French Muslims are in the process of reconciling with the Fifth Republic of France, established with the 1958 Constitution, which declares France to be a secular state. In the past thirty years, secular issues have fractured social order as Muslim women, born and raised in France, wish to wear the hijab (headscarf) in schools and [...]
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France court convicts accomplices in Paris terrorist attacks
A French court convicted 14 people on Wednesday as the accomplices of the Islamic extremists who carried out the 2015 terrorist attacks against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish market. The Paris judges found the defendants guilty of various crimes including, financing terrorism, membership in a criminal network, and complicity [...]
French government spokesperson Gabriel Attal announced on Wednesday that France will ban the Islamist group directly involved in the brutal killing of a French school teacher last week. Samuel Paty, a history teacher, was beheaded by Abdoulakh Anzorov, a teenager of Chechen origins, over Paty’s use of the “blasphemous” Charlie Hebdo caricatures of the Prophet [...]
France court commences trial of 14 accomplices to Charlie Hebdo terror attack
Eleven defendants accused of aiding the militant Islamist attackers who killed twelve people in and around French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s Paris office in 2015 testified in a French court Wednesday. Three other defendants in the trial – Hayat Boumedienne, Mohammed Belhoucine, and Mehdi Belhoucine – are being tried in absentia after having fled the [...]
Southern Poverty Law Center sues political website for harassment
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit against the founder of the website The Daily Stormer. SPLC filed the suit on behalf of a Montana woman who claims to have been targeted by...
France prosecutor announces harsher prison sentences for returning French jihadists
France's anti-terror prosecutor, Francois Molins, announced his decision Friday to hand down harsher criminal charges, with sentences up to 30 years, for returning French jihadists from Iraq, Syria, and other areas where the Islamic State...
France ex-president: if re-elected, burkinis will be unconstitutional
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy stated to the press on Monday that he would amend the constitution to ban full-body "burkini" swimsuits if re-elected next April. His comments came after a statement was made by...
France's highest administrative court, the Council of State on Friday overturned the ban on full-body "burkini" swimsuits in the French city of Cannes. The court held that imposing a...
A Nice court on Saturday upheld a ban on full-body swimsuits, known as burkinis, in the southern French city of Cannes. The city's mayor imposed the ban last month after authorities and surrounding residents criticized the full body...
According to a judicial source, four men believed to be linked to Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian who killed 84 people as he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, have been arrested . One of...