December 7, 2009 -

Ambrogini Prize to the Imam of the Islamic Centre of Via Padova in Milan, Italy

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The mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, has awarded a prize (Ambrogino d’oro) to the most deserving citizens of the city of Milan. Among the awarded, the president of the House of Islamic Culture in Milan, Mahmoud Asfa. He pointed out the need, for Muslims, to have small places for worship. At the same time, he…

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Two new books out in France: profession imam and pari de civilization

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Tareq Oubrou, imam in Bordeaux, has published a new book on his vision of “Occidental Islam” in Profession Imam (Albin Michel, 2009). Raised in Morocco in a non-practicing family, fifty-year old Oubrou claims that this Islam is capable of secularization theologically-speaking. He advocates a “minority Shariah” adapted to French laicite, wherein in the Western world…

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