French Council of the Muslim Faith creates ‘theological council’ to counter radical discourse

May 8, 2016 The CFCM, the organization that governs the 2,500 mosques in France but is often criticized by French Muslims for its lack of concrete action, has taken steps to increase its religious presence. The 2015 attacks and the success of Daesh in recruiting hundreds of youths shed light on the need for a…

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If you see nothing suspicious at a mosque, maybe that’s normal

On my way to Masjid Muhammad DC, which calls itself the “nation’s mosque,” a slogan coined by the Department of Homeland Security came to mind: “If you see something, say something.” And in the blink of an eye, I was on the lookout for odd and out-of-the-ordinary goings-on. I had driven past the mosque many…

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The incredibly gracious way Muslims welcomed a man who had drunkenly shot their mosque

Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. It was only several months earlier, on the night of the terror attacks in Paris, when Hakey, 48, went to a local…

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Dutch minister declines extra security after attacks on mosques

1 March 2016 Ard van der Steur, the Dutch Minister of Security and Justice, is not planning to take extra security measures after a sequence of severe threats and attacks on mosques. “If measures should be taken this is the responsibility of municipalities”, he said during a debate in the Dutch parliament on the matter….

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