PARIS (Reuters) - A French imam said on Monday that the history teacher beheaded for showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class was a martyr for freedom of speech, and he called on mosques ...

This year’s pilgrimage to Tunisia’s El Ghriba synagogue was supposed to be a celebration not only for about 8,000 Jewish pilgrims, but also for one at least one Muslim man: Hassen Chalghoumi, a ...

DRANCY, France -- A fragile cease-fire has silenced the violence in Gaza, but a continent away, a Muslim prayer leader known for reaching out to France's Jews is facing death threats. Hassen ...

22 February 2014 Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of Al-Nour mosque north of Paris, is fighting a declared war on fundamentalist Islam. Dressed in plain white cap, and showing a shaved face except for a ...

Following the Islamic State attacks on Paris on November 13 which caused the deaths of 130 people, the French-Tunisian Imam Hassen Chalghoumi, who heads the mosque of Drancy, a suburb north of Paris, ...

Over dinner at a Simon Wiesenthal Center benefit on April 18 at which he was to be honored, Imam Hassen Chalghoumi pulled out his iPhone to scroll through pictures of himself with a host of foreign ...