30-year old Abdullah Kabakebji, a young Syrian-Italian Muslim who is the former founder and leader of Italy’s Association of Young Muslims, has been appointed the head of Milan’s mosque. Kabakebji was elected as the director of Milan’s House of Islamic Culture, also known by local Muslims as the via Padova mosque. The House of Islamic…
Abdul Malik, who hoped two years ago to become Bristol’s first Muslim Lord Mayor, is quitting the city council. But the 35-year-old Easton ward councillor, who will stand down at the local elections in June, is not about to shirk his municipal duties. He will continue having a say in what goes on. Only this…
35-year old Fatima Elatik was appointed leader of Amsterdam’s district council of Zeeberg, and is the first political administrator to wear a headscarf at her job. Elatik, born in Amsterdam, of a Moroccan family background, is a member of the Labor party. Elatik however, has stated that she does not wanted to be identified as…
Muslims in the city of Sassuolo in northern Italy protested against what they claim is the town council’s refusal to allow the local Muslim community to build a mosque. “Tomorrow we will perform Friday prayers in the street, to protest against the municipality for not allowing us to have a mosque,” said spokesperson Hisham Abu…
Europe’s right-wing populists want to build a united front to battle what they call the continent’s creeping Islamization at a conference set to take place in Cologne this weekend. Powerless to stop the event, local officials are anticipating the arrival of thousands of counterprotesters. Cologne’s Heumarkt, a cobblestone square in the city’s Old Town, is…
