France’s President Francois Hollande has condemned an arson attack on a mosque in southern France after investigators ruled that the building was torched deliberately.

Police in the French Alps have been forced to hand out notices to tourists wearing the full face veil, many of whom have come for a day trip from Switzerland, to remind them that France has a total burka ban in public.

A mosque in Oloron, France was defaced with a swatsika on it’s door on Thursday 4th June. The incident happened during the night.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing opposition party held an internal meeting on Thursday on the “question of Islam” in France, boycotted by Muslim groups who warned of “stigmatising” the religion.

A mayor is pushing for a law to ban Islam – explaining that it is “the only solution for most of France’s problems”.

The French government is under growing pressure to make a clear ruling on whether schoolgirls can wear long skirts in state schools.

A far-right French mayor caused one heck of a hullaballoo this week when he admitted using the names of school children to count the number of Muslim pupils. A classic Made in France scandal that has once again provoked a row.

A 15-year-old Muslim girl has been banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secularFrance, in a casethat has sparked an outcry.

Books on Islam are selling out in France after deadly extremist attacks in the capital raised uncomfortable questions about Europe’s fastest-growing religion.

Four students from the Grenoble Air Force Academy were planning to bomb a mosque in Montelimar.