PARIS – French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France. But now they are speaking out – and being called on to take a larger role ...

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 ...

The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination that is driving increasing numbers of Muslims to leave the country. One ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS -- French Muslims have been officially invisible, expected to blend in with the rest of the citizenry in secular France. But now they are speaking out -- and being called on to take a larger ...

Just a week after the deadly terror attacks in Paris, many of France's Muslims fear a backlash from the state and right-wing politicians even more than they fear ...

They called themselves Operational Forces Action, a small, right-wing vigilante group from all over France that had planned to kill Muslim civilians, prosecutors say. Police cracked the cell over the ...

Thousands of France’s Muslims gathered at the Great Mosque of Paris after Friday prayer to denounce the "barbaric" acts of ISIL and condemn the execution of a French national this week in Algeria. The ...

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 ...

France is famously strict on enforcing what it calls “laïcité”: keeping religion out of the public sphere. Yet more than 7,500 private schools receive government funding, and most are Catholic. In a ...