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	2005 civil unrest in France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Interior, violence, arson, and attacks on police worsened on the 11th and morning of the 12th, and there were further attacks on power stations, causing a flout in the northern part of Amiens [3].
		In the suburbs of Paris, firebombs were thrown at the treasury in Bobigny and at an electrical transformer in Clichy-sous-Bois, the neighborhood where the disturbances started.
		Dalil Boubakeur, mufti of Paris' Great Mosque and leader of the French Council of Musulman Faith (CFCM), as well as Marseilles's mufti, criticized the UOIF for this irrelevant fatwa and opposed Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial use of Islamic organizations, declaring that their role was not to intercede for the youth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2005_Paris_suburb_riots (4608 words)

	Islam Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Constructed in 1926, the mosque of Paris is situated behind the Institut du Monde Arab (Arab Institute) and is the oldest mosque in France.
		Built by Arab artisans and three French architects, the funding for the mosque's construction was given by the French Government to the French Arab community as a token of French appreciation for North African assistance during the First World War.
		The woodwork adorning the mosques internal courtyards is stunningly carved and the dark color of the wood - eucalyptus and cedar - contrasts beautifully with the white exterior.
	www.islamonline.net /English/ram2002/10/Mosques/article15.shtml (238 words)

	Expatica's French news in English: Racist attack on mosque in Paris suburb
		PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - Racist slogans have been sprayed on the wall of a mosque near Paris, officials said on Sunday, in the latest of a string of recent acts targeting France's Muslim minority.
		The mosque in Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris, was sprayed with three giant inscriptions overnight Saturday, telling Muslims to "go home" and extolling the policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the xenophobic far-right National Front party.
		Two other mosques and almost 100 Muslim graves in two cemeteries have been defaced with swastikas and Neo-Nazi slogans this month, while gunshots were fired at one of the mosques, in northern France.
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=8928 (220 words)

	Islam à la française ? - Islam in Europe - MSNBC.com
		The head of the mosque, Dr. Dalil Boubakeur, described by the Le Monde newspaper as "the ideal Muslim," is the most prominent Muslim in France and a friend of President Jacques Chirac.
		The government financed the construction of the mosque in 1926 as a gesture of thanks to Muslims from France's colonies who fought for the then-colonial power in World War I. The complex, just across the street from the Jardin des Plantes in southeast Paris, is the oldest mosque in France.
		The mosque's adjoining cafe and restaurant, which serves North African cuisine such as couscous, tajine and sweet mint tea, is popular with tourists and Parisians alike.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12812201 (1038 words)

	A Muslim in the Middle in France
		The Paris Mosque is also so closely identified with the Algerian leadership that an editorial in Le Monde last week complained that Mr.
		The Paris Mosque, with its 85-foot minaret, was built in 1926 with elegant detail work in marble, tile, plaster and Lebanese cedar.
		The mosque of the Union of Islamic Organizations, by contrast, sits in a vast warehouse-like structure built two decades ago next to a highway and a paper-recycling plant in an industrial area of a suburb of Paris.
	www.islamawareness.net /Europe/France/middle.html (1222 words)

	ABC News: Rainy Day in Paris? Head to a Spa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS, Feb. 15, 2006 — Outside it's chilly and damp, with the kind of Paris drizzle that soaks through your coat and renders an umbrella useless.
		Paris is full of North African spas that — for reasons I can't fathom — don't figure in most tourist guides.
		Friends who visit me in Paris generally say the hammam was one of their favorite Paris memories.
	abcnews.go.com /Travel/story?id=1617567&page=1 (371 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS, February 25, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – With Islamophobia on the rise in France, mosques are facing major difficulties, ranging from official obstacles blocking plans to build new mosques, racist attacks against worship places, to the refusal of insurance companies to signing contracts to provide services to mosques.
		On February 22, racist swastikas were daubed on the outer wall of the Paris mosque, the oldest in the country, with graffiti calling for the ouster of the Muslim minority from France.
		Mosques known for their moderate role in the society have also been subject to such aggressive media campaigns.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2005-02/25/article02.shtml (739 words)

