News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
A total of 71 per cent of young Muslims in Malta feel they have been discriminated against, a European study has concluded. Seventy-one per cent of young Muslims in Malta said they were discriminated against while a third of young Muslims interviewed all over Europe said they had experienced the same. Also, 64 per cent
Nearly half of the African Muslims in Malta interviewed for an EU Fundamental Rights Agency report on discrimination with Muslims, reported discrimination when looking for employment. The report said that 43 percent of African Muslims in Malta reported discrimination when looking for work, but only 25 percent reported discrimination wile at work. 20 percent reported
Angelo Bagnasco, Bishop of Genoa and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference denounced far-right lawmaker Mario Borghezio for making anti-Islam statements in a church that planned to hold interfaith prayers in Genoa. Borghezio went to the church accompanied by dozens of others waiving the Northern League’s flag, and stated that he would continue to fight
Arab states attending the European Union Arab League meeting in Malta lobbied the Dutch government against a controversial anti-Islam film soon to be released in the Netherlands. The foreign ministers of Syria, Egypt, and Morocco spoke against the film. Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders is behind the short 15-minute film, which according to speculation,