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‘The French government has no right’: CAIR slams Macron’s ‘ultimatum’ to Muslims Muslim-American civil rights group labels French president's order to establish 'National Council of Imams' under government parameters 'hypocritical and dangerous'

November 20, 2020 Sheren Khalel

(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s “attempt to dictate the principles of the Islamic faith” to French Muslim leaders, and his demand they “falsely state that Islam is an ‘apolitical religion.’” Macron on Wednesday […]

France’s Macron asks Muslim leaders to back ‘republican values’ charter

November 19, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to agree a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) 15 days to work with […]

At Thalys attack trial, passengers recount stopping gunman with bare hands

November 19, 2020 Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]

French children could get ID numbers to keep them from ‘the clutches of Islamists’ (LINK ONLY)

November 18, 2020 EoI News

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French court rules against Clint Eastwood testifying in train attack trial

November 18, 2020 Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) A French court has ruled that Clint Eastwood cannot testify during the trial of a suspected Islamist gunman, whose attack on a high-speed train was thwarted by three Americans, who later played themselves in a movie by the U.S. actor and […]

Over 2,000 migrants cleared from Paris camp amid Covid fears

November 17, 2020 Alice Lefebvre

(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the […]

Trial starts over foiled Paris train attack that inspired movie

November 16, 2020 Marie Dhumieres

(AFP) A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices went on trial in France Monday for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Hollywood legend […]

Macron criticizes media over coverage of Islamic extremism

November 15, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has called the New York Times media correspondent to criticize English-language coverage of France’s stance on Islamic extremism after recent attacks, arguing it amounts to “legitimizing” violence. “When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in […]

French migration policy ‘anything but lax,’ says interior minister ‘No president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron’ when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration, says Gérald Darmanin.

November 15, 2020 Zosia Wanat

(Politico) The French government’s migration policy is “anything but lax,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that “no president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron” when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration. Speaking to Le Parisien, Darmanin said […]

Trial to begin over foiled Paris train attack that inspired movie

November 13, 2020 Marie Dhumieres

(AFP) A Moroccan man goes on trial in France on Monday accused of an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago which was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Director Clint Eastwood, 90, […]

Attacker in Nice had picture of teacher’s killer: prosecutors

November 13, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who killed three people at a French church last month had a picture on his phone of the man who beheaded a teacher two weeks earlier, anti-terror prosecutors said Friday. In addition to the photograph of 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov […]

Five years after Paris attacks, France still scarred and back on alert

November 13, 2020 Richard Lough and Tangi Salaun

(Reuters) Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France’s deadliest attack, its prime minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence. The Nov. 13, 2015, rampage […]

European imam school ‘not feasible,’ says Paris mosque rector Chems-Eddine Hafiz said Charles Michel’s proposal was a ‘noble idea’ but not viable.

November 13, 2020 Pierre-Paul Bermingham

(Politico) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has described European Council President Charles Michel’s proposal to create a European imam training institute as “not feasible.” Visiting Austria earlier this week after the terror attack in Vienna, Michel suggested establishing an […]

Home Office ‘missed chance to stop rise in migrant boats’

November 11, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) The Home Office failed to stop a rise in migrant boats crossing the English Channel before it was too late, an independent inspector has said. Decisive action in late 2018 could have prevented crossings becoming “established,” David Bolt, the independent chief […]

France on edge five years after Paris attacks

November 11, 2020 Tiphaine Le Liboux and Alexandre Hielard

(AFP) Five years after a squad of jihadist killers carried out France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity, the country is again on its highest security alert following a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015, saw […]

Nearly 160 migrants attempt to cross Channel to UK

November 10, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Six boats carrying 159 people have been found by UK authorities as migrants continue to try to cross the English Channel. The Home Office released Tuesday’s figures and said authorities in France prevented about 30 people making the journey on the […]

Eight to stand trial over 2016 terror attack in Nice

November 10, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Seven men and a woman will stand trial in France for alleged links to the perpetrator of the 2016 attack in Nice that killed 86 people when he rammed a truck into Bastille Day revellers. The three main suspects, Mohamed Ghraieb, […]

