Islam: the impossible debate at university
A symposium postponed to the Sorbonne, an anthropologist placed under police protection… Tensions around the book by researcher Florence Bergeaud-Blackler are shaking…
Debate on Islam at university: avoiding the pitfalls
Islam is too serious a subject to be left to extremes, whatever they may be. And the university cannot be held hostage…
the majority does not want to revive the debate at the university
Sign that the situation is taken very seriously, the Islamologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, who has been placed under police protection, will be received…
“Accusing Muslim conservatism of brotherhood allows us not to deal with the substance of the subject”
The controversy over the book by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, The Brotherhood and its networks, the investigation (Odile Jacob, 2023), swells day by day,…
an insufficient apology for the Union of French Mosques
The Union of French Mosques (UMF) therefore maintains its complaint. The Muslim federation led by Mohammed Moussaoui reacted in an open letter,…
Is wearing the abaya at school an attack on secularism?
► Why is the abaya controversial? The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, brought together the rectors of academies on Tuesday, June…
the former head of a northern mosque expelled to Algeria
The former Algerian manager of a mosque in the North closed in 2018 for apologizing for acts of terrorism, considered by the…
Roles, values, and gender in the Arab world, by Nayla Tabbara
Last week, I was invited to speak in a workshop for fifty young professionals from fourteen Arab countries in Oman. The workshop,…
what we know about the case of Muslim prayers in public schools
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, revealed on Thursday June 15 that groups of students from several schools in Nice were organizing…
conferences by preacher Vincent Souleymane banned in Paris and Lyon
The prefect of police of Paris and the prefecture of the Rhône have prohibited by decree conferences planned for Saturday June 17…