France

A 20-year-old Turkish IT student who says he hacked into the Charlie Hebdo website hours after its offices were fire-bombed Wednesday, sat down to coffee with a French journalist in Istanbul later to explain why he “didn’t do anything wrong”.

As a fiercely secular France grapples with religious issues, Interior Minister Claude Guéant has designated a vacant Paris firehouse to host Friday prayers—a stopgap measure to keep the city’s practicing Muslims from doing so in public.

On Tuesday, France's highest administrative court handed down a final ruling on five cases involving the public use of funds for religious purposes. Religious scholars say the place of Islam in French society is at stake.

France’s ruling UMP party met Tuesday for President Nicolas Sarkozy’s debate on strengthening secularism amid religious diversity. The prime minister and other top politicians refused to take part, however, saying the debate could stigmatise Islam.

As the April 11 date approaches for the implementation of a ban on wearing full face veils in public places, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party opens a debate on secularism and Islam amid signs of dissent within the party.

One week before a parliamentary session on secularism and the role of Islam in France, French religious leaders have written an editorial casting doubt on a debate they say could fuel prejudice.

Abderrahmane Dahmane, the man appointed to advise French President Nicolas Sarkozy on how to promote racial and religious diversity, has been fired after openly criticising the ruling party's plans to hold a debate on Islam in France.

Following last year’s controversial ban on the full Islamic veil in public places, French President Nicolas Sarkozy now wants to formalise the relationship between Islam and France's fiercely secular state.

France's Constitutional Council, the country's top legal authority, has approved a law banning full-face veils in public. The ban will go into effect next year, but will not be enforceable in public places of worship.

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