News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
February 9, 2014 SHORTLY BEFORE SUNUP, a dozen or so students at the University of California, San Diego, stumbled dutifully out of bed. They ironed their collared shirts, knotted their ties and piled into their cars. Their destination was the Islamic Center of San Diego, where they were to be initiated into the country’s
January 22, 2014 Pisa has been influenced by the Islamic culture, even in its monuments, although normally we do not remember this history. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, there was an exchange with Islamic culture and now that that Italian cities are increasingly more populated by people of various backgrounds including Arabs.
January 8, 2014 GENOA, The Mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria said “yes” to the construction of the Mosque in the neighborhood of Darsena in Genoa. The mayor explained in a letter to the president of European Muslims. The letter came after the League of European Muslims had expressed its readiness to buy a building
We begin with a five-story building (possibly six), with the mosque or prayer hall on the ground floor, a tea room on the second, a large Islamic bookstore with books in more than ten languages on the third, a museum of Islamic culture and cultural center on the fourth and offices and international centers on
July 13 2013 The Dutch municipalities of Alkmaar has stationed “Islam-friendly” rubbish bins in two of its districts. The “food and bio-containers” are intended to collect bread and other food remains from residents. The municipality website states that “the reason that special food containers have been stationed is to do with the fact that