The Catalan Parliament has passed a law governing houses of worship in the region. The law has a triple objective: to facilitate the exercising of the right to freedom of worship, to provide support to city councils when guaranteeing this right and to ensure adequate conditions with regards safety and hygiene in places of worship….
The three Dutch citizens and Moroccan with Dutch residency arrested in Kenya have been placed in detention in the Netherlands. A court in Rotterdam on Friday ordered their detention, a court official said. All four were to be kept in custody for 14 days, lawyer Vincent de Winkel told AFP. Following their arrest in July…
A Muslim couple’s complaint over the salami at a B. C. grocery store has been dismissed by the B. C. Human Rights Tribunal. William and Micheline Issa filed a complaint with the tribunal on behalf of themselves and their three children, saying the Real Canadian Superstore in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam served them salami…
The BBC News Magazine reports this weekend on Muslim Demographics, a seven and a half minute video posted on YouTube. The video, which has had more than 10 million views, uses slick graphics, punctuated with dramatic music, to make some surprising claims, asserting that much of Europe will be majority Muslim in just a few…
An anthem sung by fans of the German football club FC Schalke 04 has drawn protests from Muslims because of its reference to the Prophet Muhammad. The Gelsenkirchen club, which plays in Germany’s top league, the Bundesliga, has asked an Islam expert to consider whether the song might be insulting. The third verse contains the…
