Yahya Pallavicini, imam of the mosque al-Wahid in Milan, vice-president of the Italian Islamic Religious Community and founder of the International Committee of Imams, and Rabbis and Christians for Peace UNESCO in Paris, has decided to publish his last book “The Merciful. Allah and his Prophets” with a major catholic publishing house in Italy, Edizioni…
Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan has announced that Dutch health authorities will investigate reports of child abuse during Qur’an lessons in mosques. The investigation, which had already established that corporal punishment was used in the Hague, will now extend to other cities. Participation in the investigation is voluntary, as authorities can only intervene in…
The Religious Directorate of Muslims in the Asian cultural region of Russia provided an incentive to open libraries at mosques in Siberia and the Urals, says the chairman of the Directorate Nafigulla Ashirov. While Muslim communities in Central Russia, the Volga region and in Northern Caucasus are well supplied with Islamic books, it still remains…
Amid heated debates, French lawmakers are wrestling with a compromise over a proposed ban on the wearing of face-veil by Muslim women. “We will talk about the idea of a law, about the need to take time to prepare it and to avoid stigmatization,” said MP André Gerin, head of the parliamentary commission on the…
The Egyptian government has asked the Italian state and the International community to prevent racial and religious discrimination and hatred against Arab and Muslim immigrants and minorities. This journalist calls Egypt’s accusation of being a racist country unacceptable. The journalist, accuses Egypt of butchering minorities in its territory. Egypt, he points out, is on Amnesty…
