Municipalities experience difficulties dealing with people returning from Syria and them preventing from going. Jozias van Aartsen, mayor in the city of the Hague writes that municipalities lack the knowledge to assess the risk a returnee poses. And they have no access to means to enforce measurements upon people who refuse their ‘support.’ Van Aartsen…
Paris is about to lose its first Muslim mayor. Dr. Arjumand Hashmi, a prominent cardiologist selected by his Paris City Council peers to be mayor in 2011, confirmed Wednesday that he won’t seek the mayor’s post next Monday. That’s when the council is set to canvass votes from Saturday’s election and pick a new leadership team. Hashmi,…
January 8, 2014 GENOA, The Mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria said “yes” to the construction of the Mosque in the neighborhood of Darsena in Genoa. The mayor explained in a letter to the president of European Muslims. The letter came after the League of European Muslims had expressed its readiness to buy a building…
November 22, 2013 South Windsor physician Saud Anwar is the state’s first Muslim mayor. He sat down with Where We Live to talk about his faith, his vision for the town, and how he plans to juggle his busy schedule. Anwar is a native of Pakistan, who came to Connecticut via Illinois to study…
November 11, 2013 Alberto Fernandez, deputy of the Popular Party (PP) in Barcelona has asked the mayor Xavier Trias to close all Muslim centers that have no license. Fernandez has also denounced a Pakistani cultural center located in the Poble Sec (Barcelona) as an illegal center. Finally, he has asked the City Hall to…
