Date of source: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The situation of Muslims in Macedonia is better now than before the signing of the Ohrid Agreement in 2001. They now have the right to join the army and to perform their religious rites.
Date of source: Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu has announced that a new consultative Islamic council affiliated to the Ministry of Interior is to be formed in an attempt to combat terrorism.
Date of source: Sunday, December 29, 2002
A Bosnian Muslim demanded the demolition of a church allegedly built on her land. She filed a complaint against the Bosnian Orthodox Church saying the church sent about 50 persons who terrorized and insulted her.
Date of source: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
An Italian woman who had embraced Islam, changed her name into Fatma and took the veil, was forced to pay Euro 850 for wearing a niqab. The mayor of the city where the women lives expressed his anger because the woman refused to take off the niqab in order to prove her identity. "The law should be...
Date of source: Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Dr. Mustafa Ceric, the renowned Bosnian thinker and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, won the UNESCO peace prize for this year shared with the French Cardinal [Roger] Etchegaray in recognition of his efforts to make peace in Bosnia and the world. Dr. Ceric asked Bosnian soldiers during the...