OnIslam: December 1, 2012 Finding Islam three years ago, Amanda Redmond, a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has launched a new business for hijab fashion to help her fellow Muslim women find appropriate clothes according to her faith. Aspiring to offer her fellow Muslim women a modest fashion, Redmond started her small business…
This article in La Presse suggests that the remainder of Canadian provinces would have been less likely than the provincial government of Quebec to expel a niqab-wearing woman in a language class for wearing a niqab. The journalist suggests that students in similar classes in Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Colombia are permitted to keep…
The latest poll by Politieke Barometer indicates that support for Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration PVV party has dropped in the last month. Polls suggested last month that the party would take 32 seats in a parliamentary election, a figure which has dropped to 24. Meanwhile, research by Synovate for television show Nova shows that almost 40%…
The Dutch Public Prosecution Department has announced that Geert Wilders and TV program Nova will not be prosecuted for publishing controversial Danish cartoons online. The 12 cartoons depicting Mohammad led to worldwide unrest when published in a Danish newspaper in 2006. The department determined that because the reproduced cartoons target Mohammad and not Muslims in…
Thirty suspects of the operation Nova (the first violent Islamist attempt since 9/11) -are now appearing before the Spanish National Audience. All of them are accused of conspiracy to perform terrorist attacks, namely the one using a bomb car to explode the building of the National Audience; belonging to an armed group; forgery of official…
