The shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., is the day’s worst example of hateful violence — but it is not, sadly, the only one. Early Monday morning, someone set fire to the Islamic Society of Joplin during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. The mosque couldn’t be saved, so now there are 50…
Tucked into the corner of a series of industrial parks in West Valley City, the Khadeeja Islamic Center’s golden dome and minaret might strike some passersby as out of place, even foreign to this American suburb where the dominant architectural features are grey box stores and white church steeples. To be sure, the Islamic Center…
JOPLIN, Mo. — One simply has to type the words “mosque fires” into a search engine to determine how common fires like the one Wednesday at the Islamic Society of Joplin mosque are. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have tracked dozens of fires, firebombings and incidents of vandalism at…
19 June 2012 A controversy sparked when the University of York’s Islamic Society invited Yusuf Chambers last week to speak at their event entitled ‘Patience, Perseverance and the Final Exam’. The event was criticised by Stand for Peace, one of Britain’s leading Jewish-Muslim interfaith organisations, for Chambers anti-homosexual views that he had expressed earlier….
30 Apr 2012 London Metropolitan University is one of the most Muslim populated universities in Britain. Around 20 per cent of the students of the university are Muslims, thus it has an important place in debates surrounding British Muslims. The university attracted considerable public attention in 2006 when the police raided portable buildings used by…
