News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
News Agencies – September 20, 2012 France’s Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing devoted to Islamic art, with the long-gestating project debuting during a period of increased tension with the Muslim community over a French publication’s caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The Louvre’s new addition, which cost nearly 100 million euros (about $127
MAP, March 20, 2012 Andre Azoulay, adviser to King Mhammed VI, called, on Monday night in Rome, for a new Euro-Mediterranean partnership built on fairness, ambition, parity, respect and above all mutual knowledge. Azoulay stressed the need for all partners in the region to build together a space governed by a new road map and
Morocco has called over 100 imams in Spain to take part in a meeting aimed at fighting Islamic radicalism among Moroccan immigrants. The meeting, which took place in Marrakesh, discussed “the organization of Moroccan immigration in Spain from the religious point of view.” Moroccan King Mohammed VI launched a religious reform initiative to fight radicalism,