Evidence of early Muslim burials unearthed in Nimes

February 28, 2016 Three sets of medieval-era remains found France may turn out to be some of the earliest evidence of Muslim presence outside of the Iberian Peninsula, scientists say. The Early Middle Ages was a period of expansion and conquest for the Arab-Islamic world, culminating in the expansion of Islamic caliphates into what was

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Occupation of mosque shocks Dutch Muslim community

The Council of Moroccan Mosques of the Netherlands (RMMN) has responded with shock to the occupation of a mosque in construction in the Dutch city of Leiden. Five members of the Dutch extreme right group “Identitair Verzet” (English: Identitary Resistance, named after the French group “Géneration Identitaire”) occupied the mosque in the morning of 7

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An Interfaith Trojan Horse: Faithwashing Apartheid and Occupation

By Sana Saeed July 1, 2014   Interfaith work has the potential to create and sustain profound relationships across religions.  But what happens when interfaith work becomes a trojan horse? In this piece I explore the Muslim Leadership Initiative, a program which sends American Muslims leaders to Israel to study Judaism and Zionism and is funded

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