March 27 2011 Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam Freedom Party which currently supports the coalition minority government in the Netherlands, gave a speech for the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome in which he called for a “Leave Islam Day”. Wilders’ suggestion for the day “in which we can honor the courageous men and women…
31 March, 2011 The Islamic Council of Norway (IRN) asks for the legal right to for Muslim pupils to refrain to visiting synagogues as part of schooling. It should not be obligatory, says the Council, to visit the houses of worship of other religions as part of one’s education. Christian or Jewish children shouldn’t be…
31 March 2011 When for the first time new Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich convened the German Islam Conference, there was palpable opposition and anger at his approach. First organised in 2006 by then interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble and subsequently by his successor Thomas de Maizière, the assembly was considered a sign of progress, telling of…
*Call for proposals for papers and discussants* *Making European Muslims:* *Islam and the Struggle over Beliefs, Perceptions and Identities among Children and Young People in Western Europe* * * *Two-day conference in Copenhagen, Denmark* *Friday 28 to Saturday 29 October, 2011* * * *Organized by the Arab and Islamic Studies Unit and the Child and…
