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Date of source: Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Despite the temporary calm since the beginning of 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron’s campaign on “radical Islam” and “Islamist separatism” in France hasn’t stopped. Instead, the temporary calm has perhaps come to contain the outrage that Macron’s statements provoked when he stated that “...
Date of source: Monday, January 18, 2021
The French Council Muslim Faith (CFCM) has officially approved a ‘charter of principles’ for Islam in France, which will reshape the affairs of the second-largest faith in this European country.
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: Wednesday, January 14, 2004
The issue of banning the Ḥijāb as well as other religious symbols at French schools and public institutions are still occupying the Arabic press. The article gives a list of the articles published on this subject.
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The recent statement by the Shaykh of Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi in which he said that the French government has the right to impose a ban on the H...
Date of source: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The French Council for Islamic Religion [CFCM], the Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France have filed a lawsuit against Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical political weekly newspaper, for reprinting the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on February...
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: Monday, May 5, 2003
The article is an overview of a book by the head of the French Council of the Islamic Religion, titled “Non! L’Islam n’est pas Politique [Islam is not politics].”
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.
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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.