The municipality of Amsterdam announced that the local honor murder hotline received 84 calls this year, to date. The hotline, which has been in existence since the beginning of 2008, received calls from victims and social workers. Of the 84 calls received, 45% involved issues of physical violence, and 85% of the victims were women….
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation impeded a training meeting that was to take place in Grenoble to explain the proper ritual sacrifice of lamb for Eid al-Adha. According to the foundation, such meeting encouraged “secretive slaughters,” and the Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie intervened so that the municipality would not allow the group to meet…
The Muslim community in Slovenia is hoping to raise enough money to establish a long-awaited mosque – which would be the first ever built in the country. The city municipality has granted Ljubljana permission for the building and allocated land for the prospective mosque. However, money is needed to secure the building and construction, with…
Muslims in the city of Sassuolo in northern Italy protested against what they claim is the town council’s refusal to allow the local Muslim community to build a mosque. “Tomorrow we will perform Friday prayers in the street, to protest against the municipality for not allowing us to have a mosque,” said spokesperson Hisham Abu…
Artwork by artist Ellen Vroegh have been removed from the municipality building where they had been displayed, after several Muslim men complained about the abstract paintings of half-naked women in the paintings. Vroegh commented that she was showed, and completely puzzled that the municipality removed her artwork because a few people had objections to them….
