The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) welcomed a resignation call by the New Mexico Republican party concerning local GOP leader Marcia Stirman, who wrote that Barack Obama is “a Muslim socialist” and “Muslims are our enemies” in a recent letter. A party official said that Ms. Stirman’s statements do not speak for the Republican party….
A panel of Christian and Muslims gathered to affirm that all people can be both citizens and believers, and that being a citizen – or being a person of faith – are not mutually exclusive identities. This is a point made in a final statement released from the conference “Being Citizens of Europe and a…
The House of Lords today drew stark attention to the conflict between sharia and UK law, calling the Islamic legal code “wholly incompatible” with human rights legislation. The remarks came as the Lords considered the case of a woman who, if she was sent back to Lebanon, would be obliged under sharia law to hand…
Berlin senators and members of the Muslim community launched a scheme this week to teach imams more about German society and boost dialogue between religious and non-religious groups. About 25 imams from all over the capital have registered to join the pilot program including German history and politics lessons, with the aim of becoming better…
A criminal court in Paris convicted nine suspects on charges linked to the financing of and association with a terrorism group. One of these was Safé Bourada, a French-Algerian former prison inmate who established an Islamic group that called for armed jihad in France. The group, known as “Ansar al-Fath” or Partisans of Victory, was…
