LONDON – The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is embarking on a nationwide tour of England next week to listen to the views of local communities among the country’s 1.8 million Muslim population. The five-week tour, starting on July 25, is being led by the recently elected Secretary General of the MCB Muhammad Abdul Bari,…
By Catherine Cossy SUISSE. Confin_es dans des halles industrielles, deux communaut_s musulmanes, _ Wangen et _ Langenthal, souhaitent plus de visibilit_ pour leur lieu de culte. Mais les oppositions se multiplier. La premi_re mosqu_e de Suisse a _t_ inaugur_e en 1963 sur les hauts de la ville de Zurich, en pr_sence du maire de l’_poque….
CDA MP Nihat Eski fears that his party hasn’t done enough to distance itself from Rita Verdonk, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. Other CDA members and activists agree that Muslims at both the national and local levels are increasingly alienated from the governing Christian Democratic Appeal. {(continues below in Dutch)} ,De emotie, de commotie…
LINZ – In the latest twist in the Linz primary school scandal Dietmar Keck, SP_ MP for Linz, called for a parliamentary inquiry and the resignation of Fritz Enzenhofer, Head of the State Education Department, for his role in the controversy started by three Muslim fathers, recent immigrants from Chechnya and Bosnia, who wrote a…
By B_atrice Gurrey PARIS – Nacer Meddah, the son of Algerian immigrants, was named Prefect of Aube, following public anger at Mr. Sarkozy’s incongruous televised promise of appointing “a Muslim prefect” and in the light of the politically turbulant pr_fecture of A_ssa Dermouche. The French statesmen lauded Mr. Meddah’s appoitnment as the result of a…