	USATODAY.com - North African spas in Paris: Oases of calm in the city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS — Outside, it's chilly and damp, with the kind of Paris drizzle that soaks through your coat and renders an umbrella useless.
		Paris Mosque: Even if you don't try the hammam, this Left Bank mosque at 39, rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, is worth visiting for its cafe.
		For me, the hammam has always been a getaway with the girls, but a friend who went with her boyfriend ensured me there was nothing kinky about the experience — she compared it to going to a public swimming pool.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2006-02-06-paris-hammams_x.htm?csp=34 (1329 words)

	Khilafah.com - France acts against unrest in Paris - Mosque attacked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS (Reuters) - France enforced a ban on gatherings that could cause trouble in Paris on Saturday and thousands of police patrolled the capital to prevent urban violence reaching the heart of the city.
		Police said they had tightened security in Paris because of Internet and SMS text messages calling for riots in the centre of the capital, which has largely escaped the violence.
		Two shops were destroyed in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, and a person on a scooter threw two fire bombs at a mosque and in the southern town of Carpentras before fleeing.
	www.khilafah.com /home/category.php?DocumentID=12214&TagID=2 (687 words)

	JTA NEWS
		PARIS, April 27 (JTA) — French Jews may have been hoping that the election of the first council to represent France’s 5 million-strong Muslim community would act as a moderating influence on its members.
		Representatives from more than 900 mosques across France who cast their ballots for the new Muslim Council delivered a stinging slap to moderate candidates backed by the government.
		Sarkozy’s intention was to provide a representative voice for the Muslim community, as well as to assure it of state support for services such as the provision of mosques and halal meat, and burial rights within municipal cemeteries.
	www.jta.org /story.asp?id=030427-musl (1159 words)

	Paris upscale vacation apartment rental in the Latin Quarter: Brosse - France For Rent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Located in the culturally diverse and university-rich area of Paris known as the Latin Quarter, this lovely and spacious apartment is situated in an ideal spot for colorful walks amid bistros and shops.
		Only streets away is the pedestrian-only rue Mouffetard, one of the oldest streets in Paris, where ancient history is behind almost every address and where a lively open-air market opens daily.
		Across from the park is Paris' central mosque, an ornate 1920s structure that contains a North African-style tearoom and a public Turkish bath.
	www.franceforrent.com /brosse (445 words)

	La Mosque de Paris
		in 1926, the mosque of Paris is situated behind the Institut du Monde Arab (Arab Institute) and is the oldest mosque in France.
		The woodwork adorning the mosques internal courtyards is stunningly carved and the dark colour of the wood - eucalyptus and cedar - contrasts beautifully with the white exterior.
		Inside the mosque lies a tomb for the first Imam of the mosque - a man who during Hitler's advance on the city of Paris hid over 200 Jews in the basement thereby saving them from life or death at concentration camps.
	www.thehotspotonline.com /thewurld/articles/Mosque.htm (596 words)

	The Enquirer - Relax at Paris bathhouses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS - Outside, it's chilly and damp, with the kind of Parisian drizzle that soaks through your coat and renders an umbrella useless.
		Paris is full of North African spas that - for reasons I can't fathom - don't figure in most tourist guides.
		Paris Mosque: Even if you don't try the hammam, this Left Bank mosque at 39 Rue Geoffroy Saint Hilaire is worth visiting for its café.
	news.enquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/LIFE09/602260325/1052/LIFE (995 words)

	Paris France Paris mosque and Jardin des Plantes information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		You can walk in the sunken garden and patios with their polychrome tiles and carved ceilings, but non-Muslims are asked not to enter the prayer room – though no-one seems to mind if you watch from a discreet distance during prayers.
		Behind the mosque, the Jardin des Plantes (daily: summer 7.30am–8pm; winter 8am–dusk; free; www.mnhn.fr; M° Austerlitz/Jussieu/Monge) was founded as a medicinal herb garden in 1626.
		It gradually evolved as Paris's botanical gardens and with hothouses, shady avenues of trees, lawns to sprawl on, museums and a zoo, it's a pleasant oasis in which to while away a few hours.
	france-for-visitors.com /paris/paris-mosque-and-jardin-des-plantes.html (675 words)

