Islam must reform, but the effort is not an internal Muslim struggle alone, and should include the rest of the world as well, Sheikh Hassan Chalghoumi said in Washington. Chalghoumi, the imam of the Drancy Mosque in France, spoke on Tuesday at the annual MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute)-Tom Lantos Archives on Anti-Semitism and…
The fundamentalist Salafist interpretation of Islam has gained popularity within France’s Muslim communities. French intelligence services believe that its rise is not a recent phenomenon, but is steadily increasing. According to police sources there are around 90 places of worship that preach Safalist interpretations out of 2,500 mosques. The number has doubled in five years….
A group of young British Muslims have declared their own “jihad” against Isis and all other terrorist groups. The Muslim Youth League UK announced an ideological holy war against the Islamic State at a conference in Glasgow on Sunday, saying militants had “no link with Islam or the Muslim community”. It is concerned that recruitment…
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…
