New Group to support Muslim LBGT people in Italy: a meeting with Moi

August 29, 2013   Muslim and gay? Impossible! Transsexual and Muslim? Inconceivable! These assertions gave life to Moi (Homosexual Muslims in Italy). We talk to Pier Cesare Notaro, the project coordinator.   Beyond prejudice, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Muslims are a reality and too often reduced to keeping silent. They, like all human…

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Interview with Prof. Karakaşoglu about teachers with headscarf

July 31   Yasemin Karakaşoglu is a Professor for Educational Sciences at the University of Bremen. In an interview with the the Migration Journal Migazin,  Karakaşoglu speaks about the challenges consequences of the headscarf ban in public schools for students, who wear headscarves and are aiming for teaching degree. According to her personal experiences, some…

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A Mosques in Salerno: “No” from Cirielli, Celano, Peduto

Discussed was the idea of ​​creating a mosque in Salerno, which was started days ago by the mayor Vincenzo De Luca. Not in accordance, to start with, is the deputy of Fratelli d’Italia, Edmund Cirielli: “The idea of ​​building a mosque in Salerno as a center of Islamic culture is not justifiable. I do not…

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20 years after the assault of Solingen

May 29   Muslims representatives such as the central council of Muslims remembered the deadly assault of May 29th 1993 in the German city of Solingen. Twenty years ago, the German government restricted the asylum law, as a consequence of increasing numbers of asylum seekers. The restriction was part of a preventive policy in the…

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The Religious Affiliation of U.S. Immigrants: Majority Christian, Rising Share of Other Faiths

Overview Over the past 20 years, the United States has granted permanent residency status to an average of about 1 million immigrants each year. These new “green card” recipients qualify for residency in a wide variety of ways – as family members of current U.S. residents, recipients of employment visas, refugees and asylum seekers, or…

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