The nearly 24 mosques that currently exist in the Basque country are insufficient to meet the needs of a growing Muslim population. Adding to the well-known difficulty in getting the necessary permits to open new places of worship, the Muslim communities are now faced with being a peon at the onset of municipal election campaigns….
5 December 2010 In this op-ed, Robert Lambert calls on the long-overdue proper debate on anti-Muslim violence and intimidation: “The new all-party parliamentary group investigating Islamophobia will need to encourage the coalition government to tackle anti-Muslim violence and intimidation as a matter of urgency. Too many victims have suffered in silence and without remedy since…
Le Figaro – November 8, 2010 French Jewish and Muslim communities recently met over couscous in Ris-Orangis (in Essonne) as part of a weekend of gatherings related to Judeo-Islamic friendship (the AJMF or l’amitié judéo-musulmane de France). The principle behind the gatherings is to meet within each other’s places of worship to share, exchange ideas…
News Agencies – October 7, 2010 France’s constitutional watchdog has endorsed a divisive law forbidding face-covering Islamic veils anywhere in public, but expressed concern about applying it in places of worship such as a mosque. The decision of the Constitutional Council removes a key hurdle for the law, overwhelmingly approved in both houses of parliament…
(Immigration and Integration, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations) 22 August 2010 The outgoing president of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGiÖ), Anas Schakfeh, has stated in a recent interview with the radio program Ö1 that he hopes that every Austrian provincial capital will eventually have a mosque, with a minaret. Considering the number of Muslims…
