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07/08/2012 - Syria - France

France 24 recalls reporter from Syria after death threats

RFI’s sister TV station, France 24, has recalled one of its reporters from Syria after threats to his life were published on social media.

02/08/2012 - France

Muslim and Jewish outrage after pig heads hung outside French mosque

French Muslim and Jewish groups have both expressed outrage after two pig heads were dumped at a mosque in the town near Toulouse where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March.

Violence against Rohingya muslims in Myanmar
01/08/2012 - World news explained

Violence against Rohingya muslims in Myanmar

Myanmar is among the countries criticised by the US State Department in its latest report on religious freedom around the world.

31/07/2012 - France - Belgium

Frenchman pays burka ban fines amid US criticism

A French businessman, Rachid Nekkaz on Monday paid fines imposed on two women who were wearing face-covering niqab veils on the streets of Belgium.

31/07/2012 - France

French summer camp workers sacked over Ramadan fast

France's main muslim organisation on Tuesday slammed as "arbitrary and discriminatory" a town council's decision to sack four summer camp workers for fasting during Ramadan.

Turkey's influence in Bosnia
31/07/2012 - World news explained

Turkey's influence in Bosnia

The Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, is in Turkey for a visit centred on bilateral and regional issues.

29/07/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Palestinian Muslims attempt once-a-year trip to Jerusalem

On the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, thousands of worshippers from the West Bank attempt to cross the Qalandia checkpoint from the West Bank into Jerusalem to pray at the ...

13/07/2012 - France

French Muslim leaders split by faction fight

France’s main Muslim organisation is in crisis after the oldest Paris mosque announced that it was leaving on Wednesday.

German court rules religious circumcision is GBH
10/07/2012 - World news explained

German court rules religious circumcision is GBH

A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

15/06/2012 - France - obituary

From French resistance to Holocaust denial - Roger Garaudy dies at 98

Roger Garaudy, the philosopher and Communist resistant who became a holocaust denier and Muslim convert, has died near Paris at the age of 98.

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