Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
For over 10 years, many Arab writers, including myself, have been warning of the leniency, not the tolerance, in dealing with extremism that spread like wildfire amongst British Muslims and immigrants.
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
Muslim organizations in Germany unified under one umbrella, just as happened earlier in France. Some 40 out of 50 Islamic organizations met in Hamburg and decided to unite and cooperate to make the Muslim community in Germany stronger to deal with the state on bases of more respect, representation...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
After Marion Boyd, former member of the New Democratic Party in the Canadian province of Ontario, had issued a recommendation allowing the application of the provisions of Islamic sharī‘a [law], a row was triggered in predominantly French Quebec with an outcry by feminist associations that viewed...
Date of source: Thursday, June 30, 2005
The letter sent by Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador in Turkey, to the Turkish minister of religious affairs, Muhammad Eden, about Turkish anti conversion tactics, opened a hot debate about the protestant encroachment into the society and the dilemma of identity versus benefits of the European...
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
An Egyptian dā‘iya was sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment for writing a book deemed as a violation to the constitutional rights of women in Spain.
Date of source: Wednesday, June 22, 2005
A London-based fundamentalist center revealed that Britain’s Home Office has turned down a political asylum application by an Egyptian Islamist affiliated with the banned al-Jamā‘a al-Islāmīya [Islamic Group].
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
A French university council meets next October to discuss the hijāb issue inside colleges in the aftermath of a recent decision by the University of Paris X-Nanterre, one of the most famous in France, to have hijāb-wearing students inspected during exams.
Date of source: Saturday, June 18, 2005
The orientalist René Genou converted to Islam after first converting from Christianity to Masonic beliefs. He found refuge and peace of mind in Islam, which is still hanging to spiritual values that are no longer present in the West.
Date of source: Friday, December 10, 2004
Muslims in the West have reached 40% of the total Muslim population forming 1.5 billion of world population. They have become politically, economically and socially influential in all societies they live in. In addition, they play a major role in correcting the image of Islam.
Date of source: Sunday, December 12, 2004
“My veil is my identity,” a new book by Véronique Giro, a professor of Spanish and researcher Eve Santomir [The names are transliterated from Arabic, we have not found them on the internet, we are not certain of the spelling in the original language] that presents a new vision of the story of two...