LE BOURGET, France, April 11 (AFP) – Twenty-two thousand people attended the annual rally of the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) outside Paris on Sunday, considerably higher than the attendance last year, police said. The rally was taking place in the context of the US-led occupation of Iraq and the French government’s controversial decision…
BREST, France, April 9 (AFP) – France on Friday issued an expulsion order against an Algerian Muslim cleric seeking asylum in the country, accusing him of trying to convert young people to a radical form of Islam.
By Maria Jesus Prades MADRID, Spain (AP) – The suspected terrorists who died in last weekend’s suicide blast had planned another major attack in Madrid, possibly during this week’s Easter celebrations, a court official said Wednesday.
The head of an association of Moroccan migrant workers has said that Spain needs a council to oversee mosques and Muslim clerics as a solution to combat “extremists.”
Even the most religiously traditional Muslims believe they should participate in American politics, according to a newly released study of one of the largest Muslim communities in the nation. The survey of Detroit-area Muslims is the latest to show that the isolationism that once pervaded the immigrant Muslim community is dissipating. Muslims ranked protecting their…
