Date of source: Sunday, January 17, 2021
Officials of the French Council of Muslim Faith (CFCM) announced on Saturday, that an agreement has been reached for a ‘charter of principles’ for Islam in France. The charter specifically stipulates the ‘compatibility’ of Islam with the principles of the Republic, the rejection of the...
Date of source: Thursday, January 14, 2021
Dr Muḥammad Mukhtār Jumaʿa, Minister of Awqāf (religious endowments), received a letter from His Holiness Pope Francis, the Pope of the Catholic Church, on the International Day of Peace regarding cooperation to promote a culture of humanitarian peace.
Date of source: Monday, November 30, 2020
Joint investigations into the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni between Egypt and Italy, which have been going on for over four years, have temporarily come to a halt.
Regeni was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, conducting doctoral research in Cairo. He then disappeared,...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Dār al-Iftāʾ’s Islamophobia Observatory in Egypt, praised the popular solidarity initiatives that European Muslims in the West started with the victims of terrorist attacks that have struck some European capitals. All of this comes amidst a series of provocative statements and incidents towards...
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The following text contains sensitive information and highlights various concerns from an Egyptian ambassador regarding foreign influence on political and environmental decisions and movements in Egypt.
Date of source: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Since the beheading of a French history teacher by a religious extremist in France, French officials have been facing outcry on social media for their statements insisting the incident is linked to Islam.
Date of source: Friday, October 9, 2020
In this article, the author discusses French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent statements about Islam in relation to France’s treatment of its Muslim and immigrant population. He writes the following:
Date of source: Thursday, October 8, 2020
In his book The French Suicide (2014), the right-wing author Éric Zemmour discussed the collapse of France on several levels. He focused onto lingering anxieties over migration and a deadly spate of terrorist violence that began in 2015. In the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq, he imagines a...
Date of source: Saturday, October 24, 2020
The Islamic World Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ICESCO) has expressed its concern about the offensive portrayal of the Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) in French media and political discourse. They explain that this has provoked anger among more than half a billion Muslims around the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 29, 2020
Recently, religious institutions have rejected and condemned Charlie Hebdo’s republication of the images insulting the Prophet Muḥammad. At the same time, there have also been media reports of an extremist burning the Qur’an in Sweden, and French reactions and stances on the issue continue to...