July 7, 2014 The head of the Hague-based International Centre for Counter-Terrorism has recommended that the Dutch security service provide more information to local authorities and civil servants, increasing transparency to build trust within families and with authorities. He discourages the use of “tough talk” from politicians and families for its potential to intensify matters….
June 23, 2014 The Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Muslim organisation, has condemned the practice of female genital mutilation as “un-Islamic” and told its members that FGM risks bringing their religion into disrepute. The influential MCB has for the first time issued explicit guidance, which criticises the practice and says it is “no…
July 1, 2014 In a new study released Tuesday, the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that “concern about Islamic extremism is high among countries with substantial Muslim populations.” This comes at a particularly fraught moment in the Middle East: the jihadist militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized whole swaths of…
July 4, 2014 More than 100 Islamic prayer-leaders from various denominations of Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims have signed a letter calling on British Muslims not to travel to Iraq or Syria to fight. “We urge the British Muslim communities to continue the generous and tireless efforts to support all of those affected by the crisis…
The latest edition, for the year 2013, of the German Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution, published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on June 18, 2014. As recently reported in Euro-Islam, the latest report warns about the rise of xenophobic violence and the Jihadist threat in Germany. The summary of the report’s findings…
