The Dutch parliament has approved a motion to revoke a law that makes insulting God a crime. Free speech activists say the move represents a significant victory at a time when Muslim groups are stepping up pressure on European governments to criminalize the criticism of Islam and/or Mohammed.
Saudi Arabia has officially opened the doors of a controversial new “interreligious and intercultural dialogue center” in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
Muslim immigrants in a town near Copenhagen have forced the cancellation of traditional Christmas displays this year even while spending lavishly on the Islamic Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan.
Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, has concluded an “historic treaty” with its Muslim communities that grants Muslims broad new rights and privileges but does little to encourage their integration into German society.
A radical Islamic group has applied for a permit to build one of the largest mosques in the world in London.
Two Muslim politicians have vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium after winning municipal elections in the capital Brussels on October 14.
Research data provides empirical evidence that Islam is well on its way to overtaking Roman Catholicism as the dominant religion in France.
Spanish police have arrested six members of an al-Qaeda cell in Barcelona that was dedicated to providing a related terrorist cell in Germany with large numbers of stolen passports.
An Islamist radical convicted of stabbing two German police officers during a protest against “offensive” cartoons has been sentenced to six years in prison.
The Obama Administration has named Salam al-Marayati, a radical Muslim, as its official representative to the OSCE’s premier conference on human rights.
A successful push for independence in the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia would lead to the establishment of a country with the third-largest percentage of Muslims in Western Europe, just behind France and Belgium, and far ahead of Britain and Germany.
A German court has refused to allow a Muslim student to skip co-ed swimming lessons based on her religious beliefs.
