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Date of source: Friday, April 11, 2003
The author comments on the Islamic community in France, how France deals with religious issues and on the relations between France and the Islamic world. He believes that electing a representative council for Muslims in France may not be seen as an important event, in the light of what is going on...
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: Thursday, September 16, 2004
Dr. Muhammad Al-Beshari, head of the public federation of France's Muslims and deputy chairman of the French Council of the Islamic religion stressed that the Council, that was created one year and a half ago managed to develop a institutional framework for the advocation of French Muslims' causes...
Date of source: Saturday, May 8, 2004
About 12 imams have been arrested and deported from France since June 2003 because of their extremist ideologies. According to official statistics in France, there are about 32 mosques and zawya [small mosque attached to buildings] under the control of fundamentalist groups [in France] with an...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
A group of scholars and intellectuals traveled last week to Europe in order to “improve the image of Islam and Muslims” in Western public opinion. The program aims at eliminating mistaken ideas about Islam. This coincided with an agreement taken by a number of Muslim businessmen in Canada and the U...
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam 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.