A well-known Holocaust survivor has said he strongly opposes the international anti-Islam conference slated to take place in Germany next month, despite his critical stance on Islam. German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Ralph Giordano has come out strongly against the planned so-called Anti-Islamization Congress — a meeting of extreme-right European political forces — planned…
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Sch_uble is meeting with Muslim groups in Berlin for the third so-called “Islam Conference”. The aim of the annual conference is to improve the integration of Germany’s approximately 3.5 million Muslim residents, most of them of Turkish background. Topics to be discussed include the consensus on social values, religious issues and…
Muslim delegates of the German Islam Conference met in October to discuss their further strategy. Although not announced in advance, the German chancellor Angela Merkel joined the group. Mariam Lau reports.
The leader of the National Union of Students, Zamzam Ibrahim, has decided to withdraw from speaking at two sessions of the Conservative Party conference, taking place this week, after a fringe event of the conference, called “Challenging Islamophobia”, that took place this past Sunday contained “disturbing, downright Islamophobia”. She wrote on twitter: I came to…
Peterborough’s mosques joined together for a peace conference to confront what it believes is an unfair portrayal of Islam. The inter-faith conference held last Saturday at the Faizan-e-Madinah Mosque in Gladstone Street was attended by over 160 people, including guest speaker Lord Nazir Ahmed, member of the House of Lords. Other guests included police area…
