Last January the board of Dallas charity KinderUSA made an unusual request to its 6,800 donors: Please don’t send gifts. The Islamic charity, which delivers food and aid to children in war zones, had just received a federal grand jury subpoena asking its officials to turn over all meeting minutes, tax returns, and other documents….
Deputy Salima Abdeslam Aisa, from Coalition by Melilla (CpM), today took possession of her position in the plenary session of the Assembly of Melilla adorned with the hijab. She is the first Muslim to sit in a Spanish parliament with the traditional Islamic clothes. The new deputy swore to the Constitution before the president of…
The only Muslim in the legislature, Mohammed Chaib of the socialist group, said that the Islamic Commission must be restructured to be more democratic. He said that the commission was formed for the realities of the community from fifteen to twenty years ago and was not current to today’s Muslims.
The municipality of Rotterdam will revoke the exception which allowed minarets to be built up to 30 to 40 meters high. It was determined by the Burghers that this was not an imposition on religious freedom and that religious buildings did not deserve a special waiver. {(continued below in Dutch)} De gemeente Rotterdam wil af…
Families in Anaheim apartments say they are victims of religious and housing bias. Manager calls it just a landlord-tenant dispute. By David Reyes, Times Staff Writer Seven Muslim families filed a lawsuit Friday alleging religious and housing discrimination at an Anaheim apartment complex. The suit alleges that the owner and the manager of Chaumont Villas…
