http://www.euro-islam.info News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and the United States Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:00:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Across Europe, Muslims are up to three times less likely to be employed than non-Muslims. Asim Siddiqui, member of The City Circle for the promotion of British Muslim community projects and founder of CEDAR (http://www.thecedarnetwork.com), holds that mosques and madrasahs could contribute significantly to help young Muslims in Britain achieve ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/23/bridging-the-education-gap-for-british-muslims-through-mosques-and-madrasahs/ On Thursday, the US government assured that all information provided in 2010 census will remain confidential. Some minority groups including Muslim Americans had raised questions regarding the confidentiality of their census data given the broad scope of national security federal laws such as the Patriot Act. In a note to ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/12/us-government-assures-the-confidentiality-of-census-data/ Demographics and Immigration [Return to top] It is difficult to estimate the size of the Muslim population living in Spain. Available statistics do not distinguish population according to faith, which means we can only estimate quantity using national origin or national identity as sign of religious adherence. This implies a certain margin ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/08/islam-in-spain/ Demographics [Return to top] The capital of Spain has a population of 3,287,630. The 17.4 percent (574,869) is of foreign origin. As there are no census or official records of the religious faith of the population living in Spain, one way to estimate the number of Muslim population is by approaching the ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/08/islam-in-madrid-2/ In the 2009 Report consigned March 1 to the Parliament, the Italian Secret Services point at the risk of a "next door" Islamic terrorism. They speak of homogrown mujahidin and free lance jihadists. These, are second generation immigrants who live in situations of socio-economic and emotional malaise. They are not ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/07/the-secret-services-italy-exposed-to-do-it-yourself-terrorists/ The overwhelming majority of German Muslims do not define themselves purely in terms of their religion. Yet this plays only a negligible role in the continuing rowdy and polemical debate on Islam that has gone out for its latest spin on Germany's op-ed pages in recent weeks. Author Michael Kiefer ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/07/call-for-de-islamicising-the-debate-on-immigrants-and-integration-in-germany/ The Egyptian philosopher and theologian Nasr Abu Zayd, participated at the event "The Dialogue Among Cultures" organized by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations the 2nd of March in Pisa, Italy. Abu Zayd proposes a humanistic interpretation of the Qur'an challenging the fundamentalist and dogmatic interpretation of ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/07/persecuted-for-my-quran/ The Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was banned from entering the UK last year, has now shown his anti-Islam film at the House of Lords. The screening and subsequent press-conference was accompanied by a supporting demonstration of the right-wing British National Party and many counter-protesters outside Parliament. In an article for ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/07/far-right-politician-geert-wilders-shows-anti-islam-film-in-the-house-of-lords/ A new report from Integrerings- och mangfoldsdirektoratet (Directory of Integration and Multitude) show that Norwegian newspapers published 77,670 articles on the subject of Islam in 2009. Out of all articles written on immigrant issues 71 percent could be considered to hold a negative view. Immigrants are written about, but seldome ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/05/negative-images-of-immigrants-and-muslims-in-norwegian-media/ With the British general elections coming up later this year, party leaders are beginning to look out for voter groups, among others, for Muslims. Observers might expect Muslims to be disappointed with Labour, who went to war in Iraq and initiated strict anti-terror rules that are said to have stigmatized ... http://www.euro-islam.info/2010/03/05/speculations-on-muslim-voting-behaviour-in-upcoming-british-elections/