Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercogovina have been ordered to pay $42 million to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war. All of the 16 mosques in town of Banja Luka of the Serb-run Rebpublika Srpska were destroyed during the 1992-1995 war. Hundreds of religious buildings were additionally destroyed, in addition to…
Austria‘s Islamic Community says it has revoked the license of a Muslim religion teacher who allegedly gave his students anti-Semitic pamphlets. The announcement Friday came a day after the Islamic Community suspended the man for allegedly encouraging students to abstain from “Jewish businesses”. The teacher in question taught at a regular school in the Austrian…
Plans to open the first Islamic primary school in Spain are awaiting approval in Granada. The proposal would provide the province’s sizable Muslim population with the opportunity to give their children an Islamic education in Spain, where schools are secular by law, though religious education material focuses almost entirely on Catholicism. “We are not trying…
Austrian politicians and media are raising significant concerns over a recent survey that said a fifth of all Islamic religious education teachers here hold anti-democratic views. In the survey of 210 teachers, conducted as part of a PhD thesis, 21.9 percent agreed with the following statement: “I oppose democracy because it is not compatible with…
50 mosques and 50 synagogues representing more than 100,000 Muslims and Jews paired up throughout the United States to learn from each other, and mutually commit to combating anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. In Saint Louis members of Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel and the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis visited each others’ houses of worship to…
