News Agencies – September 24, 2010 Unidentified assailants have toppled about 30 tombstones and scrawled swastikas into the ground at a Muslim cemetery plot in Strasbourg, in northeastern France. Mayor Roland Ries has denounced the desecration of the Muslim section of a cemetery in the city of Strasbourg as “an unbearable racist act.” An umbrella…
The municipal council of Strasboug recently adopted the notion of a public cemetery for local Muslims. It will be open in 2011 in the Meinau neighborhood.
Papers are invited for an international conference to be jointly organized by: – the EurIslam network, based at the University of Strasbourg – http://www.eurislam.info/index_EN.html – Centre for European Islamic Thought (CEIT), at the University of Copenhagen – http://www.teol.ku.dk/english/dept/ceit_eng/ The conference will take place Wednesday to Friday 6-8 October 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference was originally…
A man suspected of playing a major role in the attack of an elderly Jewish man in southern France is being held for questioning by police. The “No. 1 suspect” in a May 2 attack in the town of Nimes on a 78-year-old Jewish man was arrested and is being questioned, a Nimes police commissioner,…
A photography competition has begun in Strasbourg to celebrate the most beautiful minarets in Europe’s landscape. The competition results will be announced in Strasbourg on April 19th.
