<p>A French court on Thursday cancelled a construction permit for a mega-mosque in the southern city of Marseille that had been touted as a potential symbol of Islam's growing place in France.</p>
<p>An appeals court on Tuesday confirmed the acquittal of a Frenchman accused of inciting racial hatred after posting an internet video of himself burning a Koran and then urinating on it.</p>
<p>Local communities in France's immigrant suburbs increasingly organise themselves on Islamic lines rather than following the values of the secular republic, according to a major new sociological study.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">France's fines on women for wearing the full-face covering niqab veil, imposed for the first time by a court Thursday, are a "travesty of justice," Amnesty International said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A French police court on Thursday issued its first fines against two women charged in May with wearing the full-face covering Islamic niqab.</span></p>
<p>French police were on Friday trying to identify a Facebook user who urged people "to cut Muslims's throats instead of sheep" during the Eid al-Adha feast, sparking the ire of Muslim and anti-racist groups.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Police in Nice have opened an inquiry after roads close to a mosque were given names that could "incite discrimination and racial hatred."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">An Algerian man was refused French nationality on the grounds that he held degrading views about women.</span></p>
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<p>A French Muslim husband and wife living in Britain are to challenge France's ban on full-face coverings at the European Court of Human Rights, their lawyer said on Thursday.</p>
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