Spain has released a guide on the Muslim community in the country. The guide includes such data such as demographic information and information about mosques and/or places of worship. According to the guide, there are approximately 1.3 Muslims in Spain, with Moroccans, Algerians, Pakistanis, and Senegalese making up the majority. Previous estimates put the number…
Islam has become the second-largest religion in Germany with an estimated 3.5 million Muslims out of a population of 82 million, most of them of Turkish descent, a visiting expert said in Jakarta on Wednesday. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr, the head of Islamic research at the University of Leipzig, said Islam had become a permanent phenomenon in…
Muslim leaders have offered to help guard a Scottish synagogue after it was vandalized in an alleged anti-Semitic attack. The Scottish Islamic Foundation chairperson Ken Imrie wrote a letter to the Rabi of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation, to voice the group’s revulsion and horror of the attack. “We trust you have adequate security arrangements in…
According to three senior Vatican clerics, Muslims should be allowed to build new mosques in Europe so long as they respect local communities and respect the way of life of the host countries. The construction of more “official” mosques would also boost security, said the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Archbishop of Budapest, and Archbishop of Zagreb….
Sofia councilors from an ultra-nationalist party are demanding a referendum concerning the planned construction of a second mosque in the Bulgarian capital. The Ataka party argues that Muslims in Sofia already have one mosque and that this is sufficient. Ataka are opposed to any form of promotion of the Islamic faith or construction of mosques…
