http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/french-muslim-group-denounces-mosque-vandalism/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/french-muslim-group-denounces-mosque-vandalism/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:50 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134574 AP: A leading French Muslim group says three mosques have been vandalized over the past week . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/24/french-muslim-group-denounces-mosque-vandalism/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/new-france-president%e2%80%99s-first-deeds-get-ready-for-more-secularism-and-marriage-redefinition/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/new-france-president%e2%80%99s-first-deeds-get-ready-for-more-secularism-and-marriage-redefinition/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 21:31:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134121 LifeSiteNews: Dismantling of the family, attacks against parental rights and times of trouble for faith-based, mainly Catholic schools are looming large in French politics since France’s new socialist president, François Hollande, took over office from Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday morning at the Elysée, in Paris. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/new-france-president%e2%80%99s-first-deeds-get-ready-for-more-secularism-and-marriage-redefinition/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/muslims-voters-determined-socialist-outcome-in-french-elections/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/muslims-voters-determined-socialist-outcome-in-french-elections/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 21:22:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=134119 Europe News (Google Translation): An analysis of voting behavior that Hollande on 6 May for the victory as the first Socialist president of France since 1995, helped show that this fall was due to a large extent the Muslims who voted him in overwhelming numbers. The French vote demonstrated for the first time that Muslims have decided the outcome of a presidential election in a major Western European country, there is a view of the things to come. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/18/muslims-voters-determined-socialist-outcome-in-french-elections/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/socialist-francois-hollande-wins-french-presidency/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/socialist-francois-hollande-wins-french-presidency/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 16:01:30 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133009 BBC: Analysts say the vote has wide implications for the whole eurozone. Mr Hollande has vowed to rework a deal on government debt in member countries. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/socialist-francois-hollande-wins-french-presidency/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/judd-gregg-vote-in-french-presidential-election-should-be-a-warning-for-america/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/judd-gregg-vote-in-french-presidential-election-should-be-a-warning-for-america/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 15:17:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132993 The Hill: It has been a long time getting there, but France now seems to be on the final leg of this journey of self-delusion and self-destruction. The world is becoming more and more competitive, with no time for the self-indulgent as nations seek better lifestyles for their people. The politics of envy and the real reduction in competitiveness of the French society is clearly placing France and many nations in Europe at a tipping point. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/judd-gregg-vote-in-french-presidential-election-should-be-a-warning-for-america/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/muslims-urged-to-vote-in-french-presidential-runoff/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/muslims-urged-to-vote-in-french-presidential-runoff/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132556 Religion Clause Blog: In France, after a first-round Presidential vote in which Muslims have been vilified, Muslim leaders-- particularly in southeast France-- are pressing Muslims to vote in Sunday's run-off election . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/01/muslims-urged-to-vote-in-french-presidential-runoff/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/graves-of-muslim-soldiers-desecrated-in-france/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/graves-of-muslim-soldiers-desecrated-in-france/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:26:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132523 AP: The graves of several Muslim soldiers in a cemetery in southeastern France were desecrated over the weekend, officials said Monday. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/graves-of-muslim-soldiers-desecrated-in-france/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132192 AP: The French government says that if the European Union doesn't agree on a tougher line to fight illegal immigration it will pull out of Schengen borderless travel zone within a year. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/26/france-threatens-to-pull-out-of-borderless-scheme/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/arson-damages-muslim-prayer-room-on-french-island/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/arson-damages-muslim-prayer-room-on-french-island/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:27:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130674 Kens5.com: France's interior ministry says an arsonist has partially destroyed a Muslim prayer room in the Mediterranean island of Corsica's capital city. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/arson-damages-muslim-prayer-room-on-french-island/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/french-official-islamists-seeking-imposition-of-shariah-planned-to-kidnap-judge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/french-official-islamists-seeking-imposition-of-shariah-planned-to-kidnap-judge/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:28:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130232 AP report. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/03/french-official-islamists-seeking-imposition-of-shariah-planned-to-kidnap-judge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/02/france-expelling-radical-imams-muslim-militants/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/02/france-expelling-radical-imams-muslim-militants/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:08:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130137 FoxCharlotte.com: France says it has expelled an Algerian Islamist extremist and a radical Muslim preache from Mali, and that it is in the process of deporting a Saudi Muslim prayer leader ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/02/france-expelling-radical-imams-muslim-militants/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/france-bars-muslim-clerics-from-entering-france/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/france-bars-muslim-clerics-from-entering-france/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:46:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129937 AP: France has barred a group of Muslim clerics, including one of the most prominent voices in Sunni Islam . