds on social media networks would like you to believe. But the truth is that the clip is taken from…

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Marmiton website flooded with insults after publishing ‘Ramadan recipes’

A culinary site was flooded by Islamophobic comments after offering recipes for Ramadan which began June 18. The controversy began after a simple comment posted on the first day. The site marmiton.org, which has more than 60,000 recipes, published a list of recipes for Ramadan. “Today is the first day of Ramadan. Here is our…

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French app hopes to link Muslim faithful with prayer sites

They simply wanted a place to pray, as required five times a day for faithful Muslims. But in France, that’s not necessarily simple.   The country has relatively few Muslim prayer spaces compared with the population — one for every 1,200 by some estimates — and a group of five friends from a variety of…

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