The number of Muslims in Galicia doubles since the 2008 census

In total there are 14, 296 Muslims residing in the Galician community, according to the latest population census of the Union of Islamic Communities in Spain (UCIDE), which is more than double of the 6,709 recorded by the organization in its balance of 2008. Still they only represent 1% of the total of Muslim population…

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The Converts to Islam

“What I like about Islam? Certainly the concept of individual responsibility, the lack of an intermediary between the believer and God because, in Islam, there is no confession and the imam is not a priest” says Alessandro Paolantoni, a 45 year old Roman who converted to Islam in 2001. “I testify that there is no…

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Spanish Muslims denounce the displacement of their mosques

03 June 2013 The president of the Union of the Islamic Communities of Spain, Riay Tatary, has criticized the “exile” with which “some municipalities” want to “punish” their mosques by moving them to “uninhabited areas such as industrial ones” or the suburbs. Tatary also added that this measure of the urbanization plans makes it harder…

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Islamedia interviewed the imam and president of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain, Mr. Riay Tatary.

13 May 2013   Islamedia interviewed  the imam and president of the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain, Mr. Riay Tatary. I- What is the Islamic religious perspective of terrorism? RT-Both the Koran and the Sunna express prohibition and condemnation of the grave sin of killing another human being, this transgression being matched and related…

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Union of Islamic Communities of Murcia rejects any act of terrorism and says he did not know the prisoner

23 April 2013 The spokesman for the Union of Islamic Communities in Murcia (UCID-Murcia), Mohamed Reda El Qadi, expressed his opposition to any terrorist act “even in the name of any religion Islamic, Catholic or Protestant.”

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