A range of Lego-style fighting figurines – including an Islamic terrorist militant – has sparked outrage among Muslims. The toy mini-figures, made by American Will Chapman, includes a masked terrorist bandit with an assault rifle, grenade launcher and belt of explosives. Shocked by the playthings, British Muslim organisation the Ramadhan Foundation has branded the figurines…
Muslim intellectuals have rejected a government plan to halt the construction of new mosques in Italy, arguing that it is a shortage of mosques – not the fact that there are too many – that has made it more difficult to monitor radical Islam. The anti-immigrant Northern League has renewed its calls to stop the…
Canadian Mounties and young Torontonian Muslims played a soccer match in the BMO Field, home of Toronto’s FC soccer club. The score: a 4-4 tie. Following the match, the soccer adversaries sat down for a question-and-answer session. Full-text article continues here. (Some news sites may require registration)
A Lebanese student accused of planting a bomb on a German train pleaded his innocence before a German court Tuesday, saying that the gas-filled device in his possession was only meant to scare. “I swear by God almighty that I had no intention of killing anybody,” said Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24. “I knew when I…
The Islamic Cultural Center in Rome, also called the Rome Grand Mosque, faces desertion and abandonment although it is the biggest mosque in Italy. Despite the fact that the mosque’s large prayer hall can accommodate some 5,000 people, it remains empty except for Friday prayers and Eid celebrations. The keeper of the mosque, Ya ‘quob…
