According to a new poll from Léger Marketing-Le Devoir, three-quarters of Quebecers feel that the Charest provincial government is too lenient in its “reasonable accommodation” of religious minorities. 57 percent of respondents agreed that the provincial government should ban religious signs in government-related offices. The poll results are not yet available to the public through…
The Sorgues Mosque in the Vaucluse region was vandalized with racist inscriptions last Saturday evening. The vandalism follows a series of other French mosques vandalized this month. It is the sixth time this year that a French mosque has been tarnished by racist graffiti. President of the CFCM (French Council of the Muslim Faith) Mohammed…
A man accused of sexually abusing up to five underage girls during their Arabic and religious lessons of the El Algar mosque in Cartagena was found and arrested by the authorities this week The imam, originally from Morocco, has been working in El Algar since September of last year. The judges have imposed secrecy on…
Right wing party VVD wants to end travel allowances which enable parents to send their children to Reformed or Islamic religious schools outside of their home regions, Telegraaf reports. Parliamentarian Ineke Dezentje claims that municipalities should not be the ones paying for this transportation for religious reasons, suggesting that it comes at the expense of…
A rural Quebec man was sentenced to life in prison for his role in an overseas terrorist bomb plot by an Al Qaeda affiliated group. It is just the second time in Canadian legal history that a life sentence has been handed down in a terrorism case, after the one last month to one of…
