Sarkozy signs petition in far-right magazine against Churches being turned into mosques.

Sarkozy signs petition in far-right magazine against Churches being turned into mosques.
French Muslim student banned from school for wearing long black skirt.
European rappers called on to explain the relationship between their music and youth alienation.
A Quebec judge told a woman appearing in her Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case until she removed her hijab.
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After refusing to teach because of the student wearing hijab The professor allegedly claimed the professor disrobed and cried that “naturism” is his religion.
A mayor in France has decided Muslim pupils at the local school will not be given an alternative meal to pork and has justified it in the name of secularism.
With his fuchsia skullcap and sash, Catholic Bishop Thomas Dowd stood out in the crowd at Shaare Zedek Congregation on Sunday.
A Montreal-based group is calling on all Canadians to join them on January 12th and 13th to protest against the Quebec government’s proposed Charter of Values for the province, urging Canadians to join them by wearing a hijab, turban, kippa or crucifix for a day.
Harvard professor and Islam expert Jocelyne Cesari looks into the mechanisms of the West’s fear of Islam, and ponders on how the dominant narrative that tends to present Islam as an alien religion can be countered.
Premier Pauline Marois has split Quebecers with a divisive gambit to enshrine “secularism” in government affairs, alienating even prominent nationalists.
Momentum is growing in France for a ban on wearing religious symbols in the country’s universities.
Sarah Carr provides fresh analysis of the deep polarization on the social-political climate in Egypt.