(Anadolu) A court in France suspended a controversial ban on burkini swimsuits in a seaside town, local media reported. The country’s Human Rights League (LDH) had taken to court the Frejus administration’s decision to ban burkini swimwear on public beaches. The Toulon […]
(Anadolu) Two Islamic schools have been closed down in France’s southern city of Montpellier, according to local media reports. Officials carried out unannounced checks at the two schools on Tuesday and ordered the administrations to shut them down, news outlet Actu.fr reported […]
(Anadolu) France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen has demanded more mosques be closed in the country. Her demand comes despite the closure of 24 mosques in France in the past two years upon the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. In an […]
(Anadolu) France announced it will close another mosque, accusing the imam of being radicalized, according to media reports Wednesday. The Interior Ministry has started the process of closing the Obernai Mosque in the Bas-Rhin area, according to French BFM TV and Le […]
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some […]
(Anadolu) The controversial anti-separatism bill in France limits the existence and rights of Muslims, a French Muslim human rights activist said on Sunday. “The anti-separatism bill completely limits the right to organization and the existence of Muslims as people who have Islamic […]
(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
(Anadolu) France’s Senate approved the addition of a ban on religious practices in university corridors to a controversial bill to fight “Islamist separatism” late Wednesday. Discussing the draft bill, which has been criticized for alienating Muslims, the center-right Republicans (LR) party proposed […]
(Anadolu) A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which was announced earlier by the nation’s president as the fight against Islamist separatism. The bill was introduced Oct. 2 by Emmanuel Macron to fight so-called “Islamist […]
(Anadolu) French police raided Wednesday the home of Muslim NGO BarakaCity’s founder and arrested him, the organization, which broadcast the raid live on its social channels, said. Idriss Sihamedi, the NGO’s president, was beaten up and arrested in front of his four […]
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