President Macron has announced a reform of French laicite: What does it mean for Islam?

Revealed in November by L’Opinion , the announcement by President Emmanuel Macron, to reform the 1905 law of separation of Church and state  is a turning point in his policy  towards religions. Originally in favour of a reform of French Islam without any impact regarding the French law of 1905 on secularism [laïcité], Macron admitted…

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Former German Green Party chairman co-founds initiative for ‘secular Muslims’ together with anti-Islam pundits

In the coming weeks, a new instalment of Germany’s controversial Islam Conference (Deutsche Islam Konferenz, DIK) will take place under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The DIK functions as a discussion forum at which state-picked ‘Muslim representatives’ meet with high-level policy-makers in order to debate the place of Islam in German…

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