A policeman has been knocked unconscious and two others have been injured during a protest in London against the fighting in Gaza. An initially peaceful demonstration ended with a group of protesters throwing missiles at police and smashing windows on Kensington High Street near the Israeli Embassy. Riot officers from the Metropolitan Police force charged…
A group set up to advise the government on the concerns of young Muslims has written to the Prime Minister asking him to condemn the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza as “violent extremism”. The Young Muslim Advisory Group, launched by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls last October, was set up to help the government tackle issues…
Muslim Vld politican Hicham El Mzairh and chief editor of the Belgian Jewish magazine ‘Joods Actueel’ are making a joint appeal for peace and calm in Antwerp, after recent tensions in the city mounted over the conflict in the Gaza Strip. The two want to make it clear that there are more similarities than differences…
In Lille, France, Tariq Ramadan urged support of the people of Gaza, and mobilization among Muslims to support the Palestinian people, and also denounce anti-Jewish sentiments: “we are against all racism, against anti-Semitism” but criticizing or rejecting Israeli policy is not tantamount to anti-Semitism. Ramadan called for an “awaking of the conscience” and a “reasoned…
The Islamic Cultural Center appealed to Italian president Giorgio Napoletano to press for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Secretary-general of the centre, Abdellah Redouane, addressed the letter to the president. “Prayers are accompanied by broken-hearted anguish, pain, expressions of sadness and concern. Men, women, and citizens wherever they are in the world, feel…
