December 9, 2007 -

In a Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation

Euro-Islam16 years ago01 mins

Next June, the French town of Creteil’s Muslims are scheduled to move into a new $7.4 mosque able to accommodate more than 2,500 worshippers. For many European Muslims, many of whom were born here as second-generation immigrants, new mosques denote a sense of recognition and acceptance of their growing numbers and rising status after decades…

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Cambridge mullah John Butt takes on radicals with radio

Euro-Islam16 years ago15 years ago02 mins

{John Butt, the Muslim chaplain at Cambridge University, has started a radio show broadcast to Afghanistan and Pakistan} From debating in the cloisters of Cambridge to defying fanatics across the wilds of Pakistan’s North West Frontier province – it could be one man’s journey out of the pages of Rudyard Kipling a century ago. Yet…

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