A Muslim man applying for practical vocational training at Swedish company declined to shake hands with the female director, and was therefore denied the training. This, in turn, caused the employment office to cut him off his subsidies. After an appeal the discrimination representative judged the employment office to pay the man 60.000 skr in…
Last week Dagbladet published one of the infamous Muhammad caricatures – this one showing the prophet as a pig – as an illustration to an article on the caricature being used on the secret police’s Facebook page. The publication (shortly after Aftenpostens re-publication of the caricatures) has meet with massive protests and demonstrations in Norway….
(*the above sentence literally translates as “For the churchization of Islam”) A conference held by the Faculty of Theology, the Lehrhaus Foundation and the Dialogue Institute in Zürich recently addressed the question of the public relevance of religion, especially in light of the recent ban on minarets which suggested that the public manifestation of religion…
A census of local Muslims in Austria has been initiated by the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGiÖ) as a result of the upcoming elections for the organization. The president of the IGGiÖ, Anas Schakfeh, expects approximately 100,000 Austrian Muslims to register, while estimates of Muslims in Austria range from 400,000 to 500,000. The goal…
