April 18, 2014 Muslim leaders opened France’s largest Islamic conference on Friday, April 18, amid a recent controversy surrounding the recent social debates in France regarding legalization of gay marriage and discussions on gender equality education in schools. “From the point of view of the religious consciousness, marriage for all is something that is…
Tariq Ramadan is an Islamic scholar who teaches at Oxford University and a former member of a working group on extremism set up by Tony Blair. Time magazine once described him as the “leading thinker” among Europe’s second and third-generation Muslim immigrants. Yet two French ministers have suddenly announced that they will not attend a…
* POPE BENEDICT XVI: SUMMING UP *CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS * Tuesday, 5 March 2013* It can only be hoped that the next pope will be better fitted to grasp the great issues of the day. Pope Benedict will not have left his mark on history quite as decisively as his predecessor, John Paul…
*Tuesday, 12 February 2013 * I am not a Christian, and have frequently taken issue with Pope Benedict XVI’s theological positions and historical interpretations, both in form and in content. We met on two occasions: the first, while he was still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the second, in Rome, when he was Pope, as a participant…
17 January 2013 The announcement of the participation of Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan in a conference on ‘Islam and the media’ in Roubaix, Nord Pas-de- Calais, has according to a report in France 3 Nord Pas-de-Calais caused deep local controversy. Segments of the local community have criticized both, the organization Association Rencontre et Dialogue…
