Socialist Party mayor of Strasbourg Roland Ries’ private home was vandalized with Islamophobic and “anti-minaret” slogans. In November in the midst of the Swiss minaret banning referendum and controversy, Ries told reporters that there would be “no reason” to impose a similar minaret ban in Strasbourg, particularly for one currently under construction. The vandalism is…
After twenty years of controversy and difficulties, the grand mosque of Strasbourg officially opened to a crowd of 2,000 to coincide with Eid El-Kebir festivities. It is estimated to have cost 8.7 million euros.
The international conference is jointly organized by The EURISLAM Network, based at the University of Strasbourg (http://www.eurislam.info/index_EN.html) and The Centre for European Islamic Thought (CEIT), based at the University of Copenhagen (http://www.teol.ku.dk/english/dept/ceit_eng/). The conference will take place Wednesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 22, 2010 in Copenhagen and will focus on the following overlapping and…
The School of Management in Strasbourg will, for the first time in France, offer a university diploma in “Islamic Finance (a “bac +5”). The United Kingdom is the only other country to hold a similar program in Europe. Michel Kalika, the school’s director, explains that the diploma is “the reasonable result of a market analysis…
The EU parliament prevented the showing on Wednesday of an anti-Islamic film made by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders, bringing cries of censorship from the British eurodeputy who organised the screening. “The banning of this film is a direct attack on free speech,” said British MEP Gerard Batten, who had organised the event, though officials…
