![]() USA TODAY | 7 killed in protests over Quran burning in Afghanistan USA TODAY KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Clashes between Afghan troops and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a US military base left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded Wednesday as anger spread despite US apologies over what it said ... |
News of the world in photos: Deadly train crash in Argentina Seattle Post Intelligencer Anti-American demonstrations continued for a second day Wednesday in Afghanistan over what the US has said was the inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) Protesters run as smoke raises from a burning ... |
![]() FRANCE 24 | Sarkozy risks 'gay vote' over same-sex marriage stance FRANCE 24 “There are some towns in France where it's not a good thing to be […] homosexual,” she said in a speech on Islamism. Her ploy was an obvious one, but Boring believes that some gay voters may have fallen for it. “She's playing on people's fears of ... Background Notes : France |
Sarkozy clashes with Le Pen over Islamic halal meat Edmonton Journal PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his far-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on Tuesday over claims that all meat in the Paris region is prepared using Islamic halal methods. Le Pen, trailing both Sarkozy and Socialist ... |
![]() AFP | Sarkozy clashes with Le Pen over Islamic halal meat Montreal Gazette PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his far-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on Tuesday over claims that all meat in the Paris region is prepared using Islamic halal methods. Le Pen, trailing both Sarkozy and Socialist ... Brigitte Bardot backs French far-right candidate Le Pen Halal slaughter becomes political issue in France Bardot backs French far-right candidate |
![]() BBC News | Top am stories, 02/22 San Angelo Standard Times AP BEIRUT A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper are killed by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France's government says. Activists say at least two other Western journalists were ... Assad forces try to bomb Homs into submission | Syria Crisis: Rockets And Bombs Rain Down On Homs |
![]() Los Angeles Times | NYPD built secret files on Newark mosques CBS News Mohammed el-Sioufi, an accountant and vice president of the Islamic Culture Center, a mosque in Newark, is interviewed by the Associated Press about the New York Police Department's surveillance of the Muslim community in Newark, NJ, Wednesday, Feb. AP News in Brief at 5:58 am EST NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast |
![]() Forward | French Jews Mostly Side With Sarkozy Forward As a result, their attitude toward the Middle East, not to mention toward French Muslims, differs dramatically from that of their Ashkenazi peers. This is one reason that French and American Jewry seem to come from two different worlds: Quite simply, ... Paris envoy: Jews need not fear life in France European Jews get itchy feet |
Shades of 'Otherness' in Europe: Indians and Muslims in the Milieu Huffington Post (blog) This past April, France implemented their ban on the niqab, a full face-covering veil. In a study titled, "Are French Muslims Discriminated Against in Their Own Country?", it was found that in the work force, Muslims have only a 2.5 percent chance of ... |
![]() International Islamic News Agency | France/Islam: Halal slaughter becomes political issue in France International Islamic News Agency (IINA)-A TV documentary's revelation that slaughterhouses around Paris have switched meat production entirely to halal methods has stirred a political storm in France, where attitudes to Europe's largest Muslim minority are a subtext in a presidential ... |