A new ban on foreign-appointed imams in France is aimed at combating Islamist separatism, but the policy risks making matters worse by handing future decisions about hiring imams over to local groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The French
After years of allowing Hamas operatives to operate on German soil, German security services officials have declared a leading activist, Majed Al-Zeer, to be a central "Hamas representative in Germany." The designation was made public in December,
The gulf between understanding Islam in theory and in practice is wide and telling. Based on the findings of a recent study, what western peoples think of Islam when relying on secondhand information from the powers-that-be (the media, the political
Katharine Birbalsingh, known as "Britain s strictest headteacher", has just been forced to ban Muslim prayers at her school after teachers were attacked. This time we are in London. The head teacher ended up in the High Court in a lawsuit brought by