The country struggles with religion and integration one week after the Charlie Hebdo murders. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

And particularly in France, an aggressively secularizing country that has never really tolerated multiculturalism or the kind of cultural religious diversity that is the hallmark of the United States, ...

“Who in this room is French?” Nourdine Nabili asks a group of 25 eighth-graders in Bondy, one of the concrete working-class suburbs just outside Paris. It is April 2011 and Nabili, the 44-year-old ...

PARIS (RNS) As France emerges from its worst terrorist attack in decades, a biting novel that imagines the country governed by Islamic law is part of a swirling debate about its basic values. Will the ...

Every host country of the Olympic Games faces a reckoning. It’s not a trial like a war or national disaster. It can’t be compared to an election of the sort America faces this fall. But the world’s ...

The future of multiculturalism in France The day after Paris was targeted by a series of deadly terror attacks, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the country’s far-right National Front party, called for ...

One of the many signs of the rightward creep of Western European politics is the recent unison of voices denouncing multiculturalism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel led off last October by claiming ...

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In truth, Britain is now a deeply divided land where suspicion, intolerance and aggression cast their shadow over urban areas. This sorry situation has been created by a deliberate act of public ...

The country struggles with religion and integration one week after the Charlie Hebdo murders. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard) The first excursion that my husband and I made after we arrived in Paris on a cold ...