By Xavier Ternisien NOISY-LE-GRAND – In compliance with court ruling, the police evacuated Muslims from a company’s building. The more than 10 thousand Muslims, about one-sixth of the town’s total population, have tried several times before to purchase an adequate site of worship, but the municipality has thwarted their attempts so far. A group of…
Italy convened a Muslim Advisory Council in order to “solve the problems of integration” and to constitute a “Italian Islam”. Minister of Interior, Giuseppe Pisanu said that, “in a country where Islam is the second religion and where 35 % of the immigrants are Moslem, it was necessary to establish a suitable form of dialogue”….
LE BOURGET, France, April 11 (AFP) – Twenty-two thousand people attended the annual rally of the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF) outside Paris on Sunday, considerably higher than the attendance last year, police said. The rally was taking place in the context of the US-led occupation of Iraq and the French government’s controversial decision…
