Ian Traynor in UDEN, the Netherlands Kneeling in the sodden, charred remains of the primary school, Hari Boukameans took a Stanley knife to a melted computer. He twisted and he gouged – trying to recover the hard drive, hoping to salvage a little bit of the precious Dutch culture of live and let live from…
The Islamic Community of Spain (CIE) rejected that Islam be taught in schools “with an exposition similar to the classes of catholicism.” According to the accepted leader of the Muslim community, Malik Ruiz, “the most appropriate system is not to give lectures of one or two hours of Islamic religion each week, since it is…
The chief of the main directorate of Religious Subjects, Mercedes Rico-Godoy, on a visit to Melilla, has spoken of the city as a “laboratory” that can be taken as a reference for the beginning of classes in Islam in the rest of Spain, an objective of the Government for 2005.
Minister of the Interior Domenique de Villepin declared Sunday that he opposed revision of the law of 1905 on secularism, while refusing to “open the Pandora’s box” after his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy had evoked this eventuality. “No, one should not open the revision of the law of 1905”, indicated Mr. de Villepin.
PARIS – Domenique de Villepin proposed Sunday the creation of a “Foundation for Muslim works” to allow the financing of the places of Muslim worship in France, “within the framework of the law of 1905”.
