The Council of Minister has approved a new military regulation concern the state funerals. The new rule allows the possibility to celebrate Jewish, Protestant and Islamic state funerals and the voluntary participation in the religious activities inside the army (as the Holy Week Processions). This modification of the military law is a consequence to the…
The French cabinet approved legislation to ban the wearing of full-face veils on 19 May 2010. The parliament of France still has to decide upon the proposal in July, and after that the law will go to the Senate in September. French president Nicolas Sarkozy said that “the burqa violates the dignity and equality of…
For the xenophobic Northern League’s newspaper “La Padania”, the building of a mosque in Greve is a disgrace, exactly like the idea of building a mosque in Ground Zero. Indeed, in their opinion, what is taking place is a clash of civilizations. The Greve’s Northern League group leader announced a referendum. The mayor of Greve,…
The president of the Tuscany Region, Enrico Rossi, participated in a public debate on immigration and integration in the Greve area. The president recognized the crucial role played by local institutions like the House of the People in fostering integration. The House of the People, in fact, has offered one of its rooms for Muslims’…
Beirut, Washington, Tel Aviv- As soon as 24-year old Rima Fakih, who is originally from the town of Srifa in Southern Lebanon, descended from the Las Vegas stage as “Miss USA 2010” she began to face criticism from all directions. Some US and Israeli media outlets went so far as to say that a Muslim…
