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Norway Massacre: The Outcome of Hate or the Beginning?

Downtown Oslo, Norway now resembles one of many war-torn streets around the world; blasted buildings, blown out windows, shattered glass, death and destruction. This is not war-time; however, there is

European council votes in favor of niqab

A decree has been passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe's human rights warning governments of forbidding Muslim women to don the niqab in public.

A Conversation With Tariq Ramadan

European campaigns to ban burqas, the Swiss vote to bar new construction of minarets and attempted terrorist acts in the United States have renewed questions and concerns about the compatibility

Belgium moves towards public ban of niqab and burka

Belgium is preparing to impose a nationwide ban on the niqab, or the face-covering veil.

Poland demonstrates Islamophobic sentiments

The Muslim League in Poland's plans of the building of a modern, three-story mosque near the centre of Warsaw has been met by angry Poles.

Open Letter to Islamophobe Dutch MP Geert Wilders

Ok, you don’t like Muslims. Yet they are not going to go away. Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were

French mayor: Halal restaurant is discrimination

A French council has filed a complaint against a fast food chain that uses only halal meat in its burgers.

Homegrown Radicals: Complacency is not an Option

An army major at Fort Hood guns down fellow soldiers, five young men arrested after traveling to Pakistan to join radical elements, a coffee vendor charged in a New York

Stop the politicisation of Islam in Switzerland

The year 2010 has started off as a difficult one for Muslim-European relations. Switzerland’s 29 November referendum banning the construction of minarets is still producing an outcry in the country

The Myth of Muslim Conquest

A question worries Europe: is Islam inherently expansionist and out to conquer the world? Yes, say those Swiss who voted against the construction of minarets.