Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), has critiqued the recent French national identity debate and its “political instrumentalization of the Muslim faith”. Moussaoui suggests that greater investigation into the “social and political roots” of assimilation in France would be more appropriate.
Said Ida Hassan, former director of the Moroccan News Agency in Madrid, has founded the first Spanish online newspaper in Arabic, Andalus Press. The newspaper tries to reach the Arabic-speaking population in Spain providing it with general information about Spain. It tries to follow the model of other newspapers that already exist in Chinese or…
In the religion section of the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche, Pierre Heumann describes the plight of Christian minorities in Muslim countries across the world. As he hops from Algeria to Egypt, and from Malaysia to Pakistan, Heumann recounts how local Christians become the scapegoats for Muslim anger against the West. Muslim countries account for…
Following a number of anti-Islamic comments in online forums, a politician for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in the Bludenz district of west-Austrian state of Vorarlberg has been removed from the local electoral list. Karl Mayrhofer had written that Islam was a “degenerate and depraved ideology,” which cost him both his party membership as…
French Immigration Minister Eric Besson has denied converting to Islam. Rumors began when Besson began sharing his private life with a young Tunisian woman. Some journalists suggested conversion would be necessary should he want to marry Wassila Bourguiba.
