Trump’s third Muslim ban overruled for breaching the U.S. Constitution
A federal appeals court ruled that the Muslim ban violates the Constitution’s Establishment Clause, which forbids religious discrimination by the government.
Immigration and Integration
Yaghoob Foroutan: New Zealand’s Muslim population along ethnic lines
In his article ‘Muslim Minority of New Zealand in Global Context; Demographic Perspective’ (in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (2017) 37(4) 511-518), Foroutan advocates a demographic and socio-economic study of New Zealand’s growing Muslim population that includes distinctions along lines of ethnic origin, rather than one that simply treats that section of the population as…
Documentary on young German-Syrian couple causes stir in Germany, giving free rein to xenophobic outbursts
For more than two decades, Germany’s public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have jointly operated KiKA, a channel aiming at a young audience aged three to thirteen. The TV channel – whose acronym stands for “children’s channel” – has led a relatively quiet life for most of its existence. For the past two weeks, however, it…
U.S. Muslim population set to double by 2040, Pew Research Center finds
The Pew Research Center estimates the U.S. Muslim population will have risen to 8.1 million by 2040 due to the high fertility rates of the demographic, and the continued migration of Muslims to the country.
Pew Research Center projects growing Muslim populations in Europe – report
In a recent study, renowned US think tank Pew has chosen to address a highly sensitive political issue: the number of Muslims living in European countries. The study, which was published on November 29, 2017, promises to “provide[…] the first estimates of the growing size of the Muslim population in Europe following the wave of…