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Mosques In French Cities Under Police Protection After Threats
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police protection following threats or acts of violence.
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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84-Year-Old Tries To Burn Down French Mosque, Shoots 2 Who Surprised Him
An 84-year-old man shot and seriously wounded two other men in their 70s when they surprised him trying to burn a mosque in Bayonne in southwest France, police said.
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French Muslim Group Sues Facebook, YouTube Over New Zealand Attack Video
A French Muslim group said Monday it was suing Facebook and YouTube for allowing a live broadcast of the grisly video of a massacre at a New Zealand mosque, reviving the debate over how social media amplifies such attacks.
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Frenchman Commits Suicide At Mecca's Grand Mosque
A Frenchman has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca, Saudi and French officials said Saturday.
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8 Wounded In France Mosque Shooting, Not Terrorism: Prosecutor
Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor's office said, ruling out terrorism.
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Man Held After Driving Car Into Barriers Protecting Paris Mosque
A man was arrested after he drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, police said, with Muslim officials describing the incident as an "attempted attack".
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French PM 'Open' To Interim Ban On Foreign Funding Of Mosques
France's prime minister said Friday he was "open" to a temporary ban on foreign financing for mosque building, after a spate of attacks in the country claimed by jihadists.
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Hundreds Of French Mosques Open Their Doors To The Public
Hundreds of mosques across France are participating in a major open-house event this weekend, offering visitors the opportunity to come in for tea and a chat about Islam in a country shaken by jihadist attacks.
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Man Who Drove Car At French Troops Had Jihadi Propaganda In Computer: Prosecutor
French investigators found jihadist propaganda material on Saturday in the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in southern France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups.
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Driver Had 'Martyr' Aim In Attack On French Soldiers: Prosecutor
A 29-year-old man who tried to run down soldiers guarding a French mosque said he wanted to kill them and be killed himself "to appear like a martyr," a prosecutor said on Saturday.
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French State Of Emergency Facing Court Challenges
After hundreds of police raids on homes, mosques, restaurants and hotels in the less than five weeks since the November 13 assaults in Paris, some Muslims in France are taking the government to court for committing what they call illegal acts in the name of preventing another terrorist attack.
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37 Killed in Tunisia Beach Resort Massacre
A man pulled a gun hidden in a beach umbrella and opened fire at a packed Tunisian holiday resort today, massacring 37 people in the country's worst attack in recent history.
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UN Chief Condemns 'Appalling' Attacks in France, Tunisia, Kuwait
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the 'appalling' attacks today in France, Kuwait and Tunisia and said those responsible should face justice.
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Morocco Expels 2 French Women After Topless Gay Rights Protest
Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
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Mosques In French Cities Under Police Protection After Threats
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police protection following threats or acts of violence.
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France Closes Paris Mosque In Clampdown Over Teacher's Beheading
French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque in a clampdown on radical Islam that has yielded over a dozen arrests following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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84-Year-Old Tries To Burn Down French Mosque, Shoots 2 Who Surprised Him
An 84-year-old man shot and seriously wounded two other men in their 70s when they surprised him trying to burn a mosque in Bayonne in southwest France, police said.
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French Muslim Group Sues Facebook, YouTube Over New Zealand Attack Video
A French Muslim group said Monday it was suing Facebook and YouTube for allowing a live broadcast of the grisly video of a massacre at a New Zealand mosque, reviving the debate over how social media amplifies such attacks.
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Frenchman Commits Suicide At Mecca's Grand Mosque
A Frenchman has committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca, Saudi and French officials said Saturday.
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8 Wounded In France Mosque Shooting, Not Terrorism: Prosecutor
Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor's office said, ruling out terrorism.
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Man Held After Driving Car Into Barriers Protecting Paris Mosque
A man was arrested after he drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, police said, with Muslim officials describing the incident as an "attempted attack".
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French PM 'Open' To Interim Ban On Foreign Funding Of Mosques
France's prime minister said Friday he was "open" to a temporary ban on foreign financing for mosque building, after a spate of attacks in the country claimed by jihadists.
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Hundreds Of French Mosques Open Their Doors To The Public
Hundreds of mosques across France are participating in a major open-house event this weekend, offering visitors the opportunity to come in for tea and a chat about Islam in a country shaken by jihadist attacks.
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Man Who Drove Car At French Troops Had Jihadi Propaganda In Computer: Prosecutor
French investigators found jihadist propaganda material on Saturday in the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in southern France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups.
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Driver Had 'Martyr' Aim In Attack On French Soldiers: Prosecutor
A 29-year-old man who tried to run down soldiers guarding a French mosque said he wanted to kill them and be killed himself "to appear like a martyr," a prosecutor said on Saturday.
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French State Of Emergency Facing Court Challenges
After hundreds of police raids on homes, mosques, restaurants and hotels in the less than five weeks since the November 13 assaults in Paris, some Muslims in France are taking the government to court for committing what they call illegal acts in the name of preventing another terrorist attack.
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37 Killed in Tunisia Beach Resort Massacre
A man pulled a gun hidden in a beach umbrella and opened fire at a packed Tunisian holiday resort today, massacring 37 people in the country's worst attack in recent history.
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UN Chief Condemns 'Appalling' Attacks in France, Tunisia, Kuwait
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the 'appalling' attacks today in France, Kuwait and Tunisia and said those responsible should face justice.
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Morocco Expels 2 French Women After Topless Gay Rights Protest
Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
