Controversy about Islam prayer at Ontario school continues

The Globe and Mail – July 8, 2011 More than two-thirds of the population that surrounds Valley Park, in Toronto’s northeast, have arrived in the past 20 years, primarily from India, Pakistan and more recently Afghanistan – reflecting Canada’s shifting urban demographics. The school draws many of its students from Thorncliffe Park, a one-kilometre horseshoe…

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Citizens Forge a New Alliance against “Islamicization”

9 February 2011 A number of neighborhood anti-mosque initiatives in Vienna are coming together to create a new anti-Islam federation, the “Pro-Austria Movement” (BPÖ), also called the “Federation against Islamic Multipurpose Centers and the Islamicization of Austria.” The new federation brings together four separate citizens’ initiatives (Dammstraße, Trostgasse, Rappgasse, and the “Garten-Gallier”) which had been…

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New Turkish Movie Sparks Interreligious Controversy

3 February 2010 The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has called on the chancellors of both Austria and Germany to prohibit the new Turkish film, “Valley of the Wolves: Palestine,” characterizing it an “immediate danger to Muslim-Jewish relations.” Originally a popular Turkish TV series which has since been made into a number of movies, this latest one…

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Dutch Politician to Establish Anti-Islam “Alliance”

Geert Wilders, leader of the right wing Freedom Party (PVV) announced Thursday that he will establish and international umbrella organization to “fight for freedom and against Islam”, ANP reports. The International Freedom Alliance is intended to include individuals and organizations from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and France, and to be formalized by…

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Dutch muslims targeted in voting campaigns

Various religious and social organizations are addressing the Netherlands’ Muslim population in advance of national elections on June 9, 2010. While some organizations are encouraging active participation in the election, others are urging Muslims not to vote. Radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir set up a website and handed out flyers at Dutch mosques urging Muslims…

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