September 20-22, 2010 The controversy about the Lleida´s mosque location goes on. Currently, the town council urged the Muslim community of Nord Street to find a new location for their prayer room. The city council offered an alternative location in an industrial zone but a report commissioned by the business owners of that area concludes…
September 6, 7, 8, 2010 Ángel Ros, the mayor of Lleida, is putting pressure to the Muslim community of North Street in Lleida to move their mosque to another location. In the last months several incidents has been surrounding this mosque related to the prayer’s room capacity. Consequently, the relations between the members of the…
August 11 2010 A Dutch court has ruled that the city council of Rotterdam was within its legal rights in dismissing academic Tariq Ramadan in August 2009. The prominent Islamic philosopher lost his job as city integration officer due to participation in a television program for a broadcast company financed by Iran. Ramadan, who was…
An association of Turkish academics plans to open a primary school in Freiburg, which ideally caters for all children, but bears a particular Turkish and Islamic outlook. The association would not be the first to open an educational institution for mainly Turkish children, but this time the project is influenced by a particular ideology, that…
Lleida´s City Council has ordered the closure of the mosque in Nord. The Security Councillor has argued that the seating capacity of the mosque has been exceeded several times without attending the town council hearings. This closure has taken place after the controversial statements made by Abdelwahab Houzi, the imam of the Nord mosque, during…
