17 February 2013 In Melilla resides a total of 31,276 Spanish Muslims, making it 6% of all those living in Spain, according to “Demographic Study of the Muslim population ‘for the year 2012, published by the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE), the Andalusian Observatory and assembled through data obtained from the different…
16 April 2012 According to the Observatorio Andalusí ‘s Annual Report for 2011published by the Union of Islamic Communities, in Spain live around 16,452 Muslims in Extremadura. It highlights the following: There are 17 Islamic identities with 16 mosques in the region of Extremadura. Muslims living in Extremadura: 16,452 divided between foreign and Spanish (nationalized)…
Levante-EMV – 31/03/2012 On Friday sermon at the Islamic Cultural Center of Valencia, the Toulouse killings in France were condemned and it was highlighted that this violent behavior had nothing to do with Islam. Just four days later, the Muslim communities of Valencia were painfully surprised by the arrest of the Al Qaeda Librarian, a…
The Islamic association “Junta Islamica”, created in 1989 and primarily composed of Spanish converts, has publicly condemned the references some terrorist groups have made about the re-conquest of the old Al-Andalus territory. Mansur Escuero, Junta Islamica’s president, says such declarations damage the image of European Muslims. He added that Spanish Muslims are full European citizens…
Spanish Muslims have launched an independent, self-regulatory body to train imams in the southern European country, IslamOnline.net reports. The Islamic Union of Imams and Preachers in Spain will be entrusted with training imams and preachers across the country. Chairman Sheikh Alaa Said explains that “the growing Muslim community in Spain required the launch of an…
