Toronto imam charged with assault traveled under aliases

News Agencies – August 24, 2011 A Toronto imam charged with sexual assault travelled under three aliases, the Toronto Police Service has announced. Police allege that Mohammad Masroor, 48, used the name Junaid Salman in Hungary, Austria, Italy and elsewhere in Europe in the early 1990s, may have travelled under the name Abdur Rahim in…

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New study: Swedish Muslim Congregation

Islam is the fastest growing religion in Western Europe today. As a consequence, the emergence and growth of Muslim religious congregations is one of the most important changes that have taken place within the European third (or voluntary) sector in the last 20 years. However, more often than not, these congregations are described as “enclaves”…

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Islamophobia behind Norway Massacre

24 July, 2011 Anders Behring Breivik (32) – who has confessed to have planned and executed the bombing and massacre killing almost 100 persons in Oslo and nearby Utøya – published a 1500-page manuscript on Internet one hour before the detonation demolishing great parts of central Oslo, and central Government buildings. In the manuscript he…

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Call for proposals for papers and discussants: Making European Muslims (Oct. 28 to 29, 2011)

*Call for proposals for papers and discussants* *Making European Muslims:* *Islam and the Struggle over Beliefs, Perceptions and Identities among Children and Young People in Western Europe* * * *Two-day conference in Copenhagen, Denmark* *Friday 28 to Saturday 29 October, 2011* * * *Organized by the Arab and Islamic Studies Unit and the Child and…

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Assailants topple 30 tombstones, scrawl swastikas at Muslim cemetery in northeast France

News Agencies – September 24, 2010 Unidentified assailants have toppled about 30 tombstones and scrawled swastikas into the ground at a Muslim cemetery plot in Strasbourg, in northeastern France. Mayor Roland Ries has denounced the desecration of the Muslim section of a cemetery in the city of Strasbourg as “an unbearable racist act.” An umbrella…

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