During a Friday sermon at the Aicha mosque in Montpellier, imam Mohamed Khattabi discussed Robert Chardon, UMP mayor of Venelles who called for the banning Islam in France. For imam Khattabi, “They must stop treating us as foreigners. Muslims have been in France for a long time and they’re here to stay. France is their…
Sunlight slants across a classroom at the Catholic University of Lyon, where the Bible dominates a recent lecture. The subject may seem unsurprising in this ancient city that was once a bastion of French Catholicism. But the dozen or so people jotting down notes are not theology students. One young woman wears a headscarf….
The 80 Muslims in Bressuire are calling for a more suitable place of worship, arguing that the Muslim community has become too large for the current prayer space. The local religious association hopes to buy a house to construct a prayer room, but the project has brought about considerable opposition from local residents and politicians….
Friday prayer was canceled last Friday in Bègles. For several weeks residents have reported over two hundred cars coming from throughout Aquitaine to attend Friday prayer. The prayer room was identified has harboring radical Islamist and the phenomenon appeared to be growing. Fifteen police officers arrived and arrested a 30 year-old man reported to…
The “Konrad Adenauer” foundation, the political foundation of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) has initiated the Forum, stating to provide a platform for “liberal Islam”. Muslims in Germany would not be represented sufficiently. The chair of the Adenauer foundation Hans-Gert Pöttering described the Forum as enriching contribution to the current debate about Islam in…
