Tag: local level
The niqab and burqa debate continues in the Spanish Town Councils.
The ban of wearing burqa and niqab continues at local level in the Spanish Town Councils. On the one side the Town Council of...
Demands for muslim cemeteries stirs debate
The president of the Coordination of Islamic Organizations in Switzerland, Farhad Afshar, has called for a legal solution on the federal level with respect...
Muslims treated better in Switzerland than in Europe
In an interview with two German-language newspapers (“Tages-Anzeiger” and “Bund”), Muslim intellectual and Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan stated that “most Muslims in Switzerland come...
Swiss debate over a national representative body for Muslims
In the past few years, many European states have seen the establishment of a national body to represent their respective Muslim population.
Unlike Christianity,...
