The construction of Mosques (and especially the Minaret) in Europe (and to a lesser extent in the United States) often attracts fierce opposition by locals. Far-right...

The Great Mosque of Paris A lot has been written about France’s difficulties in assimilating its large North African community - especially after the 2005 suburban...

The product of French racism and obtuse labor law. Racism is present in every society, and French racism against Arabs is ubiquitous; but the setting in which it...

The Great Mosque of Paris A lot has been written about France’s difficulties in assimilating its large North African community - especially after the 2005...

A lot has been written about France’s difficulties in assimilating its large North African community - especially after the 2005 suburban riots. The literature often...

Schools across France are facing revolts from students demanding the right to wear raunchy clothing banned by educators. The protests, which some observers say signals...

Ugly words on the playground were his first hurtful clue. At age 12, a furtive glance at a medical record deepened Jean-Jacques Delorme’s doubts about who he...

France refused Monday to release an Iranian agent jailed for the murder of a former prime minister in exchange for the freedom of a young French academic charged with...

A Mosque was recently vandalized in France - home to western Europe’s largest Muslim population numbered at 5-6 million or 10% of the population. When Muslim...

Because of severe winter weather in France (I’m sure someone will somehow try and blame this on global warming) 4 Eurostar trains, carrying more than 2,000...

“So people want to keep Kyoto, OK let’s keep Kyoto. But let us agree on an overall political umbrella,” he said in a speech to delegates. The EU...

An Australian hospital has identified a spike in violent “werewolf” patients when there is a full moon.

An all-singing and all-dancing video by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right political party has become the mocking buzz of the month on French-language...

Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, as racist. The highly outspoken Morano, who is a member of...

France has been stunned by the fate of la petite Typhaine, a little girl lost in a disturbing saga of parental brutality, brazen lies and the failings of the social...

Falling short of outright banning the burqa (full Islamic veil), at least for now, France has made a statement that any man whose wife is forced to wear a burqa or...

So Nicolas Sarkozy, responding to the minaret ban in Switzerland, admonishes us to practise our faiths with “humble discretion”. To be recommended humble...

Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid...

Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the...

European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama’s speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming...