For some young Muslims, the proposal is simply a further sign of the French majority’s unwillingness to accept cultural differences. Majda, a student of Arabic at the National Institute for Oriental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images France is ...

Editor's note: This blog is the third of three blogs on the subject of laïcité (French secularism). The first was "Mister Prime Minister, Don’t Liberate Us": Secularism and Muslim Women in France" and ...

PERTUIS, France — Muslim headscarves took center stage in France’s presidential campaign Friday amid far-right candidate Marine Le Pen’s push to ban them in the country with western Europe’s largest ...

The London bombings have awoken Europeans to the specter of home-grown terrorism. That awareness is most acute in France, which has the continent's largest Muslim population. Many say the failure to ...

PARIS (RNS) — France’s Muslim minority, estimated at about 8% of the 68 million population, became one of the main issues in the presidential election. PARIS (RNS) — Is there a “Muslim vote” in France ...