	Paris travel guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The city hall of Paris and a seat of government under the Revolution, the Hotel de Ville was wrecked during the Paris Commune in 1871 and rebuilt in a fanciful neo-Renaissance style.
		The Latin quarter is still a hot spot in Paris, and a lively quarter with its bistrots, its cafes frequented by students (from the Sorbonne, the most famous university in France, founded in 1253), its bookstores and inexpensive restaurants, its narrow alleys fragrant with aroma of roasted lamb (plenty of greek restaurants are there).
		To get the best view of Paris go to the 3rd floor (tower top) or have a dinner at Le Jules Vernes' restaurant on the second floor, but a reservation has to be made a few weeks, if not months, in advance.
	www.webscapades.com /france/paris/paripict.htm (2362 words)

	Expatica's French news in English: 'Extremist' Paris mosque director arrested
		PARIS, May 2 (AFP) - The Turkish director of a Paris mosque who was detained pending his likely expulsion was accused Sunday by France's interior ministry of helping to run a radical Islamic group that advocates terrorism.
		Midhat Guler, who was detained late Saturday, "is the leader in France of an extremist Turkish Islamic movement that advocates resorting to the use of violence and terrorism," the ministry said in a statement.
		Haydar Demiryuek, secretary general of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), said the mosque was run by the "ultra-fundamentalist" Kaplanci movement, which "calls for the creation of an Islamic state in Turkey".
	www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=7157 (364 words)

	North African spas in Paris: Oases of calm in the city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS -- Outside, it's chilly and damp, with the kind of Paris drizzle that soaks through your coat and renders an umbrella useless.
		Paris is full of North African spas that -- for reasons I can't fathom -- don't figure in most tourist guides.
		For me, the hammam has always been a getaway with the girls, but a friend who went with her boyfriend ensured me there was nothing kinky about the experience -- she compared it to going to a public swimming pool.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06048/655172.stm (1210 words)

	Guide to Paris tearooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While Paris is internationally renowned for its cafés, you’ll often encounter a truer sense of the past in its salons de thé that constitute a window on the city’s chic, sometimes eccentric charm.
		Located in one of the most chic galleries in Paris (also home to the Buddha Bar), this elegantly modern tea room is run by the famous porcelain manufacturer of the same name.
		The launch of Fauchon’s corner tea room coincided with the reopening of the place de la Madeleine after years of work on the Méteor metro line, and the airy salle is a huge improvement over the old basement sandwich bar.
	parisvoice.com /01/mar/html/restaurants.cfm (1371 words)

	Islam in France
		The Paris Mosque suffered the same setback in Rhône-Alpes (the Lyon area) where the treasurer CFCM, Imam Kamel Kabtane from the Grande Mosquée de Lyon, was defeated by the coalition of UOIF and Turkish Moslems, led by Azzedine Gaci.
		Very much opposed to the Paris Mosque, for reasons which have to do with the relations between Rabat and Algiers, the FNMF was instrumental in pushing the claims of the islamists who, in 1989, engaged into what became a major issue in French politics: the right to wear the hijab in state-run schools.
		The French headquarter is the Ar-Rahma mosque in Saint-Denis, near Paris and the chairman is Wissam Tabbara.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=514 (10099 words)

	DJ Mosque Of Paris Sues French Weekly Over Prophet Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS (AP)--The Mosque of Paris has filed suit against a satirical weekly for publishing three cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad - two of which were among those published by a Danish newspaper that triggered violent protests five months ago, judicial officials said Friday.
		The Mosque of Paris considers the publication of the cartoons to be "a deliberate act of aggression aimed at offending people of the Muslim religion in their attachment to their faith," the officials said.
		The mosque is the largest in France, where there are an estimated 5 million Muslims.
	framehosting.dowjonesnews.com /sample/samplestory.asp?StoryID=2006072116260004&Take=1 (363 words)

