French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently outlined plans to double the amount of university courses teaching Islam in an attempt to curb the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in France. During a speech in the eastern city of Strasbourg, Valls affirmed that supporting education in France was essential to erasing the ignorance that makes…
The Moroccan-Dutch Mayor of the city of Rotterdam (53) was chosen by the Dutch rightist magazine Weekly Elsevier as Dutch Person of the Year 2014. The city of Rotterdam has had much negative media exposure over the years because of issues related to migration and integration, being one of the cities with the largest migrant…
Recent research by the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) shows that youths of non-Western descent that were born in the Netherlands are still running behind social-economically in comparison with native Dutch youths. Education is said to play a crucial role in this social-economic backlog. Non-western youths enjoy a lower education on average and sooner…
British Muslims are being urged to wear a new ‘poppy hijab’ as a challenge to extremist groups who ‘spout hatred’ towards the Armed Forces. The campaign is being backed by the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), and profits from its sale will be donated to Poppy Appeal. Sughra Ahmed, President of ISB, said it’s a…
“Social responsibility” will be the slogan of mosques opening doors to the public at the German unification day, October 3rd . The central council of Muslims calls all citizens to take social responsibility at school, at social facilities and at neighborhoods. Civic engagement would be part of social responsibility and community life. That said, Muslims…
