Another sentiment expressed among those who support right-wing European populist parties is that Islam is incompatible with their culture and values 75% of Germans with positive view of AfD, 66% of Dutch PVV supporters and 63% of French National Front backers say Islam is fundamentally..…
James Membrez translated this essay from the original French. . All the currents that claim adherence to political Islam proclaim the “specificity of Islam.” ... On the basis of this position, every current of political Islam chooses to conduct its struggle on the terrain of..…
But the Hollande government is committed to reducing and monitoring those ties and encouraging the development of a French Islam that would be friendly to the republic. . ... Why does it not attract first- or third-generation French Muslims, or those whose Islamic culture..…
In 2006, the year of the controversy over caricatures of Muhammad that appeared in Danish, Charlie published them and from that point on was in the sights of Islamic jihadists. By reworking some of his recent work on the geography of, Who Is Charlie seeks to shock French politics into..…
The plot is one of three Islamic militant operations that French intelligence and police officials have foiled recent years - the others were plan to attack crowded market Strasbourg December 2000 and 2002 plot to attack Russian Embassy or other targets Paris with chemical bomb.. ..…
If, as Gilles Kepel, a French specialist on Islam, has argued, ISIS is trying to provoke civil war in France, then the French state must not deploy tactics that will lose it the loyalty of its most vulnerable and susceptible citizens.1 Detention without trial, mass deportations,..…
In France – which in 2004 banned the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols, including head scarves and large crosses, in public schools – some politicians began calling for the establishment of a commission to study the effect of head-to-toe burqas and face-covering Islamic veils on..…
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