11.09.2011 In light of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Deutsch Türkische Nachrichten interviewed Lamya Kaddor, a scholar of Islamic studies of Syrian origins and actively involved in introducing Islamic education in German public schools, about her recent visit to New York and Ground Zero and the scaremongering by Interior Minister Friedrich. Kaddor thinks…
04.09.2011 A week before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Germany’s Interior Minister Friedrich told the Bild (tabloid) newspaper that Germany was home to an estimated 1000 people who can be identified as potential Islamic terrorists, 20 of whom have actually trained in terrorist camps. While Friedrich commended the work of German security services…
News Agencies – August 30, 2011 In waiting for the construction of the Institut des cultures d’islam (ICI or Institute of Islamic Cultures) that should be partially complete by January 2013, practicing Muslims in Paris’ 18th district continue to pray in the streets. This practice has engendered great debate. National Front leader Marine Le…
News Agencies – August 8, 2011 Muslims who have been praying in the streets of a Paris neighbourhood have been offered a disused barracks to pray in, French Interior Minister Claude Guéant has announced. Muslim leaders have visited the site and agreed that it is suitable, he said. “Praying in the street is something…
News Agencies – August 2, 2011 According to the president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui, 100-150 mosques are currently being built in France. Moussaoui said that most are financed by the worshipers and very few from abroad. French Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, has said that in the past decade the…
