Immigrant numbers to be limited across Catalan schools; Valencia sets up ‘contract of integration’

    Newly drafted laws in the Catalonia region of Spain will limit immigrants in public and other colleges as part of a regional education law. The law will permit different percentages of foreigners in certain education areas, and those areas with too few foreigners will be able to increase the number of positions by up to…

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      Catholic Church critical of Catalan law protecting the establishment of mosques

      Building a space of worship is no longer an impossible undertaking, be it a church, mosque, or synagogue – The Generalitit of Catalonia has approved a law that aims to eliminate the discretion of town halls, while at the same time, authorizing the opening of places of worship. The law suggests that health and safety…

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        Islam and Catalan

        The presence of new Catalans that express religious and cultural distinctive sensitivities are a challenge to the Catalan society. A recent symposium about Islam and Catalonia organized by the Islamic Catalan Council, debated the sentiment and the ideology behind the two parts. In Catalonia there are more than 200,000 immigrants coming from a Muslim background….

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          The Catalan Islamic Council Warns of the Dangers of Connecting Politics and Terrorism

          The Catalan Islamic Council claims that the overlap between politics and so-called Islamic terrorism in Catalonia and the association of Islam and violence by authorities foments the radicalization of the youth sectors of the Islamic community. The Catalan Islamic Council’s president, Abdennur Prado, believes that the declarations of a police syndicate group stating the proliferation…

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            Play suspended due to lamb sacrifices

            After it came out that the drama group killed a lamb for every performance, Ahmed Ghazali’s play on Islamist terrorism was suspended in Spain. The Catalan-language play was titled El cel massa baix (The sky too low).

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