Far away from populist debates, the 96th Catholic Day aimed to enrich dialogue between Muslims and Christians. With 26 thousand German and foreign visitors at one meeting, and around a thousand meetings held in Saarbr_cken, the 96th Catholic Day was organised as a living testimony to the friendship between the two religions, and featured lectures,…
Fallaci, who lives in New York, was not expected to attend the hearing in Bergamo, northern Italy. Muslim activist Adel Smith filed a lawsuit against Fallaci, charging that some passages in her book, “The Strength of Reason,” were offensive to Islam. Smith’s lawyer cited a phrase from the book that refers to Islam as “a…
Plenary Session (Paris): The roots of the liberal state and its relation to security, sovereignty and justice Download the Abstract
“What can Europe offer to Islam, and the Muslims to Europe?” “Europe gives Muslims who were born there a life in societies under the rule of law and democracy, where we can express and develop pluralistic points of view. In the other sense, what Muslims can contribute to Europe is further cultural horizons, the wealth…
LONDON – More than 1000 Muslim protesters have gathered in east London to demonstrate against an anti-terror raid in which a man was shot. Demonstrators waved placards emblazoned with a variety of anti-government and anti-police slogans, including: “Tony Blair terrorist”, “Stop police brutality”, and “Blair: shoot first ask questions later”. But the family of the…
