Two Islamic school teachers who beat a 10-year-old boy with a stick for reciting the Koran incorrectly have been jailed for a year. Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 24, admitted willful cruelty to a child under 16. The four attacks took place at the Jamia Mosque in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, between May and…
The first agency dedicated to Islamic finance is coming to Chelles, NorrAssur announced on Friday. The startup, up until recently only active online, specializes in Islamic finance and respects Islamic law, shariah, and most notably prohibits speculation and interest or investments considered taboo in society (tobacco, alcohol, arms…) For the moment it offers only investment…
A leader of France’s top Muslim organization is criticizing a court decision that could jeopardize a decades-old policy in which public schools offer substitutes to pork when the meat turns up on lunch menus. Abdullah Zekri of the French Council of the Muslim Faith said Thursday he is worried that the ruling a day earlier…
A French court on Thursday (Aug. 13) upheld a local move to stop offering alternatives to pork in school cafeterias, sparking dismay on the part of Muslim leaders and possibly setting a precedent for municipalities elsewhere in the country. The court found in favor of the mayor of a town in eastern France who announced…
A new book in Dutch was published recently on Islam in the Netherlands called: “Islam in transformation: Piety and pleasure amongst Muslims within and outside of the Netherlands,” edited by the prominent Dutch scholars on Islam Joas Wagemakers and Martijn de Koning (Radboud University). This is a translation of the pamphlet of the book: The…
