Books on Islam are selling out in France after the deadly extremist attacks in the capital have raised uncomfortable questions about Europe's fastest-growing religion.
A French pensioner, who says he feels "threatened by Islam" has been handed a three-year prison sentence after he threw grenades at a mosque in western France hours after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack.
France unveiled a series of new measures on Wednesday aimed at increasing security for the country's Muslim population and forging closer links with the community. From surveillance to training imams, here's a breakdown of the new action plan.
French intelligence services are concerned by a rise in the number of radical clerics taking over mosques in France, according to a French media report on Tuesday. There are reportedly 25 preaching in the Paris region alone.
The front page of the 'survivor's' issue of Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of Muhammad carrying a sign that reads "Je suis Charlie" under the words "All is Forgiven". Three million copies of the magazine are to be printed.
French cartoonists distributed a flyer in Dresden on Sunday criticizing anti-Islam demonstrators' use of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris to try and boost their support.
Long plagued by deep political divisions and accused of chronic discontent and disunity, France has set its differences aside and pulled together after a deadly Islamist attack on freedom of speech.
Fear gripped residents in a wooded region of north eastern France on Thursday where huge numbers of anti-terrorist police hunted two brothers suspected of being behind the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were attacked in a terrorist shooting on Wednesday, has a long history of poking fun at religion - particularly Islam.
French anti-Islamists, inspired by the huge turn-outs at the xenophobic “Pegida” demos in Germany, have organised a protest for Paris later this month. While the organiser tells The Local “it’s just a first step”, experts say it could never take off in France.
A new book imagining a future France under Islamic rule hit the shelves on Wednesday. The novel by author and polemicist Michel Houellebecq will no doubt fuel French angst about the role of Islam in the country.
UPDATED: President François Hollande has called for the 'utmost vigilance' after two random attacks over the weekend, including one which saw a driver mow down 13 people in the city of Dijon. Prosecutors have concluded however that it wasn't a terrorist act.
A mayor in France has stirred up a hornet’s nest by deciding Muslim pupils at the local school will not be given an alternative meal to pork. The mayor has justified his stance by claiming it's in the name of secularism.
The French public are becoming increasingly unnerved by the fact youngsters from everyday backgrounds, with names like Maxime, Helene, David and Mikael, are joining the jihad and turning up in brutal Islamic State execution videos.
The management at Paris Opera have issued a memo to staff not to allow entry to anyone whose face is covered. It comes after a Muslim woman was asked to leave a performance of La Traviata earlier this month after she was spotted wearing a niqab face veil.
France's contentious law on the wearing of the Muslim veil may be known worldwide, but not everyone in France clearly understands it or thinks it is strict enough, it seems. The confusion led to an embarrassing incident at Paris's famous Sorbonne university this week.
Outraged by the beheading of a French hostage, French Muslims will gather at Paris's Grand Mosque on Friday in protest of the violence carried out by extremists in the name of religion.
The outrage from the Muslim community and the rest of France has been potent since Islamic militants beheaded a French tourist in Algeria. The Local hit the streets of Paris to get of the sense the mood of a public still in shock.
Some 40 Iraqi Christians were flown into Paris on Thursday as they seek refuge from the Islamic extremists who have captured the northern reaches of Iraq. French authorities expect to receive hundreds more.
An apparent nondescript book called 'The Way of the Muslim', which is on sale in 1,000 stores across France, contains incitement to holy war and encourages killing “heretics” leading to uproar and calls for the text to be pulled.
France has offered asylum to thousands of Christians in Iraq displaced by threats and violence from the jihadists who have invaded portions of the country. The islamists have given Christians the ultimatum of convert or leave.
Anti-terrorism police in the city of Strasbourg launched a series of raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning, French media reported. Officers are believed to have arrested a number of French nationals who recently returned from waging jihad in Syria.
A privately-owned French company claims to have become the first in the country to ban the wearing of Muslim headscarves and other prominent religious symbols at work. But critics say the move, which had the backing of employees, is against the law.
Two French school students who ran away to fight in Syria were back home this week with some explaining to do to their bewildered parents, teachers and the police.
