24.05.2011 On Monday, representatives of the Orthodox Rabbi-Conference Germany (ORD) and the Central Council of Muslims in Germany came together in a first meeting of what is meant to be a future dialogue between the two groups. This exchange between Muslims and Jews is meant to enhance the relations between the two. In the meeting,…
February 2 2011 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has refused to comment on remarks by anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders calling Turkey a totalitarian state and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a ‘freak’. During a press conference in Ankara, the Minister refused to give the remarks the credit of a reaction, instead emphasizing the good relations…
Policy makers in the Netherlands concerned with the effect of the country’s anti-Islam mood on relations with the Muslim world have organized a series of PR trips to the Netherlands for journalists from Muslim countries. In early December a group of Turkish journalists was brought to the Netherlands, whose reports are now appearing. A journalist…
December 9th, 2010 Representatives of the Islamic communities of Álava, Vizcaya y Guipúzcoa – mostly Moroccans and Algerians, but also of Senegalese origin – gathered in Vitoria, summoned by Spanish converts to Islam, to establish The Basque Muslim Council, and advisory organization created with the aim of becoming the main interlocutor for the Muslim population…
26 October 2010 In recent years, few subjects have had more column inches, multimedia pieces and funding streams devoted to them than the integration of Muslims into British society. Whole essays have been devoted to the notion that donning the niqab (face veil) impedes the exchange of pleasantries in the street; research has been done…
