PARIS — Post Opinion columnist Rokhaya Diallo, a French civil rights advocate, recently became part of a news story in France, after she endured harassment on social media by French people who ...
One morning in May, residents of the small French city of Orléans woke up to stickers slapped onto light poles, park benches, and other street furniture. “Muslim-restricted area,” the stickers read — ...
STORY: ABDERAHIM: "They stayed there, and they made sacrifices so that we could come here...” It wasn't easy for Abderahim Denguir and his sister to attend France's largest Muslim private school, ...
EVERY FEW years the French get worked up about an item of religious clothing that they deem inappropriate in the classroom. This time a controversy has broken out at la rentrée, the start of the new ...
Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year, the Averroès school group in Lille, which is also the largest private ...
MARSEILLE, France — No ordinary preacher, El Hadi Doudi is perhaps France’s leading proponent of fundamentalist Islam. His influence extends throughout Europe, where his lawyer says the cleric is the ...
France warned its citizens in several Muslim-majority countries to take extra security precautions on Tuesday as anger surged over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, and the head of Russia's Chechnya ...
PARIS (AP) — As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith ...
POISSY, France -- Some dressed in dark suits and others in robes, Muslim men lined up to vote Sunday in the first election of an official council to represent their community in France. Gathering in a ...
French Muslims face a decision between Emmanuel Macron, whose presidency some of them view as harmful, and Marine Le Pen, whose far-right party has a history of anti-Muslim positions. By Norimitsu ...