Le Monde – June 1, 2012 This Le Monde article charts how a number of alliances and fractures are unfolding as French Muslim organizations critique the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) for its lack of representativity. In fact, it is the two initial founders of the CFCM who, having boycotted the 2011 elections,…
News Agencies – May 24, 2012 A leading French Muslim group says three mosques have been vandalized and is urging authorities to punish the perpetrators. The French Council of the Muslim Faith, or CFCM, said racist insults and Nazi slogans were scrawled on a mosque in the southeastern town of Tarascon and another in the…
June 1, 2012 A documentary film entitled “I am gay and I am Muslim” has premiered in Amsterdam. Film maker Chris Belloni travelled to Morocco to make the movie with the intention of discovering the conditions for homosexuals in an Islamic country.
May 29, 2012 Following statements last week from a member of the Sharia4Holland threatening politician Geert Wilders, the Freedom Party called for a ban on the organization. Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten stated that the organization posed a violent risk in the country. Though a ban is impossible as the organization is not a legal…
May 28, 2012 According to a former commander of the al-Shabaab organization, members of the Somali diaspora in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States are being actively recruited to launch attacks against these countries. The information comes from Mary Harper reporting for the BBC, who spoke to former al-Shabaab member Mohamaed Farah al…