Macron stirs controversy with defence of French secularism

November 10, 2020 Clare Byrne

(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron has stirred controversy even beyond the Muslim world with a staunch defence of the French model for secularism and integration of minorities in the wake of a string of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The approach of Macron […]

France, Germany push for tighter EU borders after attacks

November 10, 2020 Thomas Escritt and Matthieu Protard

(Reuters) France and Germany pushed on Tuesday to tighten European Union borders to head off what French President Emmanuel Macron called the “threat of terrorism” after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna within a month. The attacks […]

Migrants brought to UK as six boats intercepted

November 9, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) Eighty migrants in six boats have been intercepted by Border Force officials in the English Channel. The Home Office has confirmed that Border Force dealt with a series of incidents on Monday. Meanwhile, French authorities prevented about 50 people making the […]

Greece and France boost terror intelligence sharing

November 9, 2020 Yiannis Souliotis

(Kathimerini) Prompted by the recent attacks in Paris and Nice, Greece and France have agreed to boost intelligence sharing on known or suspected terrorists, Kathimerini understands. According to sources, the two sides will build a task force to monitor suspected extremists from […]

French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron (LINK ONLY)

November 8, 2020 EoI News

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French minister seeks to ease tensions over cartoons in Cairo visit

November 8, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after the furore surrounding the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Le Drian met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign […]

French police quiz child apologists of teacher’s beheading

November 7, 2020 John Leicester

(AP) Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists […]

French PM says ‘radical Islamism’ the ‘enemy’ after Nice attack

November 7, 2020 Claudine Renaud

(AFP) French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday lamented the killings of three people killed by a knife attacker in Mediterranean city Nice and named “radical Islamism” as an “enemy” for the country. “We know the enemy, it has not only been […]

France fines Islamic scholar for revealing rape accuser’s name

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Paris court on Friday fined Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan for disclosing the name of one of several women who have accused him of rape, violating a French law that protects alleged victims from “retaliation and harassment.” Ramadan, who denies the […]

Italy, France consider giving Tunisia migrant boat alerts

November 6, 2020 Frances D'Emilio

(AP) Italy and France are considering deploying sea or air craft to alert Tunisia to the departure of clandestine boats ferrying migrants north to Italian shores, like the young Tunisian man who is the chief suspect in a fatal knife attack at […]

Child among migrants to cross the English Channel

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A child was among 96 migrants to have crossed the Channel in the last two days. It is thought to be the first crossings in small boats since a family died attempting the journey. The Home Office says 56 people made […]

Three teens charged in French teacher’s beheading

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Three teenagers were indicted Friday in the murder of French history teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded last month after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed to his students during a free speech lesson, a judicial source told AFP. Two 18-year-old men and […]

France church attacker transferred to Paris

November 6, 2020 Unlisted Author

(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who was shot and seriously wounded after killing three people in a knife attack on a French church last month was flown Friday from the southern city of Nice to Paris for treatment. Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, was flown […]

Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect church

November 6, 2020 Angela Charlton

(AP) As a French-born Muslim, Elyazid Benferhat’s stomach turned when he heard about a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in Nice. Then he decided to act. A self-described man of peace and pragmatism, Benferhat and a friend gathered a group […]

French minister holds Tunisia talks on return of Islamist extremists

November 6, 2020 Caroline Nelly Perrot and Kaouther Larbi

(AFP) Tunisia said Friday it would take back from France its citizens suspected of being radical Islamists, after last week’s deadly attack in Nice allegedly carried out by a Tunisian jihadist. But Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine, following talks with his visiting French […]

Europe must strengthen its borders after attacks, says Macron

November 5, 2020 Richard Lough and Michel Rose

(Reuters) Europe must rethink its open-border Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone’s external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria. The tighter controls were needed to curb clandestine […]

Trudeau speaks with Macron amid furor over his response to attacks in France

November 5, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free expression in a call with the president of France on Thursday, his office says. The conversation with France’s Emmanuel Macron came one week after three people were killed in a deadly knife assault in […]

Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing

November 5, 2020 Nicolas Vaux-Montagny

(AP) A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State […]

Muslims want Borat posters stripped from Paris buses (LINK ONLY)

November 4, 2020 EoI News

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Christchurch imam Gamal Fouda calls for French president Macron to take lead from NZ after terror attacks

