In an October meeting with Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy shocked listeners with a long anti-Muslim complaint, stating that there are too many Muslims in Europe. Sarkozy also discussed his disdain concerning discussion of Turkey’s entrance into the European Union. According to the French news agency _L ib_ration, the French president…
Organized Islam in Germany faces a major reconstruction and reorganization period in order to provide adequate representation of Muslims in the public sphere and to react quicker in situations of crises and public debates (such as debates on extremism, cartoon crises or Mosque controversies), Mounir Azzaoui, speaker of the Central Consistory of the Muslims in…
A “torrent” of negative stories, showing a “hostile and scare mongering attitude” has been revealed in a new study into the portrayal of Muslims and Islam in the British media. The research, commissioned by London mayor Ken Livingstone, found that 91 per cent of articles in national newspapers about Muslims were negative during just one…
I’m Islamic: don’t panic!” is the cheerful slogan emblazoned on a T shirt in one London street market – a cheeky London response to an issue that has become one of the most pressing of the times. In a city with a Muslim population of well over half a million and growing and against a…
The leader of Britain’s Muslims tonight welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement of a raft of new anti-terror security measures including a _400 million campaign to combat the radicalisation of young Muslims. Ruth Gledhill reports.
