UK Prime Minister David Cameron has warned against Islamic extremism and praised Indonesia as living proof that Islam is compatible with democracy. Speaking to students in Jakarta on the latest stop of his trade mission to South East Asia, he said extremists only wanted to impose a particular and radical version of Islam on society.
International Conference 27-28 January 2011 Facoltà di Scienze Politiche Sala Poeti, Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interactions in the Mediterranean and South East Europe (European Commission FP7 project) Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia Swedish Research Council Stefano Allievi, Schirin Amir-Moazami, Raffaella Baritono, Gaia Giuliani, Nilüfer Göle, Jeanette Jouili, Helen Kambouri, Pia Karlsson…
Call for Papers for the International Conference The administration of Islamic affairs and representation of Muslims in secular states have become hot issues in Western European debates on the social integration of Muslim citizens. South East Europe has over a century of experience in this area. Muslim communities in the region have developed well-established autochthonous…
Terror suspects held at one of Britain’s most secure jails are secretly accessing the internet to contact their supporters. The discovery raises fears that some of the UK’s most dangerous terrorists could be plotting new attacks from inside prison. The serious security breach was revealed last week after The Mail on Sunday was alerted to…
By ANDREW WOODCOCK BRITAIN’S ethnic minority communities might be given new names in an effort to strengthen their ties to this country. Home Office minister Hazel Blears is to ask representatives of Muslim and other minorities whether they would prefer to be known by US-style hyphenated terms such as Asian-British, Pakistani-British or Indian-British, rather than…
