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New book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:25:03 +0000

“The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin: An Ethnography Study” by Synnøve K.N. Bendixsen About the book: The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation MJD [...]

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In life and words, Muslim leader bridges cultures

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:22:39 +0000

William Suhaib Webb, imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury, has been a target of conservative Muslims on the Internet, who call him a sellout, and of other critics who say he is an extremist. He has tried, for better or for worse, to respond to all of it — in [...]

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Extremist Islamist leaders preaching to UK students, says study

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:17:59 +0000

Extremist Islamist leaders preached to crowds of students at almost 200 official events at universities including Cambridge in the past year, a study has revealed. Segregation at student events has become a widespread trend at many UK universities, a student equality group claims. Radical preachers spoke at universities including Cardiff and University College London (UCL) [...]

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On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:17:04 +0000

Anne Norton rejects the ‘clash of civilisations’ view of Islam and the west, but offers little to replace it. Lawrence Rosen is the author of Varieties of Muslim Experience and The Culture of Islam offers the review of Anne Norton’s new publication On the Muslim Question. Anne Norton thinks that the “Muslim question” is, [...]

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Yvette Cooper welcomes Abu Qatada’s pledge to leave UK

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:16:21 +0000

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper welcomes the news Abu Qatada could return to Jordan, saying: “We all agree he should stand fair trial there so justice can be done.” The Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will return to Jordan voluntarily when the Jordanian parliament ratifies a deal with Britain that ensures he will receive a [...]

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Pork found in Halal lamb burgers supplied to Leicester schools

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:15:36 +0000

Halal lamb burgers have been withdrawn from a city’s schools after tests revealed a sample contained pork. The decision follows DNA tests on a batch of frozen burgers manufactured by Doncaster-based Paragon Quality Foods Limited in January, Leicester Council said today. Assistant city mayor Vi Dempster said: “I am appalled by this situation. It is [...]

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Film Review

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:14:43 +0000

Its message might be flabby, but Mira Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel is still a bold piece of global storytelling. Based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid, this is an ambitious, heartfelt tale of divided loyalties in a world where complacent belief in the triumph of globalised capital was shattered by the Twin [...]

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French ministers refuse to attend conference with Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:13:47 +0000

Tariq Ramadan is an Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University and a former member of a working group on extremism set up by Tony Blair. Time magazine once described him as the “leading thinker” among Europe’s second and third-generation Muslim immigrants. Yet two French ministers have suddenly announced that they will not attend a [...]

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Hofstad Group Member Released from Dutch Jail

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:12:16 +0000

May 11 2013 Convicted Dutch terrorist Jason Walters, who has spent eight years in jail for throwing a hand grenade at police, has been released after serving two-thirds of his sentence. He was arrested in 2004 as one of a group of men said to have formed a terrorist organization known to police as the [...]

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The Supreme Court rejects the burqa ban of Lleida’s municipality

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:11:29 +0000

10 May 2013 The Supreme Court has rejected the motion presented by the city of Lleida to ban the burqa in public buildings. The council delegation had declared last March 22, their intention to go to the Supreme Court, as in their point of view, the banning of the burqa aims to preserve the [...]

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The National Intelligence Center (CNI) orders the expulsion of a Muslim leader

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:11:01 +0000

12 May 2013 The National Intelligence Center (CNI) has ordered the expulsion from Spain of the Moroccan and Muslim leader Noureddin Ziani for threat on national security. Ziani is, according to Al Pais, helping the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in their appeal to the independence of the numerous Islamic communities of Catalonia”. The director [...]

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UK Independence Party Member Suspended for Anti-Muslim Comments

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:09:34 +0000

7 May 2013 Tony Nixon, a UK Independence Party (UKip) member from Guisborough who canvassed nearly 800 homes for the party in the most recent election, has been suspended by the UKip for allegedly posting anti-Muslim material on his Facebook page. Mr. Nixon’s page contained a number of anti-Muslim jokes advocating the destruction of [...]

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BBC Responds to Criticism of Panorama Documentary

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:08:33 +0000

8 May 2013 The Leyton Islamic Sharia Council, the institution which was the subject of a recent BBC Panorama documentary on sharia councils in Britain, has criticized the BBC for its undercover reporting and for editing the footage out of context. The documentary features an undercover BBC reporter posing as a woman complaining [...]

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Muslims pose no ‘threat’ to Switzerland

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:07:34 +0000

Following the controversial debate on integration and assimilation of Islam in Switzerland, which led to the legal passing of a right-wing initiative of the populist SVP party against the construction of minarets in the country in 2009, three postulates requested to urgently obtain further information upon the state of affair of the Muslim community in [...]

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Sharia4Belgium under the watch

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:05:47 +0000

Le Monde 11.05.2013 The recent wave of Belgian Muslims departing to fight in Syria has led to a number of police operations against the networks who are behind the recruitment drive. One organisation has particularly come under scrutiny: Sharia4Belgium, an organisation founded in 2010 in Antwerp, which is part of the international Salafi network Sharia4, [...]

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Belgium’s Syrian problem

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:05:07 +0000

Le Monde 11.05.2013 A recent article published by the French daily, Le Monde, interviewed the families of four Belgian Muslims who have left Europe to join the Syrian revolutionaries in their fight to overthrow the current Syrian regime under Dictator Bashir Al-Assad. The article is released in the wake of a nationwide soul searching in [...]

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The quest for French educated imams

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:04:09 +0000

Liberation 07.05.2013 As so often declared by the French Government, the recent Secretary of State, Maneul Valls, wants to see more imams educated in France in mosques all over the country. He has made it one of his priority tasks to forward the cause and instructed a study conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education [...]

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French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM): Ramadan dates fixed

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:03:32 +0000

Liberation 09.05.2013 For the first time in France, the representatives of the Muslim community of the country have used astronomic calculations to determine the dates for the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. The French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM) announced that this year’s Ramadan will start on July 9 and finish with the holy [...]

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Virginia county officials say they’re trying to determine if laws broken in Marathon bombing suspect’s secret burial

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:01:47 +0000

DOSWELL, Va. — Officials in the county where the remains of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev have been buried say they were stunned to learn of the burial and they are looking into whether the law was followed in the process. “As long as everything was done legally, there’s really very little we can [...]

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Tunisian man ‘flatly denies’ NY claims he sought to remain in US to build terror network

Euro-Islam — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:39 +0000

NEW YORK — A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to build a terrorism cell for international acts of terror such as poisoning a water system with bacteria, authorities said Thursday. Law enforcement [...]

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