French people are the most likely to hold misconceptions about the current and predicted Muslim population in their country, according to a study by Ipsos Mori published on Wednesday. French people believed that 31 percent of the population was Muslim, when the real figure according to Pew research in 2010 was 7.5 percent. Among the 40…
The quotations below have been collected by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy. “President Obama’s Cairo speech was unprecedented in a number of ways. Firstly, it sought to establish common ground with Muslims by stressing that human rights and democracy, for example, are shared universal concerns and that there are strong historical…
MUSLIM leaders urged restraint as hundreds of angry Muslims burned a mock Danish flag outside a mosque in Quiapo yesterday to denounce controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad first published in a Danish newspaper. The protesters, chanting Allah Akbar! (God is great!), demanded an apology from the prime minister of Denmark, where the caricature of…
