Tag: traditionalism
Free choice and its discontents: Germany debates Muslim women’s attire
What is the meaning of the religious attire worn by some Muslim women? Are hijab and niqab hallmarks of the retrograde nature of Islam?...
Liberal Muslims support Danish cartoonist
The Liberal Muslim network LIM (Equality, Integration, Diversity) supports the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and challenges the Norwegian Islamic Council (Islamisk Råd) and the...
UK judge convicts Kurd of “honour killing” daughter
A Kurdish father was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murdering his 15-year-old daughter because she fell in love with a follower...
Britain’s Muslims divided, government unsure how to act
The Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank founded by former Islamists, published a report about teachings in British mosques. The study entitled ‘Mosques Made...
