In the early 1970s, singers such as the late Larry Norman transformed Christian music from hymns to rock ‘n’ roll by asking one simple question: Why should the devil have all the good music? Now a group of young Muslim musicians is doing the same for Islamic songs known as “nasheeds,” by combining hip-hop, country…
12 April 2013 The National Court judge Santiago Pedraz has released with charges the Moroccan citizen living in Ulldecona (Tarragona) who used his social network page on Facebook to spread links of videos that encouraged jihad and terrorist attacks. As reported by legal sources, Ridouan Ben Omar, 23, will deliver the passport, will be…
Feb 1 So far, the activities of the „Identity Movement of Germany“ have been limited to the Internet, propagating anti-Islam videos and articles against Muslim immigrants. The right-wing movement calls the German youth to mobilize a revolution against the Islamization of Germany. Last week, the movement organized a street “flash-mob” in the historical center…
The UCIDE (Union of Islamic Communities of Spain) has a new website covering news, articles, researches, activities in both Spanish and Arabic language. Videos, such of the last Islamic Congress of Catalonia are available on the site. The communities included in the Union are: Castilla La mancha Catalonia Ceuta Extremadura Murcia Pais Vasco Rioja…
Since Op-Docs, our forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with creative latitude across many subjects, started in November 2011, 46 short films and videos have been published on nytimes.com. Today we begin a new Op-Docs feature: Scenes. It will be a platform for very short work — snippets of street life, brief observations and interviews, clips…
