In the 2009 Report consigned March 1 to the Parliament, the Italian Secret Services point at the risk of a “next door” Islamic terrorism. They speak of homogrown mujahidin and free lance jihadists. These, are second generation immigrants who live in situations of socio-economic and emotional malaise. They are not directly recruited by al-Qaida but…
The overwhelming majority of German Muslims do not define themselves purely in terms of their religion. Yet this plays only a negligible role in the continuing rowdy and polemical debate on Islam that has gone out for its latest spin on Germany’s op-ed pages in recent weeks. Author Michael Kiefer calls for “de-Islamicising” the debate…
The Egyptian philosopher and theologian Nasr Abu Zayd, participated at the event “The Dialogue Among Cultures” organized by Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations the 2nd of March in Pisa, Italy. Abu Zayd proposes a humanistic interpretation of the Qur’an challenging the fundamentalist and dogmatic interpretation of the holy book. Due to…
The Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was banned from entering the UK last year, has now shown his anti-Islam film at the House of Lords. The screening and subsequent press-conference was accompanied by a supporting demonstration of the right-wing British National Party and many counter-protesters outside Parliament. In an article for The Independent, entitled “Islamophobia…
Approximately 60 members of the French feminist organization NPNS (Ni Putes Ni Soumisses or Neither Whores nor Submissives) gathered at the Place de la Republique in Paris to make public their position against the burqa in France. President Sihem Habchi told AFP that “for this generation, the rallying point is secularism, parity and to build…
