The Toronto Star – March 3, 2012 The 79 families who make up the Canadian Sufi Cultural Centre in Toronto are raising money to feed a village in Burkina Faso. As famine sweeps the semi-arid countries of West Africa — on the heels of last year’s devastating famine in Somalia — the Toronto Sufi families…
News Agencies – March 2, 2012 Ludovic and Qiyaam were married in South Africa last August. This week they got married by an imam in Paris. More than forty friends and members of HM2F – Muslim gays of France – attended the event. Christian and Jewish LGBT organizations were also invited. The ceremony was…
News Agencies – February 28, 2012 Father tries to set 23-year-old daughter alight for being too emancipated. A man was being held by police after allegedly trying to set fire to his grown-up daughter in central Paris. Le Parisien newspaper reported that the man sprayed teargas in the young woman’s face and then covered her…
Radio Netherlands Worldwide carries an article on surgical hymen reconstruction, following publication of research on the topic by members of Amsterdam hospitals. The article states that “in some Islamic and Hindu communities… an intact hymen is ultimate proof of pre-marital virginity”, prompting some women to undergo the surgery prior to marriage. The article notes the…
28 February 2012 Dutch MP Barry Madlener stressed the necessary exclusion of Turkey from the European Union in an interview with the Huriyet daily. He noted that the presence of Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands cause ethnic Dutch to feel ‘unsafe’ and stated that “We must be crazy to want for Turkey to enter the…
