Austria’s Muslim community continues to grow, and according to a study by the Austrian Society for International Understanding, Islam will overtake Protestantism as the country’s second-largest religious group by 2010. Christian religions had to suffer a massive decline in membership over the last 30 years, the study said. According to the 1971 census 6.49 million…
Over the last three years, the number of Scots who hold discriminatory attitudes towards Muslims has increased. A report titled _Attitudes to Discrimination in Scotland’ surveyed around 1,600 people between August 2006 and January 2006. The rise in discriminatory attitudes is cited from an increased feeling of threat following the London subway attacks. According to…
The Muslim community in Britain should abandon its retreat into a victim culture, a leading Conservative Muslim peer said yesterday. Baroness Warsi, the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, attacked hardliners and hotheads who claimed that it was un-Islamic to vote or for women to have access to schools and jobs. She said that Muslims had…
