The year 2010 has started off as a difficult one for Muslim-European relations. Switzerland’s 29 November referendum banning the construction of minarets is still producing an outcry in the country

While studying abroad in the French city of Strasbourg in 2007, I decided to grow a bushy beard. Little did I know that in France only traditional Jewish and Muslim

MP Sayed Askar, member of the MB Parliamentary bloc and the Religious Committee in the Egyptian Parliament has stressed that the future of Islam in Switzerland will be bright ,

The group Islam4UK had planned to hold a demonstration in a British town in homage to the Muslim lives lost in Afghanistan at the hands of the British army. After

A question worries Europe: is Islam inherently expansionist and out to conquer the world? Yes, say those Swiss who voted against the construction of minarets.

WHEN news emerged of the life-story of the Nigerian who tried to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, there were cries of bewilderment in some

MP Mohsen Rady, of the Muslim Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc and the Press and Culture Committee in Parliament, strongly refused the Ministry of Information's decision to allow the broadcasting of the

The legitimation of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant bigotry in the European mainstream has allowed formerly ostracized far-right Neo-Nazi and Fascist-oriented groups to present themselves as respectable political movements.

He is one of the most outspoken intellectuals today in Europe who is dismissed as too modern by the orthodox and too traditional by secularists. Meet Tariq Ramadan, 47, a

With all the recent news of bombings and violence in parts of the Muslim world