CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France – In the United States, the word “suburb” may conjure up images of bedroom communities with neat, tree-lined streets and good schools – a haven from the hustle and flow of city life. Not so in France. This Paris suburb ( banlieue ), a tinderbox of crime, sky-high youth unemployment and minority disaffection,…
There has been a mixed response inside and outside Muslim circles in Britain to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s call for educationists and the media to recognise the _true face’ of Islam, and for Muslims themselves to speak out against extremism. Mr Blair, as part of his _farewell tour’, was on the programme alongside senior academic…
PALMA – Muslim immigration to Mallorca revives a historical presence. The relatively peaceful coexistence of natives and Muslims is at least partly due to the surviving elements of a once common culture, including poems, songs, language and cuisine. Toleration and mutual understanding seem natural.
LONDON- Muslim groups in south-east London and beyond say that there is fear and concern in their communities after the police raid on a domestic house in Forest Gate on Friday 2 June 2006. Over 240 police officers were involved in the operation, which took place under the Terrorism Act and involved the firing of…
By Emma Thomasson ROTTERDAM (Reuters) – Immigrants in the Netherlands have had enough. Four years ago, populist Pim Fortuyn promised voters in Rotterdam he would stop the building of a huge new mosque near the city’s Feyenoord soccer stadium. Today, the country’s biggest mosque is nearing completion and immigrants have helped oust Fortuyn’s party from…
