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New Radicalization Figures
Launched in April 2014 by the Interior Minister to stem the proliferation of departures to Syria, the France’s initiative to combat radicalization has reached its cruising speed. Using a telephone hotline and local police departments, the framework allows state services to monitor situations that escaped intelligence services. Information collected over the course of a year…
Platform of the Democratic Union of French Muslims
Economy and Finance “Stopping investment will inevitably harm our Nation’s future and we will find ourselves in the same situations as countries being destroyed by the weight of their debts. Austerity, as an economic model, has clearly demonstrated and consistently proved its weaknesses.” Islamic Finance “We hope to use our ethics as an advantage in…
The Education of ‘Jihadi John’
Last week, the man called “Jihadi John” by the world’s media was unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born Muslim and naturalized British citizen from London. Not only that, but the Islamic State’s most notorious Western recruit was identified as a graduate in computer science from the University of Westminster. Majid Nawaz claims that the University of…
Austria Passes ‘Law on Islam’ Requiring Austrian Muslim Groups To Use German-Language Qurans
Reuters | By Shadia Nasralla Austria’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday that seeks to regulate how Islam is administered, singling out its large Muslim minority for treatment not applied to any other religious group. The “Law on Islam” bans foreign funding for Islamic organizations and requires any group claiming to represent Austrian Muslims to…
Responses: Fundamentalism among Muslims
Sociologist Ruud Koopmans conducted a research on Muslims and concluded that 44% of the Muslims can be labelled as fundamentalist. Although most of them have a peaceful mindset, their ideas could be a breeding ground for terror, such as the Charlie Hebdo attacks. A lot of readers reacted with enthusiasm to the article about Koopmans…