Muslim prisoners could be driven to extremism by a crude security-led approach that treats them all as potential terrorists, the chief inspector of prisons warns today. Dame Anne Owers said the treatment of Muslim prisoners as potential or actual terrorists is common despite the fact that fewer than 1% are in prison for terrorist-related offences….
Organized by: – The Danish Institute in Damascus – Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen – The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen – Department of Near and Middle East Civilizations, University of Toronto Applications are invited from graduate students working on their Masters or PhDs for up to 12 places…
The annual Metroscopia Report on the feelings of the Muslim Immigrants living in Spain was made public. The most commented conclusion was the fact that Muslims express to more trust for some Spanish institutions; such as Justice, the Parliament, the King and the Catholic Church, than Spaniards do. The results show a moderate and tolerant…
Renzo Guolo, Italian expert on Islam, deals with the problematic issue of “self-proclaimed” imams, and the lack of opportunities for training. He tries to analyze the causes of this phenomenon, linking it to the fact that Islam doesn’t have a central authority with which to interact with the State. For the majority of the European…
Trond Ali Linstad – a Norwegian convert to shi’ite Islam – published a manifest in Aftenposten, Monday January 25. The goals of this manifest are unclear. The fifteen items, abbreviated, reads as follows: 1. “Norwegian Muslims are to know how to relate to everyday life and to greater issues. This is a Muslim manifest for…
