MUNICH/NUREMBERG – Stefanie Nur Alhayari used to be confident: her studies nearly completed, teaching internship almost certain, the rectors of local secondary schools were already fiddling with the timetable for the coming year. “I thought I had already opened the door”, says the 23-year-old, who converted to Islam in 2002. Then came the consultation with…
FREIBURG – The author of an anti-Islam leaflet is sentenced to three months in prison by a Freiburg magistrate for defamation, threat, coercion and racial discrimination.
Jan A.B. Jongeneel, the notable Utrecht theologian and missiologist, regards Muslims praying aloud in Protestant churches as a vexing and confusing arrangement, which deconstructs rather than reinforces the embodied practices of syncretism and toleration. {(continued below in Dutch)} De Utrechtse hoogleraar missiologie Jongeneel noemt het in het tijdschrift Kerk en Theologie kwetsend en verwarrend wanneer…
An uncertain future looms for a Muslim cemetery which has been dogged by vandalism. The first Muslim cemetery in Denmark has already been struck by several incidents of vandalism – before it has even been opened. The cemetery plot in Br_ndby, southwest of Copenhagen, has had swastikas painted on it. Similar vandalism has also taken…
In the hope of attracting Spanish Muslims into their clientele, the two leading Spanish financial institutions prepare to launch current accounts, credit and mortgage packages and other financial products that comply with Islamic law.
