French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has promised to make adjustments to the regulatory and legal rules to allow Paris to become a major marketplace in Islamic finance. Lagarde added that Western financiers could learn from Islamic banks and its “new principles for the international financial system, based on transparency, responsibility and…moderation.” London has attracted the…
Canadian Muslims are meeting from December 26-28 in Toronto for the seventh annual “Reviving the Islamic Spirit” convention. Its press secretary Nadir Shirazi says, “with an average annual attendance of 15,000 participants, the convention draws a diverse group of attendees.” The gathering echoes the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in the U.S. The…
Zynep Sever, a Belgian woman of Turkish origin has been chosen as Miss Belgium. Sever currently lives in the heavily immigrant populated neighborhood of Molenbeek and is in enrolled in school studying secretarial studies. See full-text article: HLN (Dutch)
A federal jury convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix, but acquitted them of attempted murder. The jury returned its verdict against the defendants – three bothers and two others, all Muslim immigrants who lived in South Jersey or Philadelphia. New Jersey federal prosecutors said the men planned to attack…
Germany joined Portugal in voicing a willingness to take detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to aid President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to shut the camp. Germany is considering taking some detainees and will have “intensive discussions” about what to do with prisoners considered innocent who cannot return to their home countries,…
