Date of source: Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Chirac sees that his country has five million Muslims trying to congregate to remain in
isolation and reject France’s culture. What Chirac wants, as he read in his statement, is to
“prevent [groups from] clinging onto their affiliation to [their] groups that might threaten the
society by [these...
Date of source: Friday, December 17, 2004
The British government revealed a new law proposal condemning
discrimination on the basis of religion. Muslims, who are considered the religious denomination
suffering the most from discrimination in Britain, especially after September 11, would benefit
tremendously.
Date of source: Saturday, November 27, 2004
The French Supreme Council for Visual and Audible Information refused the request of the Representative Council of Jewish-French Organizations to reconsider the decision of allowing the television channel Al-Manar, which belongs to Hezbollah, to broadcast its programs to France.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Many Dutch complained openly that conservative Muslim immigrants were changing their society to the worse, while Muslims protested that they were being treated as aliens in their adopted country."Islam is here to stay, in this country, in this city," Job Cohen, the mayor of Amsterdam said. "We...
Date of source: Saturday, April 23, 2005
European-Islamic relations are full of concerns. Active Christians in European churches are afraid of the rise of fundamentalist Islamic nationalism, and secularists are concerned with the interference/encroachment of religion into their (public) lives.
Date of source: Friday, April 15, 2005
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark said it is of vital importance to take the challenge posed by Islam seriously at both the
local and global levels.
Date of source: Thursday, April 14, 2005
Dutch
authorities deported a Turkish Islamic education teacher branded by the prosecutors as dangerous to the national security.
The authorities reported that the teacher gave lessons that incited hatred in a mosque in Rotterdam.
Date of source: Thursday, March 31, 2005
The most prominent Islamic
organization in France signed yesterday, in the presence of the French Minister of the Interior, an agreement to establish an
association for the Islamic activities in France that aims at raising funds to build mosques.
Date of source: Saturday, April 2, 2005
The Union of
Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) held its 22nd conference, March 25-28, at Le Bourget, under the title ‘For a special
Islam of France,’ a motto held by many French Islamic Organizations to stand the previously established idea ‘Islam in
France.’
Date of source: Friday, April 1, 2005
The ‘clash
of civilizations’ and ‘inter-civilization dialogue’ are two names for the successive stages of the Western campaign against
Islam and Muslims, lately escalated by the United States in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Thee Western
attitude towards Islam has restricted Muslims...