Thursday 9, 2010 Bjarte Ystebø, editor in the Christian paper Idag, speaks out against Muslims joining the Norwegian Christian Democratic Party (KrF). Christianity and Islam hold very different values, he says, and the kinship between them is greatly exaggerated. Christianity promotes freedom, human rights and pluralism, he continues, while Islam stands for just the opposite….
September 10, 2010 Last Friday the Islamic communities of Spain celebrated the end of Ramadan. Usually, the local government let different public spaces for the main Islamic celebrations. In Lleida (Catalonia), for example, more than 3,000 Muslims met in a local sport hall. The media reported Islamic celebration at different locations as Zaragoza, Granada, Murcia…
September 6, 7, 8, 2010 Ángel Ros, the mayor of Lleida, is putting pressure to the Muslim community of North Street in Lleida to move their mosque to another location. In the last months several incidents has been surrounding this mosque related to the prayer’s room capacity. Consequently, the relations between the members of the…
The National Post – September 9, 2010 Nine years after the devastating 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, a majority of Canadians don’t believe Muslims share their values, according to a new public opinion poll released exclusively to Postmedia. The poll, conducted earlier this week by Leger Marketing in Canada and Caravan in the…
The Toronto Star – September 8, 2010 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to his Christian faith to “unequivocally condemn” a Florida church that plans to burn 200 copies of the Qur’an. “I don’t speak very often about my own religion but let me be very clear: My God and my Christ is a tolerant…