November 3, 2020 Kurt Bayer

(NZ Herald) The leader of a Christchurch mosque where 42 Muslims were shot dead last year has denounced the recent attacks in France and called on French president Emmanuel Macron to take a lesson from New Zealand’s response to extremist violence. Two […]

France honours slain teacher as school resumes

November 2, 2020 Stuart Williams

(AFP) France on Monday honoured the teacher beheaded near his school by a suspected Islamist radical as millions of students returned to class after a spate of attacks that have put the country on edge. Schoolchildren across France observed a minute of […]

Migrants are being smuggled across the Channel for as little as £400-a-head (LINK ONLY)

November 1, 2020 EoI News

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More arrests as French Catholics pray in shadow of attack in Nice

November 1, 2020 Vincent-Xavier Morvan and Stuart Williams

(AFP) French Catholics on Sunday celebrated the All Saints religious festival under heavy security, as police made two new arrests over an attack on a church in the southern city of Nice blamed on an Islamist knifeman. Three people were killed in […]

French Muslims, stigmatized by attacks, feel under pressure

November 1, 2020 Elaine Ganley

(AP) The pressure rises with each gruesome attack. After three in five weeks, France’s Muslims are feeling squeezed. A spotlight of suspicion was trained on them again even before the latest acts of extremist violence, including two beheadings. President Emmanuel Macron has […]

Members of Syrian Community Centre of Windsor protest, condemn France over Muhammad cartoons The group of about 30 held up signs condemning French President Emmanuel Macron

October 31, 2020 Unlisted Author

(CBC) Members of the Syrian Community Centre of Windsor gathered outside city hall on Friday to protest France’s reaction to Muhammad cartoons. The group of about 30 held up signs condemning French President Emmanuel Macron for recent “anti-Muslim comments” and his staunch […]

Spanish police arrest man for praising attack near Paris

October 31, 2020 Graham Keeley

(Reuters) A Moroccan man was arrested in Barcelona for praising the beheading of a French schoolteacher outside Paris this month and inciting more attacks, police said on Saturday. The man, who was not named and who was detained on Friday, posted messages […]

Macron says he understands Muslims’ shock over prophet cartoons In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, French President Emmanuel Macron says he understands the ‘sentiments’ being expressed by the Muslim world over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.

October 31, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Al-Jazeera) French President Emmanuel Macron says he understands the feelings of Muslims who are shocked by the displaying of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad but added that the “radical Islam” he is trying to fight is a threat to all people, especially Muslims. […]

Man arrested over deaths of Iranian Kurd family in Channel sinking (LINK ONLY)

October 30, 2020 EoI News

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Police break up protest outside London’s French embassy as Muslims demonstrate against ‘disrespect of Muhammad’ (LINK ONLY)

October 30, 2020 EoI News

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New York mosques to protest Macron’s ‘blatant disrespect of the prophet’

October 30, 2020 Steven Emerson

(IPT) A consortium of New York mosques plans to protest at the French Consulate in Manhattan this Sunday to express their rage at Emmanuel Macron’s support for publishing caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad. “The French President is directly provoking the Muslim world […]

Never flagged as a danger, Nice attacker traveled unimpeded

October 30, 2020 Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Trisha Thomas

(AP) The 21-year-old Tunisian behind the attack that killed three in a Nice, France, church had small-time run-ins with the law as a teen, but nothing that alerted Tunisian authorities to possible extremist leanings. That missing red flag meant that when he […]

Party wants to print Mohammed cartoons in Danish newspapers Nye Borgerlige head Pernille Vermund said there is no room for compromise when the freedom of speech is on the line

October 30, 2020 Christian W

(Copenhagen Post) Earlier this month, the French school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered after he had shown the Mohammed cartoons — famously printed in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 — to his students. And then yesterday, three people were killed in the Notre […]

Terrorists not Muslims, says ex-French president Details emerge on attacker who killed 3 people in Nice

October 30, 2020 Cindi Cook

(Anadolu) The terrorists must not be confused with Muslims, former French President Francois Hollande warned Friday. “These Islamist terrorists want there to be a war between religions,” Hollande said while reacting to the deadly knife attack in Nice city, which left three […]