Administration of Islamic Affairs in Secular States Southeast European Experience

Call for Papers for the International Conference The administration of Islamic affairs and representation of Muslims in secular states have become hot issues in Western European debates on the social integration of Muslim citizens. South East Europe has over a century of experience in this area. Muslim communities in the region have developed well-established autochthonous…

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Greece: After a new holistic education program, the number of Muslim pupils grows in schools of northern Greece

The number of Muslim children entering secondary education in Thessaloniki has grown fourfold, ten years after a groundbreaking program was introduced to produce modern materials for speakers of other languages whose cultural identity was once deemed incompatible with mainstream teaching methods. Among the program’s successes has been the introduction of bilingual textbooks, schoolbooks, digital and…

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Greece: Muslims living in Athens voice displeasure over mosque delay

Muslims in Athens are voicing their displeasure concerning the delay of a mosque construction that would house tens of thousands of worshipers. The mosque would allow for many Athenian Muslims adequate place to pray and gather, instead of using abandoned factories or converted coffee shops as makeshift prayer houses, as they have been doing for…

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Greece: Protests in Athens against police treatment of immigrants

Hundreds of people protested in central Athens regarding the treatment of immigrants by Greek police, following the recent deaths of two South-Asians near a police office. Protest organizers said that a 24-year old Bangladeshi man died when he fell in a ravine after a scuffle near an immigrant police station on January 3rd. His death…

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Greece: Greece to Pay Muslim Imams

The conservative government in Greece announced Thursday its decision to give a salary to 240 imams who serve the Muslim minority in Thrace, in the north-east of Greece, in a gesture of goodwill towards this population, which will also serve to better regulate the sermons. At present, only Orthodox priests are salaried by the Greek…

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