Last month the All Faiths Network hosted an interfaith forum concerning governmental and institutional responses to religious extremism. The debate explored critical issues, including suggestions that Government subsidies to interfaith bodies are failing to improve relations between faith communities. It was suggested that some bodies had been hijacked by unrepresentative cliques with links to extremist factions. The meeting also emphasised the…
Home Secretary Teresa May has announced new measures to be taken by the Extremism Analysis Unit to combat extremism. In a speech at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in London she said the Unit would “help us to develop a new engagement policy – which will set out clearly for the first time with which…
The Austrian parliament has passed a Bill requiring a standardised German translation of the Qur’an, and banning both foreign imams and foreign funding for Islam in the country. The far-right party in Austria wanted the bill, which amends a 1912 Act recognising Islam in the country, to also require sermons to be spoken in German and to…
A Comres survey for the BBC of 1000 British Muslims published today finds that more than two in five (46{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115}) feel that being a Muslim in Britain is difficult due to prejudice against Islam. The survey found an overwhelming majority (95{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115}) feel a loyalty to the country, while only 6{286427c60984e496d8f2e542e7d21c54ddb5734529e6fb3e21d1c17283afa115} say they feel a disloyalty….
SOURCE: Online Athens: American Muslims often get the kind of treatment once reserved for blacks and Jews, dehumanized groups that also were the victims of racial and ethnic prejudice and violence, according to University of Georgia religion professor Alan Godlas. But what many of us Americans think about Muslims stems from misinformation, from outright lies…
