PARIS – French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France. But now they are speaking out – and being called on to take a larger role ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images France is ...
French society has witnessed a sharp escalation in Islamophobia in recent years, along with many anti-Muslim policies.
Editor's note: This blog is the third of three blogs on the subject of laïcité (French secularism). The first was "Mister Prime Minister, Don’t Liberate Us": Secularism and Muslim Women in France" and ...
The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination that is driving increasing numbers of Muslims to leave the country. One ...
For some young Muslims, the proposal is simply a further sign of the French majority’s unwillingness to accept cultural differences. Majda, a student of Arabic at the National Institute for Oriental ...
Thousands of France’s Muslims gathered at the Great Mosque of Paris after Friday prayer to denounce the "barbaric" acts of ISIL and condemn the execution of a French national this week in Algeria. The ...
Just a week after the deadly terror attacks in Paris, many of France's Muslims fear a backlash from the state and right-wing politicians even more than they fear ...
PARIS -- French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France. But now they are speaking out -- and being called on to take a larger ...