Immigrants living in Spain sent a record EUR 8.135 billion to their home countries in 2007 – an increase of 19.5 percent from 2006. Spain’s 4.5 million immigrants, roughly 20 percent of the total population, are now the leading senders in Europe of financial remittances to their home and developing countries, and the third largest…
The teaching of Islam is to be added to Germany’s school curricula, but Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble admits the country’s 16 states as well as the Muslim community have yet to agree on the plan’s finer points. It’s hard to imagine Saudi Arabia’s interior minister inviting representatives from the country’s immigrant Christian community to a…
A campaign to boycott Danish products is taking hold in Saudi Arabia, after the re-publishing of 12 controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. We will carry out a new boycott said Mohammed Abidat, the president of Arab entrepreneurs. He added that it is imperative that Muslim and Arab trades-people and shopkeepers boycott all Danish products….
With Birmingham set to become the UK’s first ethnic majority city in just two years, a debate will take place on how businesses are adapting to the rise of a new multi-faith workforce. On January 31, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry will debate the issue along with a number of panellists. The event, chaired…
Despite warming, several thousand Muslims wishing to have gone to Mecca from France to perform the holy Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj, have been misled by travel agencies and deceiving intermediaries. Nana Zakaria, founder of SOS-Pilgrims, an association that tried to alert travelers about scams related to Hajj, cites approximately 3500 people who have been unable…
