News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
Tariq Ramadan is calling on all people of conscience to boycott the forthcoming Turin Book Fair, stemming from the fact that the Turin festival organizers have decided to honor Israeli literature because it is the Jewish state’s 60th anniversary. Ramadan told an Italian news agency that From now on, we cannot recognize the legitimacy of
Spain’s national court has granted provisional freedom to ten of thirty terrorism suspects charged with plans to blow up the court building. In 2004, in what was called Operacion Nova, an Islamist cell to blow up the building was dismantled. The suspects who are believed to have links to al-Qaeda, face between 8 and 43
Several recent incidents of illegal migration in just a couple of days sparked concern among Sicilian officials. A six-meter boat carrying 31 migrants arrived at the port of Lampedusa, and others were found on one of the Pelagie islands near Lampedusa in a small wooden boat. In a separate incident just a day later, 106
Two teachers and one supervisor at a Quran school in Borgerhout (Antwerp) have been sent to court on charges of child abuse, accused of having given a number of student corporeal punishment. The accused taught in a Quran school associated with the Bilal mosque. The investigation began in June 2006 after a complaint from the
Based on data from the ministry of education, the number of students in Islamic schools has gone down for the first time in the 2006/2007 school year; the number of students decreased by five percent. Schools that have appeared poorly in the news lately have especially decreased enrollment. The Islamic College of Amsterdam had 15%