Greece: Muslims living in Athens voice displeasure over mosque delay

Muslims in Athens are voicing their displeasure concerning the delay of a mosque construction that would house tens of thousands of worshipers. The mosque would allow for many Athenian Muslims adequate place to pray and gather, instead of using abandoned factories or converted coffee shops as makeshift prayer houses, as they have been doing for…

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Sweden: Debate over language ban proposal in schools and classrooms

According to a Liberal Party working group, elementary students in Sweden with foreign backgrounds should no longer be allowed to study math in their native language. “We are very skeptical toward the experiment taking place around Sweden right now, with maths being taught in Arabic. The risk is that it will worsen students’ development of…

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CIA warns terrorists targeting German vote

A CIA official on Monday warned that the US intelligence agency had received indications al-Qaeda was planning to launch terrorist attacks in Germany with the aim of influencing the country’s general election this autumn. The anonymous official from the Central Intelligence Agency told German news agency DDP that Washington’s intermediaries in Pakistan had supplied information…

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Princess Royal celebrates with youth

The Princess Royal’s visit to Nottingham was for a celebration of the Muslim Youth Development Project, which trains young Muslims to become voluntary youth leaders. Wearing a calf-length tweed coat and flat knee-high boots, she made her way through the modest entrance of Bobbers Mill Community Centre, the Tardis-like hub where the project officially started…

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Turkish brewer seeks foothold in Germany

A photograph hanging in Bunyamin Turksoy’s corner office shows the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, with a broad smile on his face — and a glass of cloudy white Raki liquor in his hand. It’s inspiration for Turksoy, a German-Turkish entrepreneur who has come out with a new brand of beer called Bey….

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