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Byline: Ashifa Kassam in Lyon They marched through the narrow streets of Lyon's medieval old town, about three dozen of them, emboldened after the French far-right gains in the European [...]

Byline: Rokhaya Diallo France is home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim populations. Inevitably, what is happening in the Middle East has a particular resonance here. The grotesque images that [...]

Byline: Catherine Fieschi As a dual citizen of France and Canada, I never cease to be amazed by the depth of misunderstanding there is about French attitudes to religion. France's [...]

Byline: Kim Willsher The backlash against Emmanuel Macron following his insistence that publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad caricatures is fundamental to freedom of speech has spread, with angry [...]

Surging numbers of coronavirus cases in many parts of the world overshadowed the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Tuesday, with festivities curtailed by fears of contagion. [...]

Byline: Constant Méheut For many immigrant families, the pandemic has halted the tradition of repatriating bodies to their country of origin, and finding a plot in France has become ever [...]

The leaders of the French Council of the Muslim Faith have signed a charter in which they agreed to administer additional controls, notably on the appointment of religious leaders.They met [...]

Byline: Andi Grene On Nov. 19, French president Emmanuel Macron asked the French Council of the Muslim Faith to sign a charter prohibiting Islam from being politicized and restricting 'foreign [...]

Byline: James McAuley PARIS -- The French government is bristling at international criticism of its response to recent Islamist terrorist attacks, accusing foreign leaders and journalists of misrepresenting an attempt [...]

France's Muslim community is 'horrified...profoundly shocked' by the killing of Samuel Paty, according to Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. He said the teacher's brutal [...]

PARIS, October 17, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Muslims and community leaders in France on Saturday condemned the killing of a teacher in a Paris suburb, calling for not associating [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron has said 'political islam' has 'no place' in France during a visit Tuesday to Mulhouse, in northeastern France, where he outlined the ... The government's plan [...]

London: London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Government has issued the following news release: Dr Joseph Downing, a lecturer in the European Institute, has spent many years living [...]

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday urged France's Muslim community to step up the fight against 'separatism' as he toughened his rhetoric against Islamic radicalism in the wake of a ... [...]

NICE, France-Sir Elton John's enormous cream-colored villa on Mont Boron looms high in the distance, visible from the dingy flats of this cité, or housing project, in northeast Nice called [...]

NICE, France-Sir Elton John's enormous cream-colored villa on Mont Boron looms high in the distance, visible from the dingy flats of this cité, or housing project, in northeast Nice called [...]

2020 APR 2 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- Research findings on Global Views - Middle East Women's Studies are discussed in [...]

Byline: Sophie Pollock Foreign film shown on campus prompts conversation Sophie Pollock Associate Reporter February 15, 2018 The Modern Languages department recently hosted Karim Miské for a screening of his [...]

Byline: Sam Webb The terror monster who calmly executed innocent music fans at a concert hall during the Paris attacks has spoken for a final time in a sickening propaganda [...]

Byline: Emily Badger PARIS - The mournful sermon in the Mosque Tawhid at Friday prayers was about the attacks, because it is hard now to speak of anything else and [...]

Byline: ERNA PARIS Author of Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair and other works on French cultural history Many are searching for reasons for last week's terrorist attacks [...]

Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI kyakabuski@globeandmail.com The streets of Paris are no strangers to mass bloodshed. The City of Light has borne witness to more than its share of extreme violence over [...]

Byline: Emily Badger DRANCY, France - The suburbs of Paris where many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants live are dotted with mosques in unexpected places. They're tucked behind shopping [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple WASHINGTON - Yasser Louati is a representative for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France. And in an early Sunday morning interview, he became a representative for the [...]

Byline: Ian Jack Somewhere towards the end of the last century I took part in a literary festival in the beautiful old town of St Malo. No expense had been [...]

Byline: Kim Yi Dionne;Claire Adida In the second installment of this year's African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, we depart the continent for a book on the integration of Muslims in [...]

When asked if she would vote for the centrist Emmanuel Macron over the far-right Marine Le Pen in a possible runoff for the French presidency, Nadia Henni-Moulai could only muster [...]

THE France that endured a vicious terrorist attack last week is a France that has suffered, for decades and centuries, from anxieties about its own decline. And for good reason: [...]

CHATRES, FRANCE -- The following information was released by the Voice of America (VOA): Nationalists in France are the latest group to get a boost from anti-immigrant sentiment seen rising [...]

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls issued a stern rebuke to the New York Times on Monday after the newspaper published an article he claimed painted a 'false' and 'intolerable' picture [...]

PARIS, Aug 03, 2016 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Muslim community in France has a key role in preventing radicalization of youth attracted by online terror propaganda, but it's up [...]

A new foundation will be created to help finance mosques in France and keep out radical donors, the head of France's top Muslim body said Monday, days after the prime [...]

In the poor Nice suburb of Ariane, many Muslims feel their community is being unfairly blamed for the Bastille Day attack that killed 84 people, and fear discrimination and social [...]

In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, French Muslims -- from anonymous Internet users to heads of organisations -- are calling for unity from their fellow Muslims in denouncing terrorism. [...]

Byline: Emily Badger PARIS -- The mournful sermon in the Mosque Tawhid at Friday prayers was about the attacks, because it is hard now to speak of anything else and [...]

France is in mourning. Struck by a carnage that killed 129 innocent people and injured more than 300, the country is now recovering from the worst attacks it experienced since [...]

After the recent Paris attacks, the questions of free speech and blasphemy are no longer on the table for a French Muslim community that appears to have found a unified [...]

By all accounts, Samia Hathroubi's story is one of success. The 30-year-old French-Tunisian human rights activist was born and raised in France; her parents arrived in the country in the [...]

Byline: Emily Badger DRANCY, France -- The suburbs of Paris where many North African and Middle Eastern immigrants live are dotted with mosques in unexpected places. They're tucked behind shopping [...]

Byline: Erik Wemple Yasser Louati is a representative for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France. And in an early Sunday morning interview, he became a representative for the Collective Against [...]

Nov 16, 2015 (Egypt State Information Service/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Egypt's Mufti Shawky Allam deplored Friday's terror attacks on Paris which left over 100 people dead. In [...]

The so-called caliphate has a special hatred for 'apostate' Muslims who adopt Western ways--and declared them special targets of the Paris attacks. PARIS -- Although officials have been slow to [...]

Byline: John Sides We will soon feature a range of perspectives about the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday. Here I want to highlight some of our previous content that [...]

Muslims in France are once again in doubt over the exact date that the holy month of Ramadan begins, with two competing schools of thought on how the date should [...]

Byline: Griff Witte VINCENNES, France -- This city's first Muslim doctor doesn't look Muslim. Or at least, he doesn't look or act how people expect a Muslim should. Fair-skinned and [...]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- The following information was released by the University of California - Santa Cruz: As the world deals with the aftermath of the Islamic terror attack on [...]

In the two weeks after the attacks on the satirical magazine in Paris, French Muslims were victimized more than in all of 2014 Community leaders in France had been sounding [...]

French Muslims in Marseille, France have not participated in the country-wide rioting. However the peace is on edge, as this Muslim community experiences the same underemployment and poor conditions of other French Muslim communities. The difference is in the funding of French Muslim charitable and religious associations as instituted by Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin that defuses tension and encourages dialogue with the ethnic population.