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• Sweden: First request for muezzin

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Sweden: First request for muezzin Following similar requests in Germany and Belgium , a Swedish mosque is now talking about broadcasting a call to prayer. There are already mosques in Europe with a muezzin call: most only for Friday afternoon prayers, though some do have a muezzin call five times a day. Though ...
  20 hours ago

• Switzerland: Muslim leader wants national umbrella group

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Switzerland: Muslim leader wants national umbrella group The president of a Swiss Islamic organisation has called for a single umbrella organisation to represent the country’s various Muslim groups. Hisam Maizar, president of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Switzerland, told the Sunday newspaper Le ...
  2 days ago

• France: Mosque desecrated with graffiti, pig parts

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  France: Mosque desecrated with graffiti, pig parts The Mosque of Castres (southern France) has been desecrated in the night from Saturday to Sunday by unknown persons who have tagged on its exterior walls of racist remarks and swastikas. After passing the gate, the unknown drew swastikas and wrote "Sieg Heil" ...
  3 days ago

• Another flight disrupted by a group of Muslims

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  by Doug Hagmann It happened again on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, less than a month after the incident aboard AirTran Flight 297. United Airlines Flight 227, scheduled to depart Denver International Airport at 1:50 pm Wednesday for Los Angeles was disrupted when several passengers who were described as Middle ...
  4 days ago

• France: Court bans anti-mosque leaflets

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  France: Court bans anti-mosque leaflets A court banned Frances anti-immigrant National Front party from giving out leaflets attacking plans to build a giant mosque because they used pictures of it without permission. The ruling was to protect the architects intellectual property, but also came at a sensitive ...
  6 days ago

• Austrians oppose minaret ban, Italians want one

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Austrians oppose minaret ban, Italians want one For more surveys on minaret bans in Europe see: * Belgium: Majority oppose mosques and minarets * France: 41% oppose more mosques, 46% oppose minarets * More polls on minaret bans These surveys dont ask the same questions so its not simple to compare them, but I ...
  6 days ago

• Quote: Freedom of worship for Ahmadis

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Quote: Freedom of worship for Ahmadis This story came up almost two years ago, and when a reader sent me a tip on it , I thought it was the same old story . Turns out its the final result. The Ahmadis were trying to build a mosque in Walsall, and the Muslim community joined in the fight against it. They ...
  1 week ago

• France: Muslims must be discreet about faith

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  France: Muslims must be discreet about faith Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the debate over immigration today with a warning to Muslims to practise their religion discreetly or face rejection by moderate Islam in France. The President voiced sympathy for Swiss voters who opted last week to ban minarets as he tried to ...
  1 week ago

• London: Police will protect the mosque - stay away

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  London: Police will protect the mosque - stay away THE Home Secretary has issued a plea to the people of Harrow to stay away from planned protests in Wealdstone this Sunday. Alan Johnson MP said the best thing for residents to do is to stay away from Harrow Central Mosque and leave marshalling of anti-fascist ...
  1 week ago

• News in Short

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  News in Short Catching up on more stories.. Denmark Fired for racist remarks - Diana Brälye (34), a police agent, was fired for writing racist posts on her blog. She referred to Pakistanis as "Fucking Perkers" (Perker = derogatory term for Pakistanis) in a post in February, 2008, when schools all over the ...
  1 week ago

• France: Minarets are urban planning issue, says PM

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  France: Minarets are urban planning issue, says PM France will not follow Switzerlands lead and ban the construction of minarets as long as the towers blend in with the surroundings, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Friday. "There are very few minarets in France and they must necessarily blend in with the ...
  1 week ago

• News in Short

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  News in Short Netherlands Most popular last names - among immigrants are Yilmaz, Nguyen and Ali. Among ethnic Dutch: De Jong, Jansen and De Vries. ( NL ) Supporting prostitution windows - Two Muslim parliament members Fatma Koser Kaya (D66) and Naïma Azough (Greens), object to closing down prostitution ...
  1 week ago

• More polls on minaret bans

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  More polls on minaret bans According to various polls, Danes would support a minaret ban; the Dutch, Norwegians and Finns would oppose it; and the Germans are divided on the issue. It is hard to judge what the result would look like if people really had the option to vote on it, but it is clear that such a measure ...
  1 week ago

• Another Muslim Hijacking Dry Run?: If True, Tedd Petruna’s My New Hero

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 669
  By Debbie Schlussel****  SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE  ****I begin with the caveat that I don’t know whether or not this is true.  However, it certainly sounds like it is, and the guy-Tedd J. Petruna of NASA–has his e-mail address and home and work phone numbers plastered all over the internet as does his friend, A. ...
  1 week ago

• US: 13 Muslims Practice “Dry Run” aboard AirTran Flight 297, Media Silence

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 552
  Canada Free Press… H/T Vlad TepesSecurity incident aboard AirTran Flight 297 suggests terror “Dry Run”Practicing the next hijack or just ’striking terror in the hearts of the infidels’...
  1 week ago

• More Muslim responses to minaret ban vote

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  More Muslim responses to minaret ban vote A roundup of responses. See also Minaret Vote: Muslim reactions Austria Austria’s Islamic community has bemoaned the Swiss minaret referendum result this weekend. (..) Omar Al-Rawi, the Austrian Islamic Community’s integration consultant, said yesterday ...
  1 week ago

• France: 41% oppose more mosques, 46% oppose minarets

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  France: 41% oppose more mosques, 46% oppose minarets The polls appear to have contradictory results, but I think the numbers actually match. The BVA poll shows 55% against a minaret ban and 45% supporting it. The Ifop poll shows 40% opposing a minaret ban, but 14% with no opinion, and 46% supporting it. An ...
  1 week ago

• Germany: Muslims must show restraint with mosques

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Germany: Muslims must show restraint with mosques Following a controversial Swiss referendum to ban mosques with minarets, Christian Democratic state interior ministers in Germany on Thursday recommended Muslims show restraint when building houses of worship. “Naturally the Muslims in Germany have a right ...
  1 week ago

• Bradford: Mosque raises £5,000 for flood victims

  
  Islam in Europe — Authority: 547
  Bradford: Mosque raises £5,000 for flood victims The generosity of members of a Bradford mosque has been praised by organisers of flood relief in hard-hit Cumbria. More than 1,000 Muslims at Thornbury’s Madni Mosque had a whip round and raised £5,000 for people whose homes were flooded. And £1,000 of ...
  1 week ago

• A road to Hajj from Xi’an, China – Parts 1 and 2 video

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  A video news report from Al Jazeera English as it follows Chinese Muslims as they prepare to undertake the Hajj pilgrimage. The Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest meeting site of the Islamic religion. The Hajj is currently the largest annual pilgrimage in the world and is the fifth pillar of Islam, a moral ...
  2 weeks ago

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