September 10, 2010 Last Friday the Islamic communities of Spain celebrated the end of Ramadan. Usually, the local government let different public spaces for the main Islamic celebrations. In Lleida (Catalonia), for example, more than 3,000 Muslims met in a local sport hall. The media reported Islamic celebration at different locations as Zaragoza, Granada, Murcia…
September 6, 7, 8, 2010 Ángel Ros, the mayor of Lleida, is putting pressure to the Muslim community of North Street in Lleida to move their mosque to another location. In the last months several incidents has been surrounding this mosque related to the prayer’s room capacity. Consequently, the relations between the members of the…
Lleida´s City Council has ordered the closure of the mosque in Nord. The Security Councillor has argued that the seating capacity of the mosque has been exceeded several times without attending the town council hearings. This closure has taken place after the controversial statements made by Abdelwahab Houzi, the imam of the Nord mosque, during…
The ban of wearing burqa and niqab continues at local level in the Spanish Town Councils. On the one side the Town Council of Tàrrega has decided not to ban the wearing of burqa and niqab in the public spaces and on the other side the city hall of Lleida has decided to ban it….
The Party for Catalonia [Partit per Catalunya] has submitted a motion to the Cervera Town Council (in the province of Lleida) in order to declare the town free of mosques. According to those who submitted the motion, mosques are not like other religions’ places of worship because they have a political nature and aim to…
