Broadcasters fail to fully represent the range of Muslim voices in Britain, the head of Channel 4 news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, said today. Byrne told the News Xchange 2008 conference in Valencia that there was a problem with the media making sweeping generalizations about Islam, which she said was “not at all helpful.”…
Several neighborhoods in Brussels have made certain areas “no go zones” for police officers. These areas are places that cannot be patrolled by police without being pelted by rocks, attacked, or having their police vehicles damaged. These neighborhoods contain a mostly immigrant origin, Muslim population, and police report that the such instances are mostly carried…
At the end of his Canadian tour in Vancouver, the hereditary leader of the world’s 15 million Shi’a Ismaili Muslims, Aga Khan, described Canada as a model for diversity. Khan has often visited the country and has maintained a close relationship during his 50-year reign. Khan added that the absence of pluralism has led to…
