Category: Islam and The West
French Ministers refuse to share Platform with Muslim Scholar
Paris:Tariq Ramadan is a scholar who teaches at Oxford University and a former member of a working group on extremism set up by Tony Blair. Time ma [...]
Burqa Ban Motion Rejected
Catalonia: (Spain): The Supreme Court has rejected the motion presented by the city of Lleida to ban the burqa in public buildings. The council del [...]
CAIR Welcomes AP Stylebook Revision of ‘Islamist’
Washington D.C: The nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization (CAIR) said the decision by The Associated Press (AP) to revise it [...]
French Court rejects Dismissal of Muslim Nurse
Paris: The controversy surrounding the Muslim headscarf, or hijab, has been rekindled in France after the French Court of Cassation annulled the 200 [...]
Investigation Finds Women at Risk in Sharia Courts
London: A Crown Prosecution Service investigation of a number of Sharia courts operating in mosques across the UK found that these courts may be riski [...]
Muslim Broadcaster gets License
Amsterdam: A new Muslim broadcaster in the Netherlands has been granted the provision of radio and TV programmes. The Commissariat for the Media has g [...]
Belgian Muslim Organisation Denounces Recruitments for Syria War
Belgium: A Muslim organisation has condemned the instrumentalisation of Islam to recruit voluntary fighters from Belgium for the civil-war in Syria. [...]
Muslim Council Opposes Govt’s Proposed History Curriculum
London: The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), one of United Kingdom's leading Muslim organisations has warned that plans to revise the school history [...]
British Government promotes London as Islamic Finance Hub
London: The British government launched a campaign to promote London as a centre for Islamic finance, seeking to counter growing competition in that [...]
Mapping Muslims Report Released
New York: American Muslim civil liberties groups released a new report last fortnight, "Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Musli [...]