News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
The Toronto Star – December 4, 2011 Reading the Aftermath of 9/11: the Sociopolitical and Moral Implications was organized by the Intercultural Dialogue Institute, a Turkish Canadian peace group. Toronto’s police chief zeroed in on a single legacy of the 2001 terrorist attack on America that shocked — and changed — the world. The strongest
Toronto Star – December 1, 2011 Islam does not condone domestic violence. The Qur’an does not sanction the idea of honour killings. This is the loud and clear message from almost 60 prominent Muslim organizations, dozens of community leaders and activists from all over Canada, and a sermon that will be delivered from mosque pulpits
News Agencies – November 30, 2011 As he presented his party’s campaign platform ahead of next year’s presidential and legislative elections, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant laid down the gauntlet to the far right by hardening the government’s position on immigration. “It’s easier for immigrants to integrate if there are less of them,” Gueant told
News Agencies – December 3, 2011 A French minister said there was no such thing as moderate Islam, calling recent election successes by Islamic parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia “worrying” in an interview. Jeannette Bougrab, a junior minister with responsibility for youth, told Le Parisien newspaper that legislation based on Islamic sharia law “inevitably”
Since 9/11, a debate has raged in Europe about whether the principles and tenets of Islam are compatible with modern European culture and its values. Might “Bosnian Islam” be the model Europe is looking for? Or should Europe avoid trying to domesticate Islam altogether? Scholars meeting in Stuttgart took a fresh look at these questions.