A 22-year-old woman was arrested at Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez-Barajas Airport on Monday night, on suspicion that she was planning to fly to Turkey to join the militant group Islamic State (ISIS), Interior Ministry sources have told EL PAÍS. The woman is originally from a village in Huelva, in southern Spain, and had converted to Islam…
Six months after France launched an online campaign to tackle jihadist recruitment, FRANCE 24’s Observers decided to take stock of the government’s controversial initiative. Mourad Benchellali, an ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate who helps young people integrate themselves into society, took his mobile phone and went to sound out the unfiltered opinions of five young men for FRANCE…
Most people have heard of the term “hipster”, which conjures up images of hip young, middle-class urban adults with progressive ideas who are into indie music. But what of the mipster, the “Muslim hipster”? Is it a real or just an imaginary concept? And for young American Muslims, is the label a blessing or a…
As Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid, the end of the holy month of Ramadan, many are concerned that Islam is too often associated with negative images on TV and online. A new on demand TV service called Alchemiya is launching in the UK hoping to change perceptions and misconceptions of Islam. Alchemiya…
Under a torrent of projectiles and verbal abuse, a group of policemen flee a housing project in a notorious French ‘banlieue’, or suburb, near Paris. At least, that’s what a video that’s recently made the rounds on social media networks would like you to believe. But the truth is that the clip is taken from…
