News Agencies – August 1, 2012 A French mayor has revoked the suspension of four Muslim camp counselors following an uproar after he said they could not work properly because they might be weakened by their all-day fasting for Ramadan. Muslim groups threatened to sue the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers for discrimination for recalling…
News Agencies – August 30, 2011 In waiting for the construction of the Institut des cultures d’islam (ICI or Institute of Islamic Cultures) that should be partially complete by January 2013, practicing Muslims in Paris’ 18th district continue to pray in the streets. This practice has engendered great debate. National Front leader Marine Le…
News Agencies – August 24, 2011 A Toronto imam charged with sexual assault travelled under three aliases, the Toronto Police Service has announced. Police allege that Mohammad Masroor, 48, used the name Junaid Salman in Hungary, Austria, Italy and elsewhere in Europe in the early 1990s, may have travelled under the name Abdur Rahim in…
News Agencies – August 24, 2011 The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, will host a Ramadan-inspired musical event which has created controversy among secular and far-right critics. The mayor has responded that the city has organized this event every year since 2001 and that there will be no prayers or religious tones to the…
News Agencies – August 17, 2011 Members of a Scarborough, Ontario mosque have expressed shock and disbelief that their “nice” and “humble” religious leader has been charged with a string of sexual assaults. Mohammad Masroor, the imam at the Baitul Mukarram Islamic Society on Danforth Ave., faces 13 charges involving sexual offences and death…
