In Spain, “The radical ideas are being transmitted in the virtual world.”
Riay Tatary, president of the Union of Islamic Communities (UCIDE) of Spain defended yesterday that Islam “is peace and therefore can not be used as a synonym for violence or terrorism.” He also...
View ArticleDutch Islam critic Wilders: “If we don’t act it will also happen here.”...
[This is a full translation of the interview with Islam critic and political leader of the Dutch Freedom Party that appeared in the Dutch news paper Het Parool on 9 January 2015. For the Dutch version...
View ArticleDutch extreme right group organizes anti-Islam demonstration
Pro Patria, a Dutch extreme right group, announced to yet again take to the streets to demonstrate for the freedom of speech and against fundamentalistic Muslims. The organization will hold a “March...
View ArticleOP-ED: Freedom of the press and global jihad (J. Cesari)
Since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo on 7 January, the saying (wrongly attributed to Voltaire), “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” has become a motto...
View ArticleDutch Vice Prime Minister Lodewijk Ascher: Muslims belong in the Netherlands
The Dutch Vice Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher has recently defended Muslims in the Netherlands on the party congress of his Labour Party (Partij van de arbeid). In the same meeting he lashed out...
View ArticleHalf of Muslims sees no place for democracy in Islam
Wednesday February 25th there was a public hearing on radicalization and jihadism in the Dutch parliament. There, Paul Scheffer, specialized in integration issues, stated that according to a big...
View ArticleLinda Sarsour: Why this has been the worst year for American Muslims since 9/11
The number of hate crimes against members of the Muslim, Arab and South Asian communities has dramatically increased. There is a growing disconnect between freedom of speech and the freedom to practice...
View ArticleAl-Azhar condemns anti-Islam cartoons on Dutch television
Al-Azhar, one of the most prominent sunni Islamic institutes of higher learning, has condemned a broadcast on Dutch television that showed cartoons about the Islamic prophet Muhammed. According to the...
View ArticleThe Islam debate: The dual consciousness of Muslims
Muslims today can no longer think, or ultimately exist, outside the widespread lore about Islam, which links them to discussions about terror, violence and the separation of religion and society. They...
View ArticleMore American than apple pie, Muslims have been migrating to the US for...
Muslims have been coming to the US for centuries, but you wouldn’t know it by the intense debates that continue to surround the movement of Muslims across international borders. Republican presidential...
View ArticleLawsuit claims Muslims including a 4-year-old are unfairly on terrorist watch...
A lawsuit filed last week claims that thousands of Muslim Americans, among them a 4-year old, have been unfairly put on a federal watch list designed to screen potential terrorists. The class-action...
View ArticleIslam does have a problem with homosexuality. But so do western conservatives
Omar Mateen – who shot dead 50 people in an Orlando gay club – was both an Islamist terrorist and a violent homophobe. These things are not mutually exclusive. They are concomitant. Mateen attacked the...
View ArticleTurkish Community Associations join German pride festivals
Signalling solidarity and allying against discrimination Turkish community associations have joined gay pride marches in Stuttgart and Hamburg, in a bid to broach questions surrounding sexuality and to...
View ArticleMacron and Le Pen debate burkini
The burkini controversy that began in summer 2016 reappeared in the televised presidential debate. As the candidates were discussing laïcité (secularism), Marine Le Pen attacked Macron, saying:...
View ArticleGerman Turks split on referendum, Erdoğan’s critique of Europe
In Turkey, voting for the country’s crucial constitutional referendum will take place on April 16, 2017. President Erdoğan is hoping for a resounding Evet (Yes) vote in order to transform Turkey into a...
View ArticleLiberation of journalist signals cautious détente in German-Turkish relations
After one year and two days in Turkish prison – mostly spent in solitary confinement – journalist Deniz Yücel was set free by the Turkish authorities on February 16, 2018. The case of Yücel, a German...
View ArticleRacism and far-right bias: Germany’s intelligence and policing institutions...
Mesut Özil’s resignation from the Germany national football team after a racist witch-hunt that had blamed him and his Turkish heritage for Germany’s poor showing at the world cup in Russia energised...
View ArticleThe August Attack on Salman Rushdie: Muslim Leaders revisit their positions...
75-year-old “The Satanic Verses” author Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday 12th August at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York where he was to speak about the importance of...
View ArticleFrench Preacher Expulsion: What it means for Religious Freedom
On Tuesday 30th August, The Council of State (France’s highest administrative court) has agreed to the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen to Morocco. Citing the ruling by the Council, Gérald Darmanin...
View ArticleNo working definition of Islamophobia for the UK Government: Implications and...
Tuesday 1st November was the beginning of the tenth Islamophobia awareness month, a campaign founded in 2012 by MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) and partner organisations which aims to...
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