Headscarf news A summary of several recent stories about headscarves in Europe. ... Vienna: First headscarf-wearing tram driver Vienna public-transport agency...
Netherlands: PVV leading in polls If elections in the Netherlands were held today, The Party for Freedom (PVV) of Geert Wilders would be the biggest party,...
Kiev: Mecca night club renamed Chian reports the name change was made just before the grand opening. ... According to Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya, in Kiev, No...
Norway: 'Fighting radical Islam is like fighting Nazism, Communism' Head of the Progress Party (Frp) Siv Jensen thinks that the fight against radical Islam is...
Netherlands: Germany doing a better job integrating Moroccans Germany gets better results with integration of Moroccans than the Netherlands. According to...
Norway: Muslim girls beaten for not wearing the hijab Muslim girls who don't wear the hijab all the time are beaten, says Gerd Fleischer, of Self-Help for...
Greece: More Muslim pupils in schools“At last, I too can learn Greek,” a 7-year-old shouted in Turkish. The child, a member of the Muslim community in...
Russia: Ministry of Justice claims infringements by Council of Muftis See also: Is Moscow Trying to Create a Single 'Power Vertical' in Russian Islam?...
Quote"It is an excuse for terrorists, but also for youth to raise hell. Not only in the Netherlands, but in whole of Europe you see that. Calls to a new...
Copenhagen: Hells Angels, Immigrants must clean up their act Meanwhile, police in Sweden are concerned that the immigrant/biker gang wars are spilling over...
Chechnya: Leader imposes strict Islamic code With support of Russia, apparently. ... The president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at a mosque and...
Bulgaria: Muslims coerced into fundamentalism Despite Bulgaria's European Union membership, some regions of the country need a second liberation from Ottoman...
Berlin: Concern about increase in anti-police violence Last year the number of cases where policemen were resisted increased by three percent to 3,371 cases....
Italy: Muslims seek to build future in Italy On one side of a drab street in working-class Milan, a squat structure houses a conservative mosque linked in the...
Antwerp: Muslim attacks Jews According to the Belga news agency, the man spoke a foreign language, but it's unclear which. According to one victim he spoke...
Oslo: Council rejects Muslim school proposal A majority in Oslo municipal council, consisting of the Labor Party (Ap), Socialist Left Party (SV), Red and...
Switzerland: House of Representatives votes against minaret ban The House of Representatives has come out against a proposal by rightwing political parties to...
Denmark: New site against virginity operations Muslim girls who had premarital sex often have an operation so it looks like their hymen is intact. They are...
Trondheim: Hijab debate leading to anti-Muslim campaign The heated hijab debate is now hurting Muslim women and children, says the Muslim Society in Trondheim,...
Sweden: The best Muslim state ... "The best Islamic state is Sweden!" says local politician and imam Adly Abu Hajal (Moderate Party). All the important, basic...
Austria: New mosque, no minaret There will be an Islamic prayer house in Nenzing, Vorarlberg with an area of 650 square metres but without a dome or a minaret....
Norway: County to adapt swimming classes for Muslim girls The education director of the Aust-Agder county in Norway decided that Muslim students will not be...
Russia: Halal system certified The Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology has registered Halal System which identifies the compliance of food ...
Denmark: Fear of ethnic riots With forty shootings and three dead, the gang-war in Copenhagen is causing concerns that it would escalate into ethnic riots. ...
IslamOnline.net launches a German Muslim Folder IslamOnline.net's European Muslims Page has launched a new folder focusing on issues that affects the German...
France: Families of Algerian imam threatened with expulsion Several Imams serving through mosques across French towns, who were appointed by the Algerian...
Berlin: First school for Muslim imams Germany's first private institute for the education of Muslim Imams will open soon in Berlin's Karlshorst neighbourhood. ...
Oslo: Muslim discriminated for religious reasons A real estate agent in Oslo wanted to appraise an apartment. But when the owner found out that the agent was...
Netherlands: Insulting Islam doesn't automatically insult all Muslims Whoever insults Islam doesn't automatically offend all Muslims too, according to a...