Cologne’s Mosque

02.03.2012 Following several months of arguments about the construction of the new central mosque in Cologne (as reported), the Islamic Community Ditib and the mosque’s architect Paul Böhm have finally settled and come to an agreement. They are now planning on opening the mosque in summer 2012.

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Muslim Teacher’s Application for Civil Service Rejected

12.01.2012 A 30-year-old Muslim secondary school teacher, who had completed his teacher training in August 2009 and subsequently applied for a position as a teacher (and, thus, civil servant), was denied the position as a teacher, as he is under suspicion of having links to Islamist organisations. According to the Bavarian office for the protection…

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Representatives of the Islamic Community Create the First Basque Islamic Council

December 9th, 2010 Representatives of the Islamic communities of Álava, Vizcaya y Guipúzcoa – mostly Moroccans and Algerians, but also of Senegalese origin – gathered in Vitoria, summoned by Spanish converts to Islam, to establish The Basque Muslim Council, and advisory organization created with the aim of becoming the main interlocutor for the Muslim population…

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America’s Sharia Hysteria

. . .When [Nevada?s Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron] Angle suggested last week that certain American cities like Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas, have been taken over by a “militant terrorist situation” wherein Muslims have instituted Sharia law upon its residents, many people were left scratching their heads at what she could possibly have meant. It’s…

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Montreal Muslim Community Rallies Following Terror Charges

News Agencies –August 28, 2010 The Islamic Community Centre of Brossard, Quebec is a modest presence on a working class street, opposite a tire shop. Members are responding to the recent anti-terror arrests in Ottawa. Two of the three men charged in an alleged Ottawa-based terror plot worshipped here. Both Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, an Ottawa…

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