News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
3/6/2013 The Islamic community of Varese [a community in Northern Italy] has outgrown it’s meeting space in downtown Verese. New plans include possible spaces in other districts with parking lots. The then Mayor in the early 90s would not allow the center to be called a mosque but rather a community center. The space has
A plethora of Mafia organizations are well rooted in the North of Italy, where they aim not only at laundering but also at controlling the territory, local institutions and tenders. When questioned about this Mafia “emergency,” all Northern League politician’s continuously circumvent the issue at hand and continue to focus on security ordinances against sellers
Authorities arrested a Tunisian citizen in the town of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy, who is alleged to have ties with a terrorist cell in charge of sending suicide bombers to Afghanistan and Iraq. Nasr Mourad, a Tunisian citizen living in the city of Novellara, was arrested on account of having links to a terror
Italy’s former deputy education minister, Mariella Mazzetto, has sparked protests after parading a pig on the site of a planned mosque in the northern Italian city of Padua. Mazzetto, a member of the populist, anti-immigrant, right-wing party, said the act was in defense of maintaining Italian identity. Pigs are considered an unclean animal in Islam,
Hostility toward immigrants is largely directed at Muslims, making up the largest group of immigrants after Latin Americans, the article states. Described as cancers, fanatics, drug addicts and cheats, fears are amounting especially in Northern Italy, where many factories and farms employ immigrants seeking work.