19 September 2013 Spanish security services on Monday (September 16th) arrested a Moroccan expatriate for allegedly recruiting jihadists to fight in Syria. Just a few days after the arrest of Mohamed El Bali, a Moroccan expatriate accused of co-ordinating the “Muwahideen” and “Attawhid” cells, another Moroccan terror suspect was arrested in Ceuta. Yassin Ahmed…
21 August 2013 In partnership with the British Museum in London, Leiden’s National Museum of Ethnology is displaying an exhibition dedicated to the Hajj. More than 250 objects from Indonesia and Morocco have been collected for the show, including 80 works from the Nasser D. Khalilii Collection of Islamic Art. The exhibition is to…
22 August 2013 An Amsterdam court has decided that widows abroad, who hold a Dutch surviving relative pension, may not have their benefits removed. The decision concluded a case brought to court by eleven Moroccan and Turkish widows whose benefits as surviving widows were curtailed considerably because they moved abroad. On 1 January…
09 July 2013 A number of imams coming from Morocco landed at El Prat airport on Monday night to lead the prayers of the Catalan Islamic community during Ramadan. They were presented at the Grand Mosque in Terrassa, the largest in the country. The presence of foreign Imams is normal for this time of…
Even Turin has a Mosque: it was inagurated in the neighborhood of Lingotto, those present included representatives of the city of Turin, Nichelino and Moncalieri, the ambassador of Morocco, Abdel Aziz Ashak, and others active in Islamic associations across the Piedmont. Lega Nord sympathizers protested outside of the opening festivities.
