French Ghettos become ideal terrain for religious extremism
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In this weekâs edition of Insight, Genevieve Oger explains why some inhabitants of French ghettos are turning away from mainstream French culture and towards a fundamentalist vision of Islam.
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PARIS The French government issued a sharp new condemnation of racism Monday as a previously unknown Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility for burning a Jewish center here.
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There was little bread and barely any butter. Without coal, electricity or gas, Parisians were cooking meals on camp fires in the streets. By the summer of 1944, the French capital &#151; under the Nazi boot for four years &#151; was hungry, exhausted and seething with revenge.
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PARIS: France&#39;s state schools grappling with a new law banning Muslim headscarves have started expelling students refusing to put education before their religion.
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Suspected Islamic extremists were planning attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant, Spain's El Pais newspaper reports. Subways were preferred targets because access by emergency crews would be difficult, the paper reports.
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France launched a hunt for arsonists who destroyed a Jewish centre in Paris after daubing it with anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas -- the latest in a wave of anti-Jewish acts that has unsettled the country.
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Evangelical Christians in France face  growing problems as authorities enforce secularism, favor  Muslims or view them as supporters of President Bush, French  Protestant leaders say.
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Britain's struggle to contain Muslim extremism points up a chilling trend across Europe: the rise of radical Islam, and with it, a willingness among a small but dangerous minority of young people to answer the call to jihad.
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In a new book seen as a prelude to a presidential bid, France's finance minister is taking up the thorny question of how to reach out to an increasingly assertive Muslim minority and integrate it into a largely ...
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PARIS - In one of the worst recent anti-Semitic attacks in France, arsonists destroyed a Jewish center in Paris after daubing it with racist graffiti and swastikas, provoking condemnation by the entire political class Sunday and touching off a manhunt
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French ministers are Tuesday to unveil a blueprint for tackling unemployment and discrimination in hundreds of low-income, high-immigrant suburbs that exploded into rioting in 2005.
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Arsonists destroyed a Jewish community center in eastern Paris before dawn on Sunday, leaving behind red graffiti with menacing anti-Semitic messages such as ''Jews get out.'' Flames gnawed away the wooden ...
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A French court rules a deportation order against a radical Muslim preacher is lawful and he may be expelled again.
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To the outside world, the two groups appear to have much in common: Devoutly Muslim, fiercely hostile to Israel and the U.S., and high on Washington&#039;s list of terrorist groups.
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Religious segregation is expanding from places of worship to neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.
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PARIS - France has begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves in public schools â-hich defies a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols â - is treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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An ultra-radical Islamic ideology mixing zealot-like devotion and holy war creed is drawing more scrutiny in anti-terrorist probes from the Middle East to Europe - with increasing indications that its base on ...