This article in Le Monde describes popular support for the Algerian team in France during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Of its 23 players, 17 were born in France. Controversy emerged when striker Rafik Saifi was involved in an altercation with a journalist after his team was eliminated in a 1-0 loss to…
When Leopoldine Weidinger found out that the Turkish Islamic centre across the street from her was planning on renovating its interior so as to receive five hundred people a week for prayers, she decided to act. Weidinger founded the “Citizen’s initiative – Rappgasse” in an effort to halt the expansion of the centre’s activities, which…
Hugh Kramer Murfreesboro is a growing little city of 100,000 people about 30 miles southeast of Nashville in Tennessee. Since 1997 it had a mosque and Islamic Center that serves the needs of Muslims in five counties. Like Murfreesboro, this community is growing too and in January, the Islamic Center announced it was planning to build a new, larger facility…
