Due to the lack of adequate channels of Islamic education, from mosque-centered activities to websites run by mainstream, non-fundamentalist Muslims, second- and third-generation Muslim youth in Germany are increasingly losing touch with their origins. Small local initiatives set up to fill this gap are gradually cohering into wider, national institutions like the Lifemakers. In a…
Integrationspapier der Gr_nen stellt Forderungen an die Zuwanderer und die Gesellschaft. Ein Gespr_ch mit Renate K_nast * Renate K_nast ist Fraktionsvorsitzende von B_ndnis 90/Die Gr_nen im Bundestag. Von 2001 bis 2005 war sie Bundesministerin f_r Verbraucherschutz, Ern_hrung und Landwirtschaft F: Sie haben am Dienstag abend in Berlin-Neuk_lln ein neues Integrationspapier der Gr_nen-Bundestagsfraktion vorgestellt. Darin werden…
In the midst of a profound transformation of the French party system, the main political parties are looking for strategies to appeal to Muslim immigrants, from grassroot mobilisation to the pro-Muslim branding of their candidates. The Moroccan Muslim community is using this opportunity to ask for new representative institutions that would enable them to match…
LONDON – Yvonne Ridley, the former journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban, has said that Muslims in east London should stop co-operating with the police after last week’s terror raid in which a man was shot. Miss Ridley, who is now an activist with George Galloway’s Respect Party, said the community was being “terrorised”…
AMSTERDAM – Radical Muslims are gaining influence over their moderate co-religious at an increasing rate in the Netherlands. This was the main finding of the fourth progress report on combating terrorism which Interior Ministers Johan Remkes and Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on Wednesday. It said that ultra-orthodox Salafism in particular was…
