Last week, bulldozers brought down a building housing a Muslim prayer room in Verona, as the land will be turned into a park and parking lot – named after the Italian writer Oriana Falacci. The move comes from the country’s anti-immigrant Northern League, as it carries out its latest mission. Abu Shwaima, the leader of…
Photographer France Keyser has contributed a photo essay depicting the diversity of Muslims in France as an online feature on lemonde.fr.
The long-awaited 96-page report on “reasonable accommodation” was released last week in Québec, concluding that Quebecois can no longer define themselves in terms of their French-Canadian heritage and should accept immigrants more readily. Philosopher Charles Taylor and sociologist Gérald Bouchard based the report following hearings across the province and having reviewed more than 900 briefs…
The long-awaited 96-page report on reasonable accommodation was released last week in Quebec, concluding that Quebecers can no longer define themselves in terms of their French-Canadian heritage and should accept immigrants more readily. Philosopher Charles Taylor and sociologist Gerald Bouchard based the report following hearings across the province and having reviewed more than 900 briefs…
Artwork by artist Ellen Vroegh have been removed from the municipality building where they had been displayed, after several Muslim men complained about the abstract paintings of half-naked women in the paintings. Vroegh commented that she was showed, and completely puzzled that the municipality removed her artwork because a few people had objections to them….
