The elections on Sunday June 8th for the Council of French Muslims (CFCM) has revealed schisms in the French Muslim community. The council was imposed in 2003 by Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior. It’s in a permanent crisis, according to the Council’s vice-president, Fouad Alaoui
The president of the Association of Muslim Intellectuals, Ahmad Vincenzo, said that Muslim women in Italy should not be forced to wear the veil. “Women should be free to choose if they want to wear the veil or not, considering that it is not a religious duty to do so, said Vincenzo. He also expressed…
Eight months in prison with a fine of 1,000 Euros was requested in Orl_ans as punishment for a 26 year-old who threatened to kill Robert Redeker, a philosophy professor who on 19 September 2006 published a critique against Islam in the Le Figaro daily newspaper. Mustapha Dian, the young Frenchman of Moroccan origins, sent three…
Amsterdam police will be able to get a discount on copies of the Quran, translated by Kader Abdolah. According to a spokesperson for the police corps, law enforcement will be encouraged to read the Muslim holy book to get a better insight into Islam. A police agent recently made the suggestion, and a head of…
Witnesses and immigrants say that a gang armed with sticks and baseball bats attacked three shops in Rome, run by Bangladeshi immigrants. Shop windows were smashed in the heavily populated immigrant neighborhood, but no one was injured in the attacks. One shopkeeper in the neighborhoods who witnessed the attacks said that the attackers wore ski…
