Ingrid Mattson was chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural prayer service Wednesday. Mattson has been the guest of honor at State Department dinners and has met with senior Pentagon officials during the Bush administration. However, in 2007 and as recently as last July, federal prosecutors in Dallas filed court documents linking the Hartford,…
The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has inflamed passions around the world. In Germany, home to Europe’s second-largest Muslim community, calls are growing to end the bloodshed and spare civilian lives. Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups have long feuded over who holds the moral high-ground in this ongoing conflict, but consensus is widespread that non-combatants…
Jewish communities in Germany and Switzerland are facing a growing number of threats and anti-Semitic incitement since the outbreak of the IDF operation in Gaza. The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday in an exclusive interview that there had been an increased number of…
Two Muslim organisations have called for a boycott of Barclays Bank after it closed the accounts of Bolton-based charity the Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT). The move followed claims that the charity was indirectly helping to fund the Palestinian organisation Hamas. UWT has donated more than £200,000 over the past four years to another UK registered…
British Muslims are organising a boycott of Barclays Bank after it closed the accounts of an Islamic charity that operates in some of the world’s terror hot spots. Barclays has given the Bradford and Bolton-based Ummah Welfare Trust just 30 days to move millions of pounds, but the bank has refused to explain why. The…
