A man who was previously convicted of terrorism and pledged allegiance to ISIS killed a French police commander and his partner at their home in Magnanville in an horrific attack France’s president says was “incontestably” a “terrorist act.” Larossi Abballa,…
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In an essay published October 3, 2014 in the French newspaper Marianne, French Muslim philosopher Abdennour Bidar, author of Self Islam: A Personal History of Islam (Seuil, 2006); Islam without Submission: Muslim Existentialism (Albin Michel, 2008), and A History of Humanism in the West (Armand Colin, 2014),…
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PARIS: The massacre Wednesday (Jan 7) at French weekly Charlie Hebdo took place after years of confrontation between the satirical publication and Islamists infuriated by what they see as its attacks on their religion. Its offices were fire-bombed in November…
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PARIS: Heavily-armed men shouting “Allahu Akbar” stormed the Paris headquarters of a satirical weekly on Wednesday (Jan 7), killing 12 people in cold blood in the worst attack in France in decades. The assault on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in a…
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