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Date of source: Friday, October 13, 2006
The French Parliament adopted a law,
imposing jail
sanctions against anyone who denies the Turkish holocaust committed against Armenians during the
First World
War. The law aroused wide arguments in France, Turkey and the European Union in general.
Date of source: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Last week two mosques in south
and north-west France were attacked
by vandals, who daubed the walls with scrawled swastikas and racist
slogans. French Interior Minister Nikolas
Sarkozy condemned the vandalism, noting that attacks on places of
worship are intolerable. The minister called on...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2003
The French Prime Minister attended the first meeting of the French Council of the Islamic Religion. The participants applauded his speech as he explained that the French government would deal with the council as a body representing Muslims in France. He called on the council to be a voice of...
Date of source: Sunday, May 4, 2003
The administrative board of the French Council of the Islamic Religion has finally been elected. Algerian Dalil Boubakeur has been elected as its president. This council is the first body to represent and speak in the name of the Muslim community in France.
Date of source: Tuesday, October 28, 2003
The vice-president of the French Council for the Islamic Religion and the head of the French Muslims national federation declared that he and a number of anti-racism organizations will bring the editor-in-chief of the French weekly Le Point, to court because of his anti-Islam statements. He...
Date of source: Friday, December 9, 2005
Last November, al-Qā‘ida published a statement on the Internet warning Europe and the United States that the new soldiers of the group were born to kill. Most surprisingly, al-Qā‘ida has made it clear that its new members are native Europeans "of European and Christian parents.”
Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.