22 year-old Maxence Buttey is a municipal councilman for the National Front in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis). He recently converted to Islam and was suspended from political office. “I discovered this religion thanks to an acquaintance while at medical school when I was 19. We talked a lot… I was Catholic but, in rereading the Bible, I…
On Tuesday October 14, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Holt v. Hobbs, a case about whether a prisoner in Arkansas has the right to grow a ½-inch beard for religious reasons. One of the more interesting threads of the oral argument was Justice Scalia’s assertion that religious directives are “categorical” and not open to…
The Party for the Animals has proposed not to slaughter sheep the fourth of October, when Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha and it is also Animal’s Day. Not everyone agrees: “Why are only Muslims being addressed? Marianne Thieme (Party for the Animals) states that they don’t want to insult the religious tradition. But according to inspections,…
Muslims from Hérault and Gard have decided to use the money allotted for purchasing sheep for slaughter during Eid Al-Adha for a school project or for a charitable association. The “boycott” is to raise awareness among local authorities around problems faced during the holiday. On September 8 Muslim residents received an anonymous text message calling…
Grand Mufti Shawki Allam received an invitation from the Muslim MP in the European Parliament, Amjad Bashir, to spread true Islam in Britain. A statement from Dar al-Ifta on Wednesday said the European MP considers the mufti as the voice of moderation in the Islamic world because he comes from the Al-Azhar institution, the castle…
