Bosnia: Gay festival closes after clashes with hardline Muslims

Bosnia’s first gay pride festival has been forced underground after 10 people were injured when protestors attacked visitors on the festival’s opening night. Dozens of people chanting “kill the gays” punched, kicked, and threw stones at people leaving the event. Islamic leaders were angry that the festival of pride, which includes art, films, and workshops…

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    Why Obama Should Visit a Mosque

    Fear-mongering about Islam is a global industry. Barack Obama has a unique power to break the cycle, not least by emboldening moderate Muslims to denounce terror. I’ll admit it: I’m thin-skinned about the kinds of slurs and innuendo about Muslims that have accompanied Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Years of being subjected to them while I…

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      New magazine Cités launched seeking a European Islam

      The new director of the magazine Cit_s, Yves Charles Zarka, explains how his new publication focuses on the emergence of a new Islam in Europe. For instance, in his examination of Sarajevo, Zarka questioned whether Islam has changed in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the fall of Communism. The authors in the most recent edition question the role…

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      No Koran School – The Islamic Gymnasium in Vienna

      260 pupils from Turkey, Morocco and Bosnia are studying at the Islamic Gymnasium in Vienne at the moment. Five prayers per day and controversial discussions about evolutionary theory are part of the curriculum. In the end, the will get a proper Austrian A-Level, the Matura. Emir Numanovic reports.

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      Bosnia: Fundamentalist Islam Finds Fertile Ground in Bosnia

      The Dayton Peace Accords called for the removal of foreign combatants from Bosnia after the Balkans war. But hundreds of mujahedeen fighters stayed, and today they are successfully spreading their fundamentalist Islamist views. Renate Flottau reports

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