News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
Ehsan Jami, founder of the Committee for Former Muslims, presented his film – entitled “An interview with Muhammad.” The short 15-minute film looks back on the prophet Muhammad’s life as an interviewer questions him on women’s rights, non-believers, and Judaism. Jami asserts that the film is not anti-Islamic, but that he hopes the film will
The editors of a new book with compiled testimonies of ex-Muslims say they were not surprised when the Council on American-Islamic Relations attacked their work, without first reading the anthology. However, the group was shocked that the New York Daily News characterized CAIR as the voice of moderate Muslims. The compilation, titled Why We Left
The chairman of the council of former Muslims, Mina Ahadi, opposes the plans to build new mosques in Cologne and Frankfurt. Mosques are a symbol of Political Islam, Ahadi said. Germany had already enough Mosques and religion should remain private.
The council of former Muslims is convinced that Muslim organizations in Germany are secret enemies of the liberal social order. Intimidations, radicalizations, and honor killings are clear signals, the council warns.
ROTTERDAM – National Coordinator for Anti-terrorism (NCTb) Tjibbe Joustra fears the effects of the tone that some prominent Dutch are taking in the discussion of Islam, he says in the AD on Monday. The paper claims that Joustra is referring to statements from MP Geert Wilders and Ehsan Jami, founder of the Committee for Former