(European Conservative) From 1 January 2024, France will no longer accept the presence on its soil of “seconded imams,” i.e., foreign imams who are paid by a foreign country but reside and officiate in France. The measure, designed to reduce the influence […]
(Local) Teaching unions and anti-racism charities have demanded an inquiry after French police sent a request to schools for information on the number of pupils absent on the Muslim festival of Eid. The French government has confirmed that it asked for “an […]
(AFP) The Union of Mosques in France is suing the controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq for discrimination, hate speech and inciting violence in remarks to an interviewer, the organisation told AFP on Friday. Houellebecq, whose books sell in big numbers, penned the […]
(Radio France) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has confirmed that he has decided to drop his complaint against award-winning French writer Michel Houellebecq over “violent comments” targeting Muslims made during a recent interview. In a statement issued on Friday […]
(CBC) “This is our separatism.” Separatism — a word that has weight in many countries, notably Canada. Here the speaker was French, in fact it was French President Emmanuel Macron. The separatism he was talking about, in a major and long-delayed speech […]
(Anadolu) France’s upper house of the parliament on Thursday adopted a bill that prohibits mothers from wearing headscarf while accompanying the students on school trips. The bill was presented in the country’s senate by the conservative Republican party. The bill was passed […]
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