December 2013 In the heated controversies over immigration and Islam in the early 21st century, Muslims have widely become associated in media debates and the popular imagery with religious fundamentalism. Against this, others have argued that religiously fundamentalist ideas are found among only a small minority of Muslims living in the West, and that religious fundamentalism can equally…
A Letter from the Islamic Community to Napolitano (the Newly re-elected President). Italian piazzas have become spaces of heated tensions where popular discontent is most visible. Today, on behalf of the Italian Islamic community Sharif Lorenzini, Vice President of the Islamic Community in Puglia wrote a letter to Giorgio Napolitano, the newly re-elected president. Lorenzini…
Hurriyet reports that while some Muslims in the Netherlands are concerned about the rise of anti-Islam party PVV in recent elections, others feel the hostility is unlikely to last long. Rather, they view the antipathy as a symptom of a lack of knowledge about the religion which does not reflect the day-to-day reality of their…
The second in command of Al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri has threatened that France will “pay for its crimes” regarding its “hostility” toward the Islamic Headscarf according to an American surveillance Center of Islamicist websites called SITE. Al-Zawahiri claimed that “France claims to be a secular country, but at its heart it has a hatred for Muslims.”…
A German far right group has stirred Muslim anger worldwide by holding a three-day “Anti-Islamisation Conference” to protest against the construction of mosques and Muslim immigration. Prominent members of Europe’s far right, including French “Front National” leader Jean-Marie le Pen and Belgian far-right politician Filip Dewinter, have said they will attend the meeting in Cologne…