	Islam :: Can new panel's head serve France and Muslims, too? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		PARIS - Dalil Boubakeur is the official face of Islam in France.
		In a stunning setback, the group representing the Paris Mosque, France's main mosque and a national landmark, came in a poor third, capturing only 6 of the council's 41 seats.
		The Paris Mosque is also so closely identified with the Algerian leadership that an editorial in Le Monde last week complained that Sarkozy, in giving Boubakeur the presidency of the new council, gave it to Algeria.
	religionnewsblog.com /3093-_Can_new_panel_s_head_serve_France_and_Mu... (1535 words)

	Paris Top Ten - Paris, France - BootsnAll.com
		Part of the fun of Paris is staying around long enough to get to know some of the people who live in the buildings - not just admiring the architecture.
		Paris a Velo is one of several bike tour companies operating in the city.
		Paris a Velo's offices are located a stone's throw from Bastille at 37, Boulevard Bourdon.
	www.bootsnall.com /europetravelguides/paris/jan02paris.shtml (1414 words)

	Blast hits Indonesian Embassy in Paris - World News - MSNBC.com
		PARIS - France tightened security around its embassies Friday after a bomb outside the Indonesian Embassy slightly injured nine people in a predawn explosion that shattered neighborhood windows and puzzled police.
		It was the first such bombing in nearly a decade in Paris and the first known attack since 1975 on Indonesian interests outside that country — the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
		The last major terrorist attacks in the French capital occurred when Paris was hit by a wave of deadly subway bombings in 1995 and 1996 — mainly the work of Algerian Islamic radicals.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6203385 (699 words)

	Guardian \| Vandals target Paris mosque
		Vandals scrawled swastikas and other Nazi references on the walls of the Grand mosque in south-east Paris, religious leaders said yesterday, as authorities investigated a possible arson attack on a memorial for deported Jews.
		"This intolerable act of Islamophobia is a worrying symptom in the capital," Dalil Boubakeur, the director of the Paris mosque, said in a statement.
		Meanwhile, police in Drancy, a north-eastern Paris suburb, were investigating a suspected arson attempt over the weekend at a memorial honouring Jewish deportees from France during the second world war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5132080-110633,00.html (161 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Paris, Aug. 17 (AP): A young man has been placed under investigation for degrading a place of worship after allegedly painting two swastikas on a door and window of the Paris Mosque last week, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday.
		He was intoxicated when arrested and is also being probed for allegedly possessing narcotics and vandalizing nine cars near the mosque with paint, though he did not paint a swastika on the vehicles.
		Leaders of the Paris Mosque, an ornate building in southeast Paris, filed a legal complaint last week after discovering the graffiti.
	www.hinduonnet.com /holnus/003200608171758.htm (191 words)

	Guide on Paris mosquee de paris
		The Paris Mosque was built in a Hispano-Moorish style in 1927, with a patio surrounded by galleries.
		Another pleasant feature of the mosque is the hammam, a café-restaurant that features mint tea and delicious pastries.
		Don’t be put off by the crowds on the street-side terrace, there is normally plenty of room in the atmospheric interior courtyard, or any one of the elaborately-decorated rooms.
	www.apartexchange.com /Guide_Paris5th_mosquee.htm (136 words)

	SkyTeam - Events Guide: Mosquee de Paris (Mosquee de Paris, Paris, France)
		As well as being the main religious meeting point for Paris' Muslim community, the Mosquee de Paris (Paris Mosque) is also open to visitors, who invariably return for the fresh sweet mint tea served in the mosaic tea room.
		The mosque, which was built between 1922 and 1926 in a Hispano-Moorish style, is crowned by a splendid green and white square minaret.
		Situated a little further back from the old market area of Mouffetard, the mosque is unknown to most of the tourists that pour into the Latin quarter.
	events.skyteam.com /sisp/?fx=event&event_id=34828 (330 words)

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