Sexual Harassment in Egypt
Confronting a Pressing Social Problem. According to a study, 98 percent of the foreign women and 83 percent of the Egyptian women have at some point been subject to sexual

This week the ISN takes a closer look at the enormous challenges facing Saudi Arabia on both its domestic and foreign policy fronts. The world is watching to see how the Middle East's largest country

Maghreb imams and other experts on Islam are reacting with everything from doubt to cautious optimism about a fatwa against terrorism issued by a prominent Pakistan-born religious scholar.

The 600-page fatwa, which was issued in London on Tuesday (March 2nd) by Dr. Muhammad Tahir Qadri, says "hellfire" awaits suicide bombers, and categorically rejects attacks that kill innocent people.

"We used to feel awkward when passing Warung Kaleng in Sampay, a hangout for dangdut with their revealing dresses. Now we find it hard to recognize prostitutes because most dress decently like we do,

So now standing up for the rights of women and non-Muslims, the freedom of speech (yes -- here is a post on those who claim that he opposes it), and the freedom of conscience is fascist.

Our Flemish correspondent VH has compiled a report about massive voting fraud during the recent municipal elections in Rotterdam, mainly in immigrant neighborhoods. His account reminds me of what

It is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. A cause for celebration? Yes and no. Women's emancipation will not progress as fast in the next 100 years as it has in the past century. In many cases it might even regress.

With Germany lacking schools of Islamic theology, Muslim congregations have long imported religious leaders. As Germany considers steps to create more homegrown imams, countries like

A herd of 70 dissatisfied pigs invaded Quick Halal Villeurbanne on Sunday morning. They intended to protest against the decision to remove the bacon burger and cons of the new offer Quick who now

A programme of events kicks off today designed to allow staff and students to get to know members of Imperial’s student Islamic Society better, from a faith based version of the Weakest Link to a

Jakarta - A delegation of young Indonesian Muslim leaders have left for Australia on a bilateral exchange program.
An Australian Embassy media release made available to Antara on

One year ago, in a speech before the Turkish parliament, President Obama declared "We are not at war with Islam." Basically, he said that our concerns were confined to al Qaeda.

ENSCHEDE - Immigrant voters provided important support for Labour (PvdA) in Wednesday's local elections, but this support is now causing unrest among PvdA council members who are losing their

In Paris, sixty activists of Ni Putes ni Soumises made an early start on International Women's Dyy by marching with liberty caps in the place de la République, and then symbolically covering the statue

Copenhagen – A majority of Danes are opposed to the apology the daily Politiken made last month to Muslims for possibly offending them by reproducing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in 2008,

Following calls in several European countries to ban Islamic head-to-toe veils, Germany's interior minister said he was "cautious" about the idea of outlawing headscarves in the face of a possible backlash.