There are plans to build several hundred new and often magnificent mosques throughout Europe — particularly in Germany. Architecture has become the field of a fierce ideological battle about the visibility of Europe’s 16 million Muslims. Just a few minutes ago, Mubashra Ilyas was still standing on her dusty construction site. Now the 30-year-old architect…
Dewsbury Labour MP Shahid Malik has told the High Court that he had spoken out against Islamic extremism more than anyone else in the country. The international development minister is suing for libel damages over a “bullying” press campaign which he says branded him a racist whose divisive style was to blame for the rise…
Britain’s first magazine aimed at Muslim women, {Sisters}, is to be launched as a printed publication next Saturday. The magazine will be launched in-style by editor Na’ima B. Robert and her team at the Global Peace and Unity event, sponsored by Islam Channel, at Excel in London.http://themuslimweekly.com/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=C68DD41192022142C2B330CE&MENUID=HOMENEWS&DESCRIPTION=UK%20News
Europe should strengthen the fight against terrorism by cracking down on militant Web sites and compiling U.S.-style profiles of air passengers, the European Union executive said on Tuesday. The proposals coincided with 17 arrests across Europe in an operation led by Italy against suspected “Salafist jihadi” cells, the latest in a series of major European…
The EU’s top justice official is planning on unveiling a new proposal concerning the collection of airline passenger data. Plans for the data collection include the storage of e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, payment details, and 16 other pieces of personal information to be stored for 13 years, as a part of the new EU-wide anti-terror…
