Spain went on maximum terror alert on Thursday ahead of the start of official campaigning in the country, in what is turning out to be one of the most fiercely contested legislative election in decades. The interior minister said that the alert would provide for a total mobilization of security forces, monitoring party headquarters, election…
When a group of Muslims arrived for prayer at the Chemin-Bas mosque in an eastern neighbourhood in N_mes on Sunday, February 17, they witnessed a violent scene. Inside an altercation provoked one man to pull out a gun while another man tried to stop him. Several shots were fired and two men were injured. The…
Arab poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known as ‘Adonis’ has opposed a planned boycott by Arab writers for the upcoming Turin International Book Fair. It is never correct to avoid facing the problems of the world through the truths of which one is convinced… On the contrary, we must be strong in defending them…
The Sufi Muslim order of Burhaniya has organized a series of meetings in Rome, entitled _The East in the West. These meetings are expected to take place twice a month until April, and will explore central themes of figures of Sufi Islam, friends of God, [and] saints for love. The next meeting will take place…
Should students who smoke marijuana or wear miniskirts be allowed to join Muslim student groups? This is a question many Muslim university students are grappling with. The choice of being inclusive will inevitably alienate rigid adherents who no longer feel comfortable in the “corrupting” presence of more liberal Muslims. Inclusiveness for these groups requires a…
