April 9, 2006 -

In Germany, Citizenship Tests Stir up Muslims, and Public Debate

Euro-Islam18 years ago01 mins

Brahms, beer and Beethoven are German, but can a Muslim head scarf be German too? Islamic communities throughout this country are beginning to wonder. What it means to be German is an excruciating riddle, not something casually broached in a cafe. But efforts to sharpen national identity through new citizenship tests have caused a furor…

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First Muslim Sorority Hopes To Form Chapters Across USA

Euro-Islam18 years ago15 years ago09 mins

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Christine Ortiz slips quietly from the Muslim prayer room on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and into a group of squealing young women. Some of them are Ortiz’s Muslim sisters, the undergraduate pals who embraced her when she converted to Islam from her family’s Roman Catholicism. Less than a…

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