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Shada Islam , 21 Jan 2010
Addressing Europe’s unease about accepting multiple identities, a recent Gallup poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Muslims...
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--, 20 Jan 2010
France continues to debate on whether to ban from public places the burqa and its Arab equivalent, the niqab, the full head-to-toe Islamic veil.
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--, 13 Jan 2010
Britain is set to ban a Muslim group that recently caused outrage by proposing a demonstration in the town that receives the bodies of British war dead killed abroad, the Home Office said Sunday.
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Ali Bulac, 26 Dec 2009
The main theme of the referendum in Switzerland was “No to minarets, no to Shariah, no to the burqa and therefore no to Muslims and the religion of Islam.”
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Charles Bremner in Berne, 28 Nov 2009
After keeping invaders at bay for two centuries the Swiss are about to vote on what many see as the enemy within: their growing minority of Muslims.
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William A. Cook , 20 Nov 2009
This week the British people listened to the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne present, on Channel 4, his devastating account of the Jewish lobby’s control of their government.
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Maidhc Ó Cathail , 29 Oct 2009
One of the most important of the more than 60 organizations that make up “the Lobby” is the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
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Ray Smith , 28 Oct 2009
The initiative 'Against the construction of minarets' was submitted last year by a committee of politicians from the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP)...
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--, 26 Oct 2009
The more time you spend with Christopher Caldwell and his all-over-the-map musings on his conviction that we should all be afraid, very afraid,...
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Sabina Niksic , 23 Oct 2009
While Bosnia’s official Islamic Community, led by Mustafa Ceric, focused on mainstream politics, Wahhabi activists preached to all those who felt neglected by society...
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Simon Kuper , 10 Oct 2009
True, the mélange of Belleville isn’t the whole story of Islam in France. Take the train an hour west of Paris to the poor town of Dreux, and you see something...
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Robert Dreyfuss , 20 Sep 2009
For decades, AIPAC—together with Washington's broader Israel lobby, which distributed more than $22 million in campaign contributions during the last election cycle...
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Marc Leijendekker , 19 Sep 2009
In Germany the number of immigrants grew from 3 million in 1971 to 7.5 million in 2000, but the number of immigrants with jobs remained more or less equal, at around 2 million.
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Salim Nazzal , 08 Sep 2009
In the wake of the crisis after a Swedish newspaper revealed the heinous, and criminal activity, of Israel which has been harvesting organs and body parts from murdered Palestinians and selling them on to the USA...
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Fjordman, 07 Sep 2009
According to Acocella, "The Muslims came to Europe, he writes, as 'the forward wave of civilization that was, by comparison with that of its enemies,...
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--, 06 Sep 2009
However, he is still being investigated separately for inciting hatred against Muslims by making statements comparing Islam to Nazism.
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Ben Piven , 06 Sep 2009
The trouble the French may want to worry about is not the burqa as it is worn in France today, but that such a ban, as the headscarf ban has done,...
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Steven Erlanger, 02 Sep 2009
It is a measure of France’s confusion about Islam and its own Muslim citizens that in the political furor here over “banning the burqa,” as the argument goes, the garment at issue is not really the burqa at all, but the niqab.
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--, 22 Aug 2009
Furthermore, he says, the mass importation of Muslims at a time when Europe has lost its own faith and Islam has developed a dangerous and powerful radicalism threatens the very freedom of Europe.
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Tiberge , 21 Aug 2009
The mosque of Puteaux, like so many places of worship in France, is experiencing problems every Friday, a day of heavy attendance. Friday is a special day for Muslims.
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Tim Rutten , 19 Aug 2009
Unsurprisingly, therefore, Caldwell accepts Samuel P. Huntington's concept of the "clash of civilizations" and puts Western Europe on what the Harvard scholar characterized as Islam's perpetually "bloody borders."
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Pankaj Mishra , 18 Aug 2009
Is Europe about to be overrun by Muslims? A number of prominent European and American politicians and journalists seem to think so.
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Bruce B. Lawrence , 15 Aug 2009
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe tells of a tide of Muslim immigration ravaging European culture, and threatening the future of Western civilization.
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Haroon Moghul , 14 Aug 2009
That he prefers argument by culture, metaphysics, and identity reveals a deep anxiety among even the most privileged, a sign that capital and its inherent desire to destabilize have unmoored and unsteadied every part of the world.
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Isabelle de Pommereau , 11 Aug 2009
The mosque has been a controversial topic in the country since it was first discussed in 2001 and only won construction approval last year.
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Claire Berlinski , 09 Aug 2009
He does not argue that there is a monolithic Islamic identity or a single set of European values, although it is inevitable that he will be accused of this. He argues rather that there is enough of an Islamic identity,...
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Jason Burke in Paris and Ian Traynor in Brussels , 27 Jul 2009
The dire predictions of religious and identity-based mayhem reached their peak between 2004 and 2006, when bombs exploded in Madrid and London,...
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William Underhill , 21 Jul 2009
Coming up with a reasonable estimate for the percentage of Muslims now living in Europe, let alone making projections for the future, is a virtually impossible task.
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Bruce Crumley , 27 Jun 2009
Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. "Today ... we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing the burqa, which covers and fully envelops the body...
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Emanuele Ottolenghi , 06 May 2009
Related to the success of the above vision is the answer to a pressing question in Europe today: what identity will Euro-Muslims ultimately embrace? Varied geographic origins still account for marked differences among them, but as time passes their ties with their lands of origin could fade.