By Xavier Ternisien PARIS – According to the French Minister of the Interior, all clandestine rooms of Muslim prayer at Orly and Roissy airports have been closed. At the beginning of July there were still eight of them left at Orly, and one at Roissy. Hazem El-Shaffei, the Muslim chaplain for these airports, is pleased…
{We ask who is waiting in the wings to take up the populist banner for the general election in November now that Leefbaar Nederland and the LPF are on the way out.} It looked as if the traditional political parties in the Netherlands were in trouble in the early part of the decade. After eight…
Confined to makeshift halls, the Muslim communities of Wangen and Langenthal hope for more visibility for their places of worship. But opposition continues to grow. Presently only two symbolic minarets, in Zurich and in Geneva, are serving the needs of the 350,000 Swiss Muslims.
