Belgian officials lodged a legal complaint against an Islamic religion teacher in Brussels, who is accused of denying the Holocaust. The community’s education minister made the accusation after the teacher voiced skepticism following a talk at public school by a concentration camp survivor. “For the first time someone told me that my story was greatly…
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, will review a ban on respected Swiss Muslim academic and scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was forbidden from entering the United States in 2004 and beginning an appointment at the University of Notre Dame. The Bush Administration prevented him from entering the US,…
Started in 2006 by Egyptian, Mohamed El-Fatatry, 24, the Muxlim site in English is one of a handful of specifically Muslim communities developing a niche in a growing market. Similar sites include Mecca.com and Islamicaweb.com. Muslim youths claim they like the site’s culturally sympathetic sounding board. Muxlim is tiny: In Britain alone, it registered 22,000…
Fribourg University is to be the first Swiss institution to offer a course to imams and Muslim community leaders on understanding how Swiss society works. The vocational training is also open to non-Muslims with the purpose of fostering cross-cultural knowledge. It has largely been welcomed by the Islamic community. The course will start in October…
