As the financial crisis in the United States worsens, the conservative principals of a small group of devout Muslims have helped to insulate them from economic suffering. Their renunciation of the interest-based economy kept them away from traditional mortgages and away from making investments in financial service companies, whose stocks have plummeted. Islamic finance, a…
Yazid Sabeg issued a wakeup call to the French nation, which has already suffered major rioting from alienated immigrant youth in the country’s social housing projects. President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Sabeg in December 2008 to the newly created position of diversity and equality commissioner. He is to oversee a government action plan aimed at putting…
As economic crisis spreads in much of the world, tensions between immigrants and Spaniards are rising as unemployment rises. The deterioration of the Spanish economy has resulted in increasing unemployment for immigrants who are often hired to do seasonal work in the country. The decrease in job availability is resulting in rising competition between immigrants…
