A leading Muslim group in France has called on its community to attend a church mass this Sunday to show solidarity with Christians after the recent jihadist killing of a priest.
A European court of Justice advocate has backed a French woman who was sacked after she refused her boss's request to stop wearing her hijab at work, because it was making clients feel uneasy.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls said extreme forms of Islam were winning the propaganda war for hearts and minds, warning the
veil was being used as a political symbol for the "enslavement of women".
France's women's rights minister faced growing criticism on Thursday, including calls on social media to resign, after comparing women who wear the Muslim headscarf and veil to "negroes who supported slavery".
Salafistes, a controversial documentary about radical Islam, will be off-limits for those under 18, France's Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday.
France has banned three Islamic cultural associations which ran a mosque that was shut down following November's terror attacks, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of French mosques 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 militant attacks.
Kalashnikov ammunition and Islamic State propaganda videos were seized in raids following the closure of a mosque in the Paris suburbs, French authorities said on Sunday.
A practising Muslim man is four times less likely to get a job interview in France than a Catholic counterpart, according to a study published on Thursday.
Police in the French Alps have been forced to hand out notices to tourists wearing the full face veil, many of whom have come for a day trip from Switzerland, to remind them that France has a total burka ban in public.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has signed a petition in a far–right magazine under the title “Don’t touch our churches” after a French Muslim leader called for former places of Christian worship to be converted into mosques.
France has deported 40 foreign imams for "preaching hatred" in the past three years, a quarter of them since the January terror attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.
The French government opened talks with ‘loyal’ Muslim leaders on Monday with one of the main topics up for discussion being the shortage of mosques in France. One Muslim leader says the answer lies with France's empty churches.
Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing opposition party held an internal meeting on Thursday on the "question of Islam" in France, boycotted by Muslim groups who warned of "stigmatising" the religion.
Despite an unprecedented recent rise in both Islamophobic and anti-Semitic acts in France, new research suggests the vast majority of French people hold positive views towards the minorities.
One of France's top Muslim leaders has called for the number of mosques to double over the next two years to remedy a shortage of places of worship for the country's millions of faithful.