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/29/france-bars-muslim-clerics-from-entering-france/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/cities-in-u-s-and-europe-increase-security-at-synagogues-following-france-school-shooting/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/cities-in-u-s-and-europe-increase-security-at-synagogues-following-france-school-shooting/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:31:12 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129171 Fox News: Police departments across the nation and around the world have beefed up security at synagogues following shootings at Jewish sites in France. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/20/cities-in-u-s-and-europe-increase-security-at-synagogues-following-france-school-shooting/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/after-attack-mk-calls-on-jews-to-leave-france/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/after-attack-mk-calls-on-jews-to-leave-france/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:38:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129006 The Times of Israel: MK Ya’akov Katz called Monday for Jews to leave France in the wake of a deadly attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/19/after-attack-mk-calls-on-jews-to-leave-france/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128914 Turtle Bay and Beyond: In today’s Chamber judgment in the case of GAS et DUBOIS c. France (Requête no 25951/07), the European Court of Human Rights held, by six votes to one, that there had been no violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by the limitation of MPA techniques to heterosexual couples and by the French refusal to allow a woman to adopt her same-sex partner’s child. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/16/comment-on-eu-courts-ruling-upholding-french-restrictions-on-lesbian-adoption/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-french-denial-of-lesbian-adoption/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-french-denial-of-lesbian-adoption/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:26:22 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128711 AP: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France did not discriminate against a lesbian who was refused the right to adopt. | Gas and Dubois v. France ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/european-court-of-human-rights-upholds-french-denial-of-lesbian-adoption/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/too-many-foreigners-in-france-sarkozy-says/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/too-many-foreigners-in-france-sarkozy-says/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:14:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128120 B92.net: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said there are too many foreigners in France and the system for integrating them is working "increasingly badly". ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/too-many-foreigners-in-france-sarkozy-says/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/french-elections-pm-fillon-prompts-halal-kosher-row/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/french-elections-pm-fillon-prompts-halal-kosher-row/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:36:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127842 BBC: Muslim and Jewish groups have reacted with dismay after French PM Francois Fillon suggested the religious slaughter of animals was out of date. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/french-elections-pm-fillon-prompts-halal-kosher-row/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/28/french-court-rules-genocide-law-unconstitutional/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/28/french-court-rules-genocide-law-unconstitutional/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:13:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127141 Boston Globe (AP): France's Constitutional Council ruled Tuesday that a French law concerning the mass killings of Armenians a century ago violates the country's constitution. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/28/french-court-rules-genocide-law-unconstitutional/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/euthanasia-major-issue-in-french-presidential-election/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/euthanasia-major-issue-in-french-presidential-election/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:26:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126565 Catholic Culture: Euthanasia has become a leading issue in the French presidential election: President Nicolas Sarkozy opposes its legalization, while François Hollande, a Socialist, supports it. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/euthanasia-major-issue-in-french-presidential-election/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/07/france-opens-first-municipal-muslim-cemetery/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/07/france-opens-first-municipal-muslim-cemetery/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:41:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124861 Religion Clause: France's 1905 law on the separation of church and state bars creating municipal cemeteries limited to only one religion. This means that cities have been limited to setting aside Muslim-only sections in existing cemeteries. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/07/france-opens-first-municipal-muslim-cemetery/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/number-of-french-parliamentarians-opposing-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99adoption-reaches-115/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/number-of-french-parliamentarians-opposing-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99adoption-reaches-115/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=124284 LifeSiteNews.com: The petition was begun in response to a new initiative by French socialists, who are promising voters to institute homosexual “marriage” if they are chosen in the upcoming presidential elections. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/27/number-of-french-parliamentarians-opposing-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99adoption-reaches-115/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/23/french-politician-creates-controversy-proposing-jews-and-muslims-have-their-holy-days-off/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/23/french-politician-creates-controversy-proposing-jews-and-muslims-have-their-holy-days-off/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:53:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123795 Religion Clause: In France, the Green Party candidate for President, Eva Joly, has created a controversy by proposing that Jews and Muslims should be given the right to take off work or school on their major holidays. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/23/french-politician-creates-controversy-proposing-jews-and-muslims-have-their-holy-days-off/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/63-of-french-favor-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-poll/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/63-of-french-favor-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-poll/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:46:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123434 LifeSiteNews.com: As France moves towards the next presidential election a little more than three months away, a new poll indicates that a strong majority of French citizens now support a key element in the anti-family agenda of the French left: the creation of homosexual “marriage.” ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/18/63-of-french-favor-gay-%e2%80%98marriage%e2%80%99-poll/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/04/frances-tottery-effort-to-reverse-creeping-islamization/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/04/frances-tottery-effort-to-reverse-creeping-islamization/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:53:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=121982 Stonegate Institute: New citizenship rules that entered into effect on January 1, 2012 will require all applicants to pass exams on French culture and history and also to prove that their French language skills are equivalent to those of a 15-year-old native speaker. Moreover, candidates seeking French citizenship will be required to pledge allegiance to "French values." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/04/frances-tottery-effort-to-reverse-creeping-islamization/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/06/french-lawmakers-eye-punishment-for-clients-of-prostitutes-in-bid-to-end-%e2%80%98oldest-profession%e2%80%99/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/06/french-lawmakers-eye-punishment-for-clients-of-prostitutes-in-bid-to-end-%e2%80%98oldest-profession%e2%80%99/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:27:06 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=120156 The Washington Post: French lawmakers are expected to pass a symbolic resolution that would condemn prostitution as linked to human trafficking and violence before beginning debate on a tough proposed law that would punish clients. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/12/06/french-lawmakers-eye-punishment-for-clients-of-prostitutes-in-bid-to-end-%e2%80%98oldest-profession%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/the-return-of-france%e2%80%99s-polygamous-muslim-butcher/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/the-return-of-france%e2%80%99s-polygamous-muslim-butcher/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:31:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=119426 France24.com: France’s infamous ‘polygamous Muslim butcher’ was back in the headlines Monday, this time because two of his supposed wives were caught wearing the niqab, or full Muslim veil, on the school run. The development is the latest twist in a surreal tale that we have yet to hear the last of. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/23/the-return-of-france%e2%80%99s-polygamous-muslim-butcher/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/french-germans-explore-idea-of-smaller-euro-zone/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/french-germans-explore-idea-of-smaller-euro-zone/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:06:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118228 Yahoo! News: German and French officials have discussed plans for a radical overhaul of the European Union that would involve establishing a more integrated and potentially smaller euro zone, EU sources say. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/09/french-germans-explore-idea-of-smaller-euro-zone/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/firebombed-french-paper-posts-blog-after-site-hack/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/firebombed-french-paper-posts-blog-after-site-hack/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:27:03 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117832 News from The Associated Press: The satirical French newspaper whose offices were firebombed this week fought back Friday against efforts to interrupt its operations, starting a blog and publishing more copies of a controversial edition. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/firebombed-french-paper-posts-blog-after-site-hack/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/france-to-sit-out-palestinian-un-membership-vote/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/france-to-sit-out-palestinian-un-membership-vote/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:10:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117827 News from The Associated Press. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/04/france-to-sit-out-palestinian-un-membership-vote/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/french-satirical-magazine-petrol-bombed-after-caricature-of-prophet-mohammed/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/french-satirical-magazine-petrol-bombed-after-caricature-of-prophet-mohammed/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:29:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117639 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/02/french-satirical-magazine-petrol-bombed-after-caricature-of-prophet-mohammed/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-backs-private-nursery-in-islamic-headscarf-sacking/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-backs-private-nursery-in-islamic-headscarf-sacking/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:38:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117226 RFI: A French court has ruled that a private nursery had the right to fire an employee for wearing Islamic head-cover, leading its lawyer to hail an advance for secular forces in the country. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-backs-private-nursery-in-islamic-headscarf-sacking/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-cancels-permit-for-marseille-mega-mosque/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-cancels-permit-for-marseille-mega-mosque/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:37:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117224 Europe News: A French court 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 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-court-cancels-permit-for-marseille-mega-mosque/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-far-right-christians-besiege-jesus-excrement-play/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-far-right-christians-besiege-jesus-excrement-play/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:14:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117115 Breitbart: Paris police have arrested around 20 Christian fundamentalists who burst into a theatre and threw stink bombs to protest against a play featuring the face of Christ drizzled with fake excrement. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/28/french-far-right-christians-besiege-jesus-excrement-play/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/french-sex-change-couple-test-marriage-laws/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/french-sex-change-couple-test-marriage-laws/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:42:33 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=117080 The Irish Times: A French citizen who changed sex to become a woman but stayed with her wife of 15 years and their children is seeking legal recognition for her altered status, in a case that could reopen debate over France's ban on same-sex marriage. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/27/french-sex-change-couple-test-marriage-laws/feed/ 0