New York Times As Khalif Samantar knelt for afternoon prayers at the Eskilstuna Islamic Dawa Center on Christmas Day, he sensed a growing heat and a low, rushing sound coming from a nearby hallway. He focused his mind on the ritual, only to realize seconds later that someone was shouting, […]
International Business Times Sweden’s government is planning to develop a new national strategy to counter the growing prejudice against Islam in the country, according to Alice Bah Kuhnke, Swedish minister of culture and democracy. Kuhnke said at a Stockholm protest rally against the spate of attacks on mosques […]
BBC A Roma baby girl has been denied a burial space by a French mayor, sparking outrage among activists. The girl, who died on Christmas Day, reportedly of sudden infant death syndrome, was refused burial in Champlan, south of Paris. The mayor said priority had to be given […]
It’s funny because many Islamophobes in the west are silent about this, particularly your right wing Christian types. If it was Muslims doing this, they would be outraged and writing or speaking about it, but since it has nothing to do with Muslims clamping down on Christians, they’re […]
Interesting article, written from a non-Muslim source. Spiritfoods It is a well-known fact that several religious texts forbid the eating of pork. According to Leviticus, the third book of Judaism’s Torah and Christianity’s Old Testament, pork is an “unclean” meat since pigs do not “chew the cud.” Meanwhile, […]
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