Britain’s Treasury is likely to back plans to issue Shariah law-compliant bonds, officials said Sunday – amid continuing debate about the application of Islamic laws in the UK. Treasury chief Alistair Darling, who will present his annual budget on March 12, plans to issue the Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, to tap into a fast-growing…
Gema Mart_n, director of Casa Arabe, believes that the use of terms Islamic terrorism or Islamist to qualify the acts of groups such as Al Qaeda has contributed to the growth of intolerance towards Muslims in Europe. As an alternative name, Gema Mart_n suggests alqaedist terrorism and also defends the need to promote seminars that…
Special thanks to the Islam in Europe Blog for providing this translation. The Dutch intelligence service AIVD recently released a report on the development of Islamic neo-radicalism titled “Radical Dawa Changing, The Rise of Islamic Neo-Radicalism in the Netherlands” (Radicale dawa in verandering: De opkomst van islamitisch neoradicalisme in Nederland.). This report follows two previous…
The president of the Swiss Council of Religions, which was set up last year, says interreligous dialogue is more necessary now than ever. Thomas Wipf gave an interview to swissinfo in the context of a new dossier on the changing face of religion in Switzerland, which was launched on Monday. But Wipf says the principles…
(by Lorenzo Vidino, an analyst at the Investigative Project and the Jebsen Center at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is author of “Al Qaeda in Europe.”) As the United States battles insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan while fearing the next terrorist attack on our shores, it has become apparent that the solution…
