The Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE) has claimed that the decision of the Islamic Commission in Spain (CIE) in the last 17 of November to elect Mounir Benjelloun Andaloussi Azhari as its new president, “did not fit right” by which they will put the necessary legal action to challenge it. They contest the…
26 October 2012 More than a million and a half Muslims in Spain celebrate the Feast of the Sacrifice in which they must sacrifice a lamb in remembrance of the moment when God asked Abraham’s sacrifice of his eldest son, and then changed it to a lamb. Furthermore, this event is the culmination of the…
27 September 2012 We are still assisting to the free dissemination of offenses to the religious feelings, and as so we, the Spanish Muslim religious community, and especially our youth, have been surprised by the incorrect treatment made by the satirical weekly publication both on the cover and inside of its latest issue, not getting…
19 september 2012 Riay Tatary, president of the Union of Islamic Communities, accused of “deliberate provocation” the different publishing of Muhammad’s cartoons. The Imam of Madrid condemns the “acts of violence that are happening in the Arab world” because they are “neither justified nor do they lead to anything good.” “In the Spanish Constitution, says…
21 August 2012 The president of the Union of Islamic Communities in Ceuta (Ucidce) Laarbi Maateis, has censored the “scoundrels political parties and associations ” who “used the hijab – the headscarf – as decoy during electoral campaigns and cause alarm for the rest of the year “after an association that works in defense of…
