An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it “no longer corresponds to today’s multicultural Switzerland.”
The French government has enacted a new law prohibiting Muslims from praying in the streets. But on the first day of the ban hundreds of Muslims defied the law by taking over streets and sidewalks in Paris and other French cities to pray.
An Islamic Sharia law court has been established in Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium.
The Greek Parliament has approved a controversial plan to build a taxpayer-funded mega-mosque in Athens.
