The more immigrants feel respected, the less they are vulnerable to radicalization“, says Marieke van Egmond, who is a psychologists and co-author of a joint investigation led by the Jacobs University of Bremen and the University of Maryland. The Professors Klaus Boehnke and Michele Gelfand interviewed 464 Muslims between 2013 and 2014. 204 Muslims were…
More than 400 hate crimes were recorded against France’s Muslim community in 2015, three times as many as the 133 reported the year before. The figures come from Dilcra, a government body tasked with monitoring racism in France. “This is a dramatic and very worrying development, which can mainly be explained by the surge in…
Sitting in Syria, and speaking via the internet, “Abu Dujana” told me: “I’m not a big fan of the suicide attack or exploding oneself.” But after giving it careful consideration, the British Muslim convert said he was prepared to be martyred, to kill himself for his cause. He is perhaps in his mid-20s, has been…
Two pigs’ heads were dumped outside a Muslim school in Blackburn in the same week as a similar vulgar act was committed near some graffiti in West London. More and more, Islamophobes seem to believe that this malicious act is the best way to anger Muslims and show them that they are not welcome. But…
In the night of Dec. 15th , a mosque affiliated to the Turkish Islamic Union and Institute for Religion (DITIB) has been attacked by arsonists in the German city of Stuttgart. With regards to the increase of recent arson attacks against mosques in Germany, the DITIB community raised its concerns and condemned the hostile actions…
