The Toronto Star – November 15, 2010 The Qurbani Project, an initiative of the Toronto chapter of the Muslim Association of Canada, aims to distribute 1,360 kg of meat to as many as 300 GTA families for Eid al-Adha — many of whom may not eat meat at all because they cannot afford it. Up…
The Toronto Star – November 19, 2010 “One would expect Muslims to denounce the depiction of their Prophet as a mass murderer,” Fatah writes in The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Anti-Semitism (272 pages, McClelland & Stewart , 2010). Fatah calls himself a secular Muslim and ranks as one of…
Liberation – November 18, 2010 Driss Ayachour, president of the Regional Council of the Alsatian Muslim Faith has requested calm following a fire at a mosque in Haguenau, 30 kilometers outside of Strasbourg. A fire in a garbage can was pushed against the door of the building and the prayer hall was damaged. An investigation…
News Agencies – November 11, 2010 Five alleged Islamic terrorists arrested in Paris this week were planning to assassinate the city’s leading Muslim cleric. All of the men, who are French passport holders, are believed to have returned from fighting British and American troops alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. The murder plot against Dalil Boubakeur,…
18 November 2010 Conservative daily Die Welt complimented de Maizière’s reassuring conduct, which it said balanced the seriousness of the threat with the need to avoid panic. It was the very refusal to resort to hysteria that was the great strength of a democracy, the paper wrote. “There are situations in which calm is actually…
