News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
Representatives from Italy’s Muslim and Jewish youth organizations plan to meet in Milan, as part of an inter-faith dialogue initiative. Daniele Nahim, president of the Young Jews of Italy will sit next to Abdallah Kabakebbji, a representative from the group Young Muslims of Italy. The meeting will take place at an exhibition called The Fairness
On Wednesday, January 23rd, a member of a French commission on social and economic reform said that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed policy of using quotas for immigrants is racist. Herve Le Bras said: If we will have quotas for specific nationalities and specific professions it will lead to a racist policy.” Also a concern, was
MIAMI – Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born convert to Islam whom the government once accused of plotting to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States, was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 years and 4 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to help Islamic jihadist fighters abroad. The sentence was more lenient than
The size of the new Mosque in Cologne will be build significantly smaler than planed. It should then hold up to 1200 worshippers. The project was reduced up to a quater, a speaker of the German Turkish-Islamic Union (Ditib) said in Cologne. Final numbers have not been reported yet.