Cherin Awad, known for her work on a controversial Swedish television program, may become the first practicing attorney in Sweden to wear a headscarf. Awad, a 23 year old woman recently gained notoriety for refusing to shake hands with Aftonbladet newspaper columnist Carl Hamilton in an episode of “Halal TV” which features three young Swedish…
Austrian far-right parliamentarian Susanne Winter was convicted Thursday of incitement because of her anti-Muslim statements, including the claim that Islam’s prophet Mohammed was a pedophile. A court in Winter’s home town of Graz also found the 51-year-old politician guilty of humiliating a religion. She was sentenced to a fine of 24,000 euros (31,000 dollars) euros…
Two years ago, four Uighurs were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay. They belonged to a Muslim minority group in China who had traveled to Pakistan via Afghanistan because they alleged they had suffered human rights abuses in their home country. In 2000, Pakistani police arrested the men and transferred them to…
A group of 300 young Muslim activists from 76 countries have asked President Obama to promote policies that can help to peacefully curtail religious extremism. The grassroots movement Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow issued the letter, whose mission is to foster a new generation of civic engagement. Participants of the request – all between the ages…
Italian Minister of the Department for European Community Policies Andrea Ronchi said that immigrants who did not want to integrate must be deported from Italy. “We must fight everything that is related to violence, because our will is to integrate, however, in order to integrate we must expel all those that do not want to…
