The Great Mosque of Paris and three founding federations of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) are definitively withdrawing from the body. They cite the one-way management of the CFCM for some time.
At the call of several organizations and civil society, a rally was organized this Sunday on the Place de la République in Paris, to "alert national and international public opinion against the "separatism" law and the Islamophobic practices it will reinforce.
Is Tariq Ibn Ziyad originally from Morocco or Algeria? The controversy has been reignited after the announcement of the broadcast by MBC during Ramadan of a TV series on the main actor of the Muslim conquest of Andalusia.
Moroccan writer Asma Lamrabet said Thursday, during a videoconference seminar organized on the occasion of International Women’s Day, that the fulfillment of women in Muslim countries depends on the reformist and feminist reading of Islam. She believes that this reform could be carried out through the implementation of an "ethico-spiritual" reading of Islam that breaks with the traditional patriarchal reading, which has led to "deep discriminatory religious practice" towards women.
Between fear of a new lockdown and the risk of contamination, Moroccans are wondering whether the Tarawih prayer will be performed in mosques during Ramadan in these times of Covid-19. Even though the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is in full swing, the risks of contamination are not negligible.
The Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) informs the faithful of the slight easing in the practice of worship, particularly funerals in these times of Covid-19. The decision was made last Friday in the Concertation Committee by the federal government and the governments of the federated entities.
Islam will be taught in six public schools in Catalonia. The regional government intends to extend it to other establishments from the next school year.
From now on, the wearing of the full veil is prohibited in Switzerland. 52% of citizens approved this initiative this Sunday by vote, according to the projections of the gags.bern institute.
In France, 89 mosques suspected of "separatism" will be subject to a control after the entry into force of the law "strengthening respect for the principles of the Republic" which provides for an expansion of the grounds for closing places of worship. This announcement was made by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
More than half of high school students in France have no problem with wearing religious symbols at school and even in the civil service. This is revealed by a poll whose results published by Le Parisien demonstrate a strong expectation of high school students in terms of tolerance and freedom.
Ill-intentioned individuals vandalized and burned, in the early morning of Sunday, February 21, the Assafwa mosque, in the heart of the San Francisco neighborhood in San Javier, where there is a large Muslim community. The local police managed to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers.
The surroundings of the Brussels Central Station recorded on Sunday an unusual demonstration that mobilized representatives of the Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths. They are asking the authorities to ease the measures affecting places of worship, which remain, despite the health crisis situation, a real obstacle to freedom of worship.