For about eight months, the Irish singer, Sinead O’Connor , has converted to the Muslim religion. For the first time, the 52-year-old former Irish singing star talks about it in an American media.
The rate of radicalization in the police, gendarmerie, the army and the national education system is very low in France, despite the persistence of the threat. This is what a parliamentary report has just revealed. However, progress is to be hoped for in the health sector, transport and in prison environments, the same document notes.
Gunshots were fired at worshippers in a mosque located in the Pontanézen district of Brest. It was in the middle of the afternoon on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Two people were hit, including the imam.
Increasingly, the number of people who identify as "non-religious" in the Arab world is increasing, as is the desire to leave their country. This is revealed by a recent survey published by BBC News Arabic, taken up by Le Monde. The same study also shows that the majority of these people have a negative opinion of Donald Trump’s United States, as well as political leaders in general.
In an interview published by the French weekly Le Point on June 13, the Imam of Bordeaux, Tareq Oubrou , discussed certain crucial points that every Muslim must take into account.
It was necessary to reconcile the wish of the Muslims of the city of Zoetermeer, in the center of the Netherlands (located 12 km from The Hague), and that of the nearby residents who did not want to be disturbed by the call to prayer 5 times a day. This will be done via an application, installed on the smartphone.
Paul Pogba, whose departure from Manchester United for a return to Juventus Turin is announced, has in an interview with The Times, made very powerful statements about Islam and racism in sport.
Toni Roderic, one of the leaders of the Spanish Green party, becomes Jamal. He came to Morocco last weekend. And he went to visit the Zawiya Boutchichiya.
The safe containing the donations of the faithful of the mosque on Rue Maxime-Gorki, in Le Blanc-Mesnil, was stolen by an unknown person. It contained between 10,000 and 12,000 euros and not 90,000 euros as could be read on social networks.
To protest against the internal regulations of swimming pools that they consider "discriminatory", Muslim women supported by the "Alliance citoyenne" collective organized a "burkini operation" last Friday, May 17, in a municipal pool in Grenoble (southeast of France).
The French Senate this week adopted an amendment that bans religious symbols during school outings. The initiators of this amendment specifically target Muslim women wearing veils.
The Spanish magazine "Atalayar entre dos orillas" in its latest issue of April has devoted two articles to the visit made, at the end of last March, to Morocco by Pope Francis, at the invitation of King Mohammed VI. For the magazine, this historic visit only "confirms the Moroccan exception" which has among its objectives the promotion of tolerance and interreligious dialogue.