Alleged member of AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb area) expelled from Spain

March 18, 2014   Nouh Mediouni, a young North African, 23 years old, has been expelled from Spain on Tuesday after being arrested on the 23 April 2013 in Zaragoza as alleged member of Al Qaeda. He is accused of being a member of AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb area) and was recruited…

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A book review of The French Intifada: The Long War between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey

February 28, 2014   A book review of The French Intifada: The Long War between France and its Arabs by Andrew Hussey (publication date March 6, 2014)   ‘’ Going well beyond news reports, the book shows just how hot and fierce a vein of hatred for France runs through the Muslim populations that have experienced…

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The Muslim vote

February 26, 2014   The polling firm OpinionWay conducted a poll for the French newspaper Le Figaro and surveyed 10,000 French voters. According to its findings 93% of French Muslims voted for François Hollande while only 7% voted for the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy. An estimated 2 million Muslims participated in the 2012 election and approximately…

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Islam, a Florentine woman forced to use the veil and beaten by her husband

In 2010, after having embraced the Islamic faith, she flew to Egypt where she married a man she met only a few months earlier. A husband, 33 year-old Egyptian man, who turned out to have an abusive side, this side which slowly became a river of aggression. Until last Sunday, August 25 when the woman,…

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Mosque emerges from Palermo home improvement: ‘We won’t serve alcohol here, out of respect’ say owners

August 28, 2013 By Gaetana D’Amico and Christopher Livesay Palermo, August 28 – Owners of a Palermo apartment were shocked to discover during recent renovations that part of their home was once an ornate 18th-century mosque. The flat in Via Porta di Castro is in an area of buildings over what used to be the…

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