February 19, 2020France’s Macron announces ‘crack down’ on ‘Islamist separatism’ – EuroNewsFrench President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that France would crack down on Islamist separatism and would end […]
February 11, 2014France’s tough stance on female genital mutilation is working, say campaigners.France’s tough stance on female genital mutilation is working, say campaigners. Dr. Emmanuelle Piet says tiptoeing around religious […]
August 14, 2012Police unions in France are furious after three officers were injured trying to check the identity of a woman flouting the country’s burka ban and who was later released to “appease tensions during Ramadan”.Police unions in France are furious after three officers were injured trying to check the identity of a […]
June 4, 2012Guinean couple charged in France for genital mutilationA couple of Guinean origin went on trial here Tuesday accused of carrying out what France considers genital […]
April 10, 2011British Muslims arrested in burka ban protest in FranceA British Muslim radical has been permanently banned from France as the country steps up security before the […]
March 3, 2011Ban on wearing full veils to come into effect in AprilFrench authorities will begin enforcing a new ban on wearing full Islamic veils in public in April, officials […]
February 10, 2011Multiculturalism has failed, says French presidentFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Thursday that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or […]
November 5, 2010Religious demands rise in French state schools: studyMuslim school students and parents in France are increasingly making religious demands on the state school system that […]
July 13, 2010French National Assembly Approves Burqa BanThe lower house of the French parliament has voted in favor of banning the burqa in public, the […]
July 9, 2010France denies citizenship to man who refused to shake hands of womenA Moroccan man who refused to shake hands with a French female official and whose wife wears the […]
June 13, 2010Woman fined for erratic driving caused by veilPolice in the city of Vaucluse (Southern France) have fined a woman driver for erratic driving caused by […]
June 9, 2010French Muslim ‘polygamist’ charged with welfare fraudA French Muslim butcher at the centre of a firestorm over polygamy was charged on Wednesday with welfare […]
June 2, 2010France to bar polygamy, sharia on Mayotte islandsNew polygamous marriages and sharia courts will be banned on France’s Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte when it […]
May 19, 2010Sarkozy calls burqa ban bill a ‘moral’ choiceFrench President Nicolas Sarkzoy has defended a draft government bill to ban full Islamic veils such as the […]
May 19, 2010France moves one step closer to burqa banThe French Council of Ministers approved a measure Wednesday to ban the wearing of full-face veils, sending the […]
May 19, 2010France: Burqa debate turns into fistfightA debate organised by “Ni putes ni soumises”, a French NGO, Tuesday night in Paris, on the question […]
May 4, 2010Tearing Away the VeilIn the New York Times, the mayor of Meaux (France), Jean-Francois Cope argues that banning the burqa affirms […]
May 3, 2010Europe must defend free expressionUrging European countries to defend freedom of expression vigorously, Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, writes: […]
May 2, 2010Some profit from wives despite French polygamy banExperts say polygamy in France can also be linked to fraud, where husbands hijack a generous social welfare […]
April 23, 2010Most French want burqa law, but not total banTwo-thirds of French people want a law limiting the use of face-covering Islamic veils such as the niqab […]