In Spain, some mosques have been funded with capital from Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The great mosques of Madrid, Marbella and Malaga were all funded with Saudi capital. Meanwhile, the Moroccan government has been linked with various Muslim organizations in Ceuta, including the FEERI, or Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities….
The Spanish Army is facing discrimination complaints coming from Muslims soldiers. Any soldiers that show sympathy or proximity with radicals or Islamists will be kept under close surveillance. Thirty percent of the 8,000 soldiers deployed in Ceuta and Melilla are Muslims; for most of them, being in the army it is a valid career path….
A shortage of teachers of Islam is leading Islamic community leaders to question the government’s commitment to the freedom of religion. In the current school year, there are only 41 Islamic teachers in Spain’s schools, compared to almost 120,000 Muslim children in Spanish schools – more than half in the North African enclaves of Melilla…
In Ceuta, the Spanish National Police has detained Mohamed T.A., alias El Nene, who is considered one of the most important hashish drug dealers in the world, and had previously escaped from the maximum security prison of Morocco, Kenitra.
The debate about the integration of immigrants continues in Spain as the conservative opposition is pledging to toughen integration requirements if they win the March 9th elections. The main opposition, the conservative People’s Party (PP) plans to push schools to ban the Islamic headscarf with the exception of the North African enclaves of Ceuta and…
