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CAIR Reminds Gingrich that All Faiths are Equal in America

    *(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/17/12) *– A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization tonight called on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and other GOP representatives to reaffirm their support of an American republic that treats citizens of all faiths as equals. Gingrich today told a South Carolina town hall that he would only support a [...]

France: No headscarves for nannies, Senate adopts law

    News Agencies – January 18, 2012 Nannies and childcare assistants could soon be banned from wearing the Islamic veil in France, even when working at home, after a controversial law bill was adopted by the French Senate. If the text is subsequently approved by the country’s national assembly, there will be a ban on wearing [...]

Too Diverse to Domesticate

    Since 9/11, a debate has raged in Europe about whether the principles and tenets of Islam are compatible with modern European culture and its values. Might “Bosnian Islam” be the model Europe is looking for? Or should Europe avoid trying to domesticate Islam altogether? Scholars meeting in Stuttgart took a fresh look at these questions.

New Survey Reveals: Britain’s Muslims Proud and Optimistic

Max Wind-Cowie, Tom Gregory

    Being British

    21./22.11.2011 Results of a new survey conducted by the British think tank Demos show that British Muslims feel a greater sense of pride in being British than the population as a whole and that they are significantly more optimistic about the country’s future. The poll of 2000 people was designed to explore what symbolised the [...]

Project Surveys Dutch Women About Headscarves

    18 November 2011 A large scale project in the Netherlands, entitled Hoofdboek, aims to provide an overview of the lives of Dutch Muslim women wearing the headscarves. The project will involve a book, survey, traveling exhibition and social media platform. The National Headscarf Survey component of the project has been conducted by Motivaction and interviewed [...]

The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election

    Published by Pew Research Center

    In the last four national elections, generational differences have mattered more than they have in decades. According to the exit polls, younger people have voted substantially more Democratic than other age groups in each election since 2004, while older voters have cast more ballots for Republican candidates in each election since 2006. The latest national [...]

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A Call for Muslims in the West to Serve Their Societies: Interview with Amr Khaled

    10 November 2010 Amr Khaled is one the best-known TV preachers of the Arab world, reaching millions of mostly young Muslims via satellite channels, internet, books, cassettes and CDs. In this interview with Christoph Dreyer, he talks about the role faith and activism can play for Muslims’ integration into Western societies. In recent years, Amr [...]

A Personal Quest for an Understanding of Modern Islam

    Aatish Taseer is a British writer and journalist of British-Indian origin. In this interview with Richard Marcus, he talks about Islamic identity, the ailments of the Islamic world, and his most recent book, the highly acclaimed Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands.

Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship

    Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland, have brought the status of Islam in the secular public sphere to the forefront of European political debates.

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New Book: Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe. Widening the European Discourse on Islam

K. Górak-Sosnowska (ed.)

    Published by University of Warsaw

    While Islam has been firmly placed on the global agenda since 9/11, and continues to occupy a prominent place in media discourse, attention has recently begun to shift towards European Muslims, or “as some would prefer to say” Muslims in Europe. Apart from the usual concerns, mostly articulated in the media, on the radicalization of [...]

Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism

    Published by Pew

    Mainstream and Moderate Attitudes As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, a comprehensive public opinion survey finds no indication of increased alienation or anger among Muslim Americans in response to concerns about home-grown Islamic terrorists, controversies about the building of mosques and other pressures that have been brought to bear on this high-profile [...]

New Book on the History of Germany’s Islamist Scene

Stefan Meining

    Published by Beck

    22.07.2011 In his book “Eine Moschee in Deutschland” (A mosque in Germany), which is based on research conducted for a TV documentary on the rise of political Islam in the West, historian Stefan Meinig offers an analysis of the emergence of political Islam in Germany. Meinig traces the rise of Islamist networks in Germany back [...]

UC Berkeley Report Documents Growing Islamophobia in U.S.

    Same Hate, New Target

    Published by CAIR

    (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/23/11) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender today released a report based on available data and interviews with experts that documents growing Islamophobia in the United States and offers recommendations about how to challenge the troubling phenomenon. Executive Summary: American Muslim [...]

Deborah Baker’s ‘The Convert’ is the true story of a Jewish girl who converted to Islam

Deborah Baker

    The Convert

    Published by Graywolf Press

    The story of Maryam Jameelah is an extraordinary but painfully confused true tale of a young American woman whose search for moral absolutes and emotional security led her to abandon a middle-class Jewish upbringing in suburban New York in the 1960s for a vastly different existence as an exile and convert to Islam in Pakistan, [...]