A dead sheep was hung at the site of a new mosque in the Dutch city of Roosendaal, police reported Saturday. The animal had ‘no mosque’ written in green on the fleece. The sheep hung at the site of one of the largest planned mosques in the Netherlands, which has already seen incidents of arson…
A conference in Utrecht this week, organized as part of the MultiFestijn Festival, explored “whether the unease about Islam in the Netherlands is due to a lack of leadership”, Reformatorisch Dagblad reports. Abdulwahid Van Bommel, a translator and guest lecturer at the University of Groningen, spoke at the conference and identified a sense of unease…
The Labour leader of Tower Hamlets council, Lutfur Rahman, was last week replaced in his job after this newspaper revealed that he had been elected to the post with the help of a fundamentalist Islamic group, the Islamic Forum of Europe. Mr Rahman was replaced as leader by Helal Abbas, who has condemned the IFE’s…
He is a long-haired rocker who plays a mean riff and cites Led Zeppelin among his influences — and now he has been unveiled as the government’s latest weapon in the fight against Al-Qaeda. Salman Ahmad, a Pakistani musician whose band has sold more than 30m albums, is to urge Muslim students to choose an…
The Miss USA 2010 title went to Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., on Sunday night, as she beat out Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, who was named first runner-up. Fakih, a Lebanese-American born in New York, nearly fell while finishing her walk in a long, strapless gown with a train, but she made it without…